{"id":1974,"date":"2009-11-01T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/exclusivity-and-the-name-of-god\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T22:10:00","slug":"exclusivity-and-the-name-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/exclusivity-and-the-name-of-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Exclusivity and the Name of God"},"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>Brian LePort has offered <a href=\"http:\/\/nearemmaus.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/01\/why-%ce%b8%ce%b5%cf%8c%cf%82-not-%d7%99%d7%94%d7%95%d7%94-further-thoughts-on-christianity-and-islam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his reply<\/a> in our continuing conversation about Islam, Christianity, and God or gods.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-878247452512274334?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian LePort has offered his reply in our continuing conversation about Islam, Christianity, and God or gods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Exclusivity and the Name of God<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Brian LePort has offered his reply in our continuing conversation about Islam, Christianity, and God or gods.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/exclusivity-and-the-name-of-god.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Exclusivity and the Name of God\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brian LePort has offered his reply in our continuing conversation about Islam, Christianity, and God or gods.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/exclusivity-and-the-name-of-god.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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