{"id":2958,"date":"2010-02-17T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/unreasonable-faith-and-jesus-existence\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T10:33:00","slug":"unreasonable-faith-and-jesus-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/unreasonable-faith-and-jesus-existence.html","title":{"rendered":"Unreasonable Faith and Jesus&#8217; Existence"},"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>If you\u2019re not getting a sufficient dose of mythicism and the historical figure of Jesus here, the discussion has spread to the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2010\/02\/17\/james-mcgrath-on-skepticism-and-the-historical-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Unreasonable Faith<\/a>. 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