{"id":2498,"date":"2009-02-12T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/02\/lady-hope-in-the-matrix\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T23:45:00","slug":"lady-hope-in-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/02\/lady-hope-in-the-matrix.html","title":{"rendered":"Lady Hope in the Matrix"},"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:\/\/blakeandamyjoinnorthcarolina.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reformed Baptist<\/a> pointed out to me an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbts.edu\/documents\/sbjt\/SBJT_2001Fall8.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">interesting article available online<\/a>, which tells of the connection between a <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.sbts.edu\/partner\/Article_Display_Page\/0,,PTID325566%7CCHID717902%7CCIID1992664,00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">famous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siteone.com\/religion\/baptist\/baptistpage\/Portraits\/robertson.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">scholar<\/a> of the Greek New Testament and the Lady Hope hoax claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/howardcosgrove.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/this-week-as-we-observed-darwins-200th.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Darwin<\/a> repented of the <a href=\"http:\/\/howardcosgrove.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/happy-birthday-now-drop-dead.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">theory<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/howardcosgrove.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/lives-of-evolutionary-saints.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">evolution<\/a>. The story also tells of a postcard from an individual who would later be a famous textual critic, which makes it worth reading all the way through to the very end.<\/p>\n<p>Also, apparently one of my recent posts is <a href=\"http:\/\/lingamish.com\/2009\/02\/13\/agent-mcgrath-is-purging-the-matrix\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">purging the Matrix<\/a>. Funny, in the movie Agent Smith tries to fill the Matrix with himself \u2013 which is not my aim in <em>this <\/em>world. There is, however, a closer resemblance to someone known to want to fill the world with <a href=\"http:\/\/lingapotamus.wordpress.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hippos<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4020819940682644809?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reformed Baptist pointed out to me an interesting article available online, which tells of the connection between a famous scholar of the Greek New Testament and the Lady Hope hoax claiming that Darwin repented of the theory of evolution. 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