{"id":3264,"date":"2008-12-03T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/on-the-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-2\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T09:57:00","slug":"on-the-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/on-the-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"On The Trail Of NT Wrong, Part 2"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/images.dawgsports.com\/images\/admin\/Peter_Davison_Dr_Who_in_front_of_TARDIS.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dawgsports.com\/images\/admin\/Peter_Davison_Dr_Who_in_front_of_TARDIS.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>But (as a detective in an Agatha Christie finale might say, having led you to believe that they had identified the murderer by providing motive and opportunity), it turns out that while ETS was on, Mark Goodacre was wandering Boston wearing a cricketing outfit with a piece of celery pinned to the lapel, looking for Peter Davison. (Presumably you\u2019ve also seen the video on YouTube of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cEIn1ZnzNGY\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">what happened when he was at the Cheers bar<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div>So we turn to our next suspect: <a href=\"http:\/\/jwest.wordpress.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West<\/a>.\n<p>Jim is not British, but that provides all the more motive. His sarcasm is grating because he is American. Why not deflect the ire of his blog\u2019s readers by uttering his words of wit under a pseudonym with a British accent?<\/p>\n<p>You also presumably noticed the \u201cW\u201d connection here too: Dr. West &amp; Dr. Wrong. And as a Baptist, Jim has always secretly envied bishops. And who more than Jim West would delight in parodying the name N. T. Wright with \u201cNT Wrong\u201d? Can\u2019t you just hear his maniacal laughter in the background every time Chris Tilling sees the blog\u2019s title and cringes.<\/p>\n<p>But the strongest evidence of all is this: Zwingli is never mentioned on NT Wrong\u2019s blog. Not once. Any biblioblogger would be expected at some point to mention Zwingli, if only in passing, would they not? And so clearly this is evidence that NT Wrong is Jim West, trying a little too hard to conceal his identity by avoiding characteristic words and phrases. I\u2019m surprised that that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypotyposeis.org\/weblog\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen Carlson<\/a> didn\u2019t pich up on this.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Jim was not at ETS or SBL does not disprove this theory. His spies are everywhere, and surely must have provided him with regular reports.<\/p>\n<p>Jim West has a motive as well, his blog having been deleted previously (by rampant raging Wrightians, according to one dominant theory). And so it would not be surprising if he were to deflect their schemes away from the blog that bears his name, or at least maximize his chances of having one of his blogs survive their attacks.<\/p>\n<p>I rest my case (again). Jim West has the means, the motive, and the sarcasm to perpetrate this ingenious bit of pseudonymity. Certainly moreso than <a href=\"http:\/\/patmccullough.com\/2008\/12\/03\/the-identity-of-nt-wrong\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve Young<\/a>. Jim also has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/happysteve\/1445389095\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">musical talent<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/does-jim-west-ever-im-clay-aiken-20060217\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">political experience<\/a>. <\/p><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>However\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1019912433143066667?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But (as a detective in an Agatha Christie finale might say, having led you to believe that they had identified the murderer by providing motive and opportunity), it turns out that while ETS was on, Mark Goodacre was wandering Boston wearing a cricketing outfit with a piece of celery pinned to the lapel, looking for [&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-3264","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>On The Trail Of NT Wrong, Part 2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"But (as a detective in an Agatha Christie finale might say, having led you to believe that they had identified the murderer by providing motive and\" \/>\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\/2008\/12\/on-the-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On The Trail Of NT Wrong, Part 2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"But (as a detective in an Agatha Christie finale might say, having led you to believe that they had identified the murderer by providing motive and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/on-the-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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