{"id":30721,"date":"2015-06-24T06:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T10:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=30721"},"modified":"2015-06-24T06:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T10:50:33","slug":"why-didnt-god-stop-the-church-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/06\/why-didnt-god-stop-the-church-shooting.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t God Stop the Church Shooting?"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30720\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/06\/wpid-Photo-20150623220642952.jpg\" alt=\"Church shooting\" width=\"340\" height=\"339\"><\/div>\n<p>This cartoon should serve as a helpful reminder to fundamentalists. You must make sure to use the right implausible answer to the specific question asked. Otherwise, theological and ethical confusion might result (in other words, the problems with your worldview might be exposed to your conversation partner and, worse still, to you).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon should serve as a helpful reminder to fundamentalists. You must make sure to use the right implausible answer to the specific question asked. 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