{"id":3195,"date":"2008-12-26T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/quote-of-the-day-the-internet-theologian\/"},"modified":"2008-12-26T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T15:22:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-the-internet-theologian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/quote-of-the-day-the-internet-theologian.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (The Internet Theologian)"},"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 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cThere is one thing in the world I love above all others: accuracy. Particularly, accuracy on the subject of Christianity. For years, I have patrolled the byways of the World Wide Web to correct errors, right wrongs, do battle with ignorance, and make fun of people with bad grammar.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">\u2014 Tom Breen (aka \u201cThe Internet Theologian\u201d) in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/southern-orthodoxy.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/messiah-formerly-known-as-jesus.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus<\/a>: Dispatches from the Intersection of Christianity and Pop Culture<\/em> <\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">(Waco: Baylor University Press, 2008) p.1.  <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">[This quote could serve as the motto for bibliobloggerdom\/theoblogy as a whole, could it not?]<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7366030645535786945?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is one thing in the world I love above all others: accuracy. Particularly, accuracy on the subject of Christianity. For years, I have patrolled the byways of the World Wide Web to correct errors, right wrongs, do battle with ignorance, and make fun of people with bad grammar.\u201d \u2014 Tom Breen (aka \u201cThe Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Day (The Internet Theologian)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;There is one thing in the world I love above all others: accuracy. Particularly, accuracy on the subject of Christianity. 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