{"id":1954,"date":"2009-11-06T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/almost-a-literalist\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:04:00","slug":"almost-a-literalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/almost-a-literalist.html","title":{"rendered":"Almost a Literalist"},"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>I think this is one of the best cartoons on so-called Biblical literalism I have ever seen (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/more-bait-and-switch.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Experimental Theology<\/a>). 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