{"id":34048,"date":"2016-03-21T06:11:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T10:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=34048"},"modified":"2016-03-21T06:11:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T10:11:45","slug":"lack-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/03\/lack-of-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Faith"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_34049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34049\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34049\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/03\/Lack-of-Faith-Church-Sign.jpg\" alt=\"Image processed by CodeCarvings Piczard ### FREE Community Edition ### on 2014-08-25 19:11:48Z | http:\/\/piczard.com | http:\/\/codecarvings.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"434\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/did-the-church-sign-really-just-say-that\/21\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a collection of church sign fails<\/a>. 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