{"id":2538,"date":"2009-01-20T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/so-insignificant-so-special\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T10:12:00","slug":"so-insignificant-so-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/so-insignificant-so-special.html","title":{"rendered":"So Insignificant, So Special"},"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>The <a href=\"http:\/\/asbojesus.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/20\/632\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">latest cartoon from The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus<\/a> captures well how there can be different perspectives on the same evidence. 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