{"id":1829,"date":"2009-12-18T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/wisdom-in-carnage\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T10:13:00","slug":"wisdom-in-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/wisdom-in-carnage.html","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom in Carnage"},"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><span><\/span>I\u2019ll be frantically grading between now and next Tuesday, like so many others in academia. The best gem in an exam thus far was a student who wrote that the Gospel of John presents Jesus as \u201cWisdom in carnage.\u201d I will assume that the student meant \u201cWisdom incarnate\u201d \u2013 but you never know.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the blogosphere, the \u201cPoor Joseph\u201d ad has been getting a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/pcnvictoria.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/of-interest-christmas-billboard-at.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">attention<\/a> \u2013 the most recent is from <a href=\"http:\/\/irobyn.com\/?p=563\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tana Ganeva<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/jcbaker.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/18\/progressive-church-shakes-up-story-of-jesus%e2%80%99-birth\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">J. C. Baker<\/a>) entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/bloggers\/www.alternet.org\/144643\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">God\u2019s Divine Sperm?<\/a>\u201c. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleverbadger.net\/?p=951\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clever Badger<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleverbadger.net\/?p=979\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new gig<\/a>, having taken charge of the <a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingcreationism.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/originally-posted-at-clever-badger.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Debunking Creationism<\/a> site (he gets the ball rolling with a post about Kent Hovind\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/12\/read_for_yourself_kent_hovinds.php?utm_source=mostactive&amp;utm_medium=link\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">doctoral dissertation<\/a>\u201d which famously begins with the words \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikileaks.org\/wiki\/Young-earth_creationist_Kent_Hovind%27s_doctoral_dissertation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hello, my name is Kent Hovind<\/a>\u201c\u2026).<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a good post by A. J. Jacobs (author of <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible\/dp\/0743291484?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Year of Living Biblically<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0743291484\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px\" width=\"1\"><\/span>) on whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandreligiontoday.com\/2009\/12\/18\/how-important-is-it-for-everyone-to-know-whats-in-the-bible-a-j-jacobs-answers\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">it is important for everyone to know what\u2019s in the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also integrated the Amazon Associates program into Blogger \u2013 a new feature they offer. It doesn\u2019t just give you direct access to product links, but also updates the feature bar at the top of the blog post\u00a0editing\u00a0frame,\u00a0in ways that so far have made a good first impression!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5885239602006400926?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be frantically grading between now and next Tuesday, like so many others in academia. The best gem in an exam thus far was a student who wrote that the Gospel of John presents Jesus as \u201cWisdom in carnage.\u201d I will assume that the student meant \u201cWisdom incarnate\u201d \u2013 but you never know. 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