{"id":25953,"date":"2014-09-01T07:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=25953"},"modified":"2014-09-01T07:45:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:45:44","slug":"a-bible-misused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/09\/a-bible-misused.html","title":{"rendered":"A Bible Misused"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-25955\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/08\/A-Bible-used-as-a-weapon-against-other-people-quote-2.png\" alt=\"A Bible used as a weapon against other people quote 2\" width=\"431\" height=\"536\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #37188a\">A Bible used as a weapon against other human beings, is always a Bible misused.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/krwordgazer.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/matthew-18-and-spiritual-abuse.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent post by Kristen Rosser<\/a> ended with a phrase that was so quotable, that I made it into two meme images. 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