{"id":20436,"date":"2014-01-06T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=20436"},"modified":"2014-01-06T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:23:08","slug":"selective-literalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/01\/selective-literalism.html","title":{"rendered":"Selective Literalism"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/01\/selective-literalism.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/01\/selective-literalism.png\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20438\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"378\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by an image I saw on Facebook, but which had a typo in it and thus could not simply be reposted as it was. 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