{"id":30032,"date":"2015-05-10T06:13:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=30032"},"modified":"2015-05-10T06:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T10:13:55","slug":"critic-of-the-domination-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/05\/critic-of-the-domination-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Critic of the Domination System"},"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-30033\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/Jesus-as-critic-of-social-domination-system.jpg\" alt=\"Jesus as critic of social domination system\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\"><\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t tracked down the exact source of the quotation, but\u00a0Borg discusses the domination system\u00a0of Jesus\u2019 time, and his relation to it, in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060730684\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0060730684&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=5PBDF44IO4HROCNW\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith<\/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=0060730684\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t tracked down the exact source of the quotation, but\u00a0Borg discusses the domination system\u00a0of Jesus\u2019 time, and his relation to it, in The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":30033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,75,163],"tags":[4660,5677,6985,8436,9593,10537,12197],"class_list":["post-30032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-jesus","category-politics","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-history","tag-jesus","tag-marcus-borg","tag-oppression","tag-progressive","tag-romans","tag-system"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Critic of the Domination System<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I haven&#039;t tracked down the exact source of the quotation, but\u00a0Borg discusses the domination system\u00a0of Jesus&#039; time, and his relation to it, in The Heart of\" \/>\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\/2015\/05\/critic-of-the-domination-system.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Critic of the Domination System\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I haven&#039;t tracked down the exact source of the quotation, but\u00a0Borg discusses the domination system\u00a0of Jesus&#039; time, and his relation to it, in The Heart of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/05\/critic-of-the-domination-system.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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