{"id":2664,"date":"2011-02-23T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/bibliobloggers-exegete-and-offer-theological-criticism-of-the-lolcat-bible\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:29:00","slug":"bibliobloggers-exegete-and-offer-theological-criticism-of-the-lolcat-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/bibliobloggers-exegete-and-offer-theological-criticism-of-the-lolcat-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"Bibliobloggers Exegete and offer Theological Criticism of the LOLcat Bible"},"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.amazon.com\/LOLcat-Bible-beginnin-Ceiling-stuffs\/dp\/1569757348?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=widgetsamazon-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LOLcat Bible: In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez an da Erfs n stuffs\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=1569757348&amp;tag=widgetsamazon-20\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrdkirk.com\/2011\/02\/23\/new-bible-translation\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daniel Kirk offers criticism of the sexism<\/a>\u00a0and other conservative tendencies in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/LOLcat-Bible-beginnin-Ceiling-stuffs\/dp\/1569757348?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=widgetsamazon-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">LOLCat Bible<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1569757348\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"> translation, while <a href=\"http:\/\/afistfuloffarthings.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/23\/lolcat-bible\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew Crowe\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1569757348\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\">thinks that its rendering of the Epistle \u201cto teh church in Glacier\u201d is awesome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I spoke LOLcat fluently enough to write this post in the appropriate dialect.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5250397992634279493?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Kirk offers criticism of the sexism\u00a0and other conservative tendencies in the LOLCat Bible translation, while Matthew Crowe\u00a0thinks that its rendering of the Epistle \u201cto teh church in Glacier\u201d is awesome. 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