{"id":17378,"date":"2013-09-08T20:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=17378"},"modified":"2013-09-08T20:50:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T00:50:32","slug":"circular-sea-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/09\/circular-sea-lion.html","title":{"rendered":"Circular Sea Lion"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/09\/wpid-Photo-Sep-8-2013-839-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/09\/wpid-Photo-Sep-8-2013-839-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"452\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/a-guide-to-fallacious-arguments-illustrated-with-funny-1273276162\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9<\/a> has shared illustrations of fallacious arguments with animals. Above is the one for circular reasoning, which obviously relates to how some use the Bible. <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/a-guide-to-fallacious-arguments-illustrated-with-funny-1273276162\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click through<\/a> to see the others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IO9 has shared illustrations of fallacious arguments with animals. Above is the one for circular reasoning, which obviously relates to how some use the Bible. 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