{"id":27179,"date":"2014-11-15T08:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=27179"},"modified":"2014-11-15T08:20:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T13:20:36","slug":"far-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/11\/far-from-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Far from God"},"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 size-large wp-image-27180\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/11\/SMBC-far-from-God-340x1024.png\" alt=\"SMBC far from God\" width=\"340\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/?id=3542#comic\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon<\/a> illustrates nicely what the implications are of God in spatial terms, as a being rather than Being itself.<\/p>\n<p>On this one it is definitely worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/?id=3542#comic\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">clicking through<\/a> to read the additional panel that appears when you push the red button.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon illustrates nicely what the implications are of God in spatial terms, as a being rather than Being itself. 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