{"id":1613,"date":"2011-08-27T17:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T01:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2011-08-27T17:01:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T01:01:39","slug":"the-connection-between-hurricane-irene-and-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/the-connection-between-hurricane-irene-and-gay-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"The Connection Between Hurricane Irene and Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>There isn\u2019t one. But before someone predictably either blames Hurricane Irene\u2019s impact on New York on gay marriage, or fails to treat a last minute swerve of the hurricane away from the path of New York as indication of divine approval of gay marriage, I thought I would share this snarky poster, which says everything that needs to be said about the sort of image of God you end up with if you attribute forces of nature to a personal deity.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1594\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/2011\/08\/27\/the-connection-between-hurricane-irene-and-gay-marriage\/advice-god-hurricane\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1594\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2011\/08\/advice-god-hurricane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"310\"><\/a><br><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There isn\u2019t one. But before someone predictably either blames Hurricane Irene\u2019s impact on New York on gay marriage, or fails to treat a last minute swerve of the hurricane away from the path of New York as indication of divine approval of gay marriage, I thought I would share this snarky poster, which says everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,80],"tags":[3796,4005,4886,7937,8075],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-religion","tag-gay-marriage","tag-god","tag-hurricane-irene","tag-natural-disasters","tag-new-york"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Connection Between Hurricane Irene and Gay Marriage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There isn&#039;t one. 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