{"id":21112,"date":"2014-01-28T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=21112"},"modified":"2014-01-28T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T19:45:42","slug":"a-new-commandment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/01\/a-new-commandment.html","title":{"rendered":"A New Commandment"},"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 class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/01\/wpid-Photo-Jan-28-2014-946-AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/01\/wpid-Photo-Jan-28-2014-946-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"406\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/01\/ten-commandments-missed-opportunity.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">recently talked here<\/a> about the suggestion that the ten commandments were a missed opportunity to mention other important things. 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