{"id":26820,"date":"2014-10-23T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=26820"},"modified":"2014-10-23T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:14:04","slug":"dog-religion-cat-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/10\/dog-religion-cat-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Dog Religion, Cat Religion"},"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 class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26819\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/10\/wpid-Photo-20141021181414.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-Photo-20141021181414.jpg\" width=\"523\" height=\"640\"><\/div>\n<p>I laughed when I saw this meme, but I immediately also began to wonder whether it might not also lead to serious reflection. Are there religions which focus primarily outward, and others which focus primarily on the self? If so, would \u201cdog religion\u201d and \u201ccat religion\u201d be convenient shorthand for the distinction?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I laughed when I saw this meme, but I immediately also began to wonder whether it might not also lead to serious reflection. Are there religions which focus primarily outward, and others which focus primarily on the self? 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