{"id":25107,"date":"2014-07-05T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T19:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=25107"},"modified":"2014-07-05T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T19:06:19","slug":"religion-and-cola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/religion-and-cola.html","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Cola"},"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:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/religious-switching-and-metaphor\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Internet Monk shared<\/a> the image below depicting how religious affiliations change or remain the same, as well as some thoughts on the comparison someone recently made between modern Evangelicalism and  Caffeine Free Diet Coke. It made me think that the image below has the makings of a religious cola label of some sort. Since I am traveling, I don't have a way to tinker with the image, but if others do, feel free to share your \u201clabels.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-20140704160724.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-20140704160724.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Monk shared the image below depicting how religious affiliations change or remain the same, as well as some thoughts on the comparison someone recently made between modern Evangelicalism and Caffeine Free Diet Coke. 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