{"id":27866,"date":"2014-12-30T18:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=27866"},"modified":"2014-12-30T18:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:29:47","slug":"the-dark-knight-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/12\/the-dark-knight-of-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Knight of Faith"},"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-27868\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/12\/darkKnightKierkegaard1-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"darkKnightKierkegaard1\" width=\"479\" height=\"719\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-27867\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/12\/darkKnightKierkegaard2-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"darkKnightKierkegaard2\" width=\"476\" height=\"714\"><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/existentialcomics.com\/comic\/61\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Existential Comics<\/a> (who will explain the joke to you, if you don\u2019t get it).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Existential Comics (who will explain the joke to you, if you don\u2019t get it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":27868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,74,101],"tags":[958,1040,1625,2039,2440,3329,4871,6192,6252,12337],"class_list":["post-27866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-philosophy","category-theology","tag-bad-puns","tag-batman","tag-cartoon","tag-comic","tag-dark-knight","tag-faith","tag-humor","tag-kierkegaard","tag-knight","tag-teleological-suspension-of-the-ethical"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Dark Knight of Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From Existential Comics (who will explain the joke to you, if you don&#039;t get it).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/12\/the-dark-knight-of-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Dark Knight of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Existential Comics (who will explain the joke to you, if you don&#039;t get it).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/12\/the-dark-knight-of-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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