{"id":2076,"date":"2009-09-25T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/the-far-left-side\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T15:17:00","slug":"the-far-left-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/the-far-left-side.html","title":{"rendered":"The Far Left Side"},"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>\n<div>A blog I read shared a cartoon from a series called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Far Left Side<\/a><\/em>, and I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/6-8-09.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">found<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/7-22-09.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/7-15-09.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">related<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/7-17-09.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/5-29-09.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">religion<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/6-10-09.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">including<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/8-5-09.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this one<\/a>:\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/9-23-09.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/9-23-09.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>this one:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/8-5-09.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/8-5-09.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>this one:<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/8-31-09.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/8-31-09.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>and this one:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/7-13-09.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2009\/7-13-09.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>There are even more that relate to health care and insurance. There are some that are offensive (probably to just about anyone and everyone who might read them), but there are enough that are amusing and of potential use for educators talking about topics in religion, that I thought it worth sharing them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7956499244221247623?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog I read shared a cartoon from a series called The Far Left Side, and I found several related to religion, including this one: this one: this one: and this one: There are even more that relate to health care and insurance. 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