{"id":27906,"date":"2015-01-04T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=27906"},"modified":"2015-01-04T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:47:07","slug":"the-ideologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/01\/the-ideologue.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ideologue"},"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-27934\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/01\/McLauchlan-Ideologue-Quote-1024x576.png\" alt=\"McLauchlan Ideologue Quote\" width=\"428\" height=\"241\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ideologue has a singular cast of mind, one that needs bold rules and eschews nuances. Abundant examples exist of those who, devout in proselytising for one belief system, undergo an epiphany, and then reach in sudden disillusionment for a diametrically opposed but equally rigid creed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gordon McLauchlan, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143019635\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0143019635&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=2KWEPCB7T47BNEZW\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Great Tales from New Zealand History<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0143019635\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/em>,\u00a0(Auckland, David Bateman, 2014), p. 149.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/otagosh.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/quotable.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gavin Rumney<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe ideologue has a singular cast of mind, one that needs bold rules and eschews nuances. Abundant examples exist of those who, devout in proselytising for one belief system, undergo an epiphany, and then reach in sudden disillusionment for a diametrically opposed but equally rigid creed.\u201d Gordon McLauchlan, Great Tales from New Zealand History,\u00a0(Auckland, David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":27934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[2286,4081,4082,4963,4965,8082,9854],"class_list":["post-27906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamentalism-religion","tag-creed","tag-gordon-mclauchlan","tag-gordon-mclaughlan","tag-ideologue","tag-ideology","tag-new-zealand","tag-quote"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Ideologue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;The ideologue has a singular cast of mind, one that needs bold rules and eschews nuances. 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