{"id":22677,"date":"2014-03-31T13:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T17:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=22677"},"modified":"2014-03-31T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T17:33:12","slug":"not-the-best-spokesperson-for-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/not-the-best-spokesperson-for-christianity.html","title":{"rendered":"Not the Best Spokesperson for Christianity"},"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\/03\/wpid-Photo-20140331133305.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/03\/wpid-Photo-20140331133305.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then again, the sign did get me to go look at their website and watch a bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/88607300\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">video<\/a>, and so if that was the aim, it worked\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then again, the sign did get me to go look at their website and watch a bit of a video, and so if that was the aim, it worked\u2026 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,91],"tags":[1880,1886,2451,3329],"class_list":["post-22677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-church","tag-church-sign","tag-darth-vader","tag-faith"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Not the Best Spokesperson for Christianity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Then again, the sign did get me to go look at their website and watch a bit of a video, and so if that was the aim, it worked...&nbsp;\" \/>\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\/2014\/03\/not-the-best-spokesperson-for-christianity.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Not the Best Spokesperson for Christianity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Then again, the sign did get me to go look at their website and watch a bit of a video, and so if that was the aim, it worked...&nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/not-the-best-spokesperson-for-christianity.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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