{"id":34160,"date":"2016-03-26T13:04:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=34160"},"modified":"2016-03-26T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:04:54","slug":"jesus-facebook-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/03\/jesus-facebook-friends.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus&#8217; (Facebook) Friends"},"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\">Three cartoons on this theme by Tim \u201cSpike\u201d Davis. One of the things that Christians think about during this season is Jesus' teaching about loving our enemies, and how he put it into practice to the last. Can I not forgive my Facebook friends' posts that seem hateful to me, and do so not just 70 times, but 70\u00d77 times?<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/03\/Photo-20160326130439869.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/03\/Photo-20160326130439869.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1459011894823.5315\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/03\/Photo-20160326130440007.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/03\/Photo-20160326130440007.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1459011894788.9749\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/03\/Photo-20160326130440044.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/03\/Photo-20160326130440044.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1459011894815.8594\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three cartoons on this theme by Tim \u201cSpike\u201d Davis. 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