{"id":2322,"date":"2009-06-08T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/britons-and-the-resurrection\/"},"modified":"2009-06-08T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T14:05:00","slug":"britons-and-the-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/britons-and-the-resurrection.html","title":{"rendered":"Britons and the Resurrection"},"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=\"http:\/\/blog.newhumanist.org.uk\/2009\/06\/jesus-dead-person-british-people-would.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New Humanist<\/a> draws attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/5474600\/Jesus-and-Princess-Diana-lead-poll-of-dead-people-we-most-want-to-meet.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a poll in the British newspaper the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em><\/a> indicating that Jesus was the top dead person that those surveyed would like to meet if they had the chance, chosen by 1\/3 of those polled.<\/p>\n<p>No one seems to have noticed that, for conservative Christians at the very least, and for many moderate to liberal Christians as well, Jesus is <em>not considered a dead person<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>I find myself wondering how many of those who answered the poll in this way would also be among those complaining if their priest or bishop denied the resurrection\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4486173063650709727?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Humanist draws attention to a poll in the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph indicating that Jesus was the top dead person that those surveyed would like to meet if they had the chance, chosen by 1\/3 of those polled. 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