{"id":31169,"date":"2015-07-28T13:32:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=31169"},"modified":"2015-07-28T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:32:45","slug":"islab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/islab.html","title":{"rendered":"iSlab"},"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 size-full wp-image-31170\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/07\/iSlab.jpg\" alt=\"iSlab\" width=\"500\" height=\"617\"><\/p>\n<p>There are so many things that might be said about this cartoon. It makes the point that things have become commonplace in our time which would have seemed miraculous a few hundred years ago, never mind several thousand. And it asks us to imagine how we might respond to someone who came claiming revealed truths which God had supposedly downloaded onto their tablet\u00a0device (surely today\u2019s equivalent of a stone tablet).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many things that might be said about this cartoon. It makes the point that things have become commonplace in our time which would have seemed miraculous a few hundred years ago, never mind several thousand. 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