{"id":3612,"date":"2008-07-09T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/cartoons-around-the-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2008-07-09T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T10:40:00","slug":"cartoons-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/cartoons-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Cartoons Around the Blogosphere"},"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>John Pieret has <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/irrationality-squared.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a \u201ccracker\u201d of a post<\/a>. Ann Fontaine highlights some bloggers who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/other_faiths\/blogging_the_quran.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blogging the Qur\u2019an<\/a>. Ken Schenck continues working through <a href=\"http:\/\/kenschenck.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/dunns-partings-4-temple-made-with-hands.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James D. G. Dunn\u2019s <em>The Partings of the Ways<\/em><\/a>. The Evolution of the Mystery talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/evolutionmystery.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/skeptical-religion-part-two-problem-of.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">miracles<\/a>. Scot McKnight has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/?p=3956\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">little exercise for young theobloggers<\/a>. Jim West shares <a href=\"http:\/\/jwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/09\/joe-zias-on-the-vision-of-gabriel-messiah-tablet-or-whatever-you-wish-to-call-it\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joe Zias\u2019 thoughts on the \u201cRevelation of Gabriel\u201d<\/a>. Chris Heard\u2019s two interests, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heardworld.com\/higgaion\/?p=1039\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">teaching Bible and role playing games, are finally converging<\/a>. Mark Goodacre blogs the <a href=\"http:\/\/markgoodacre.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/doctor-who-series-4-episode-13-journeys.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doctor Who season finale, \u201cJourney\u2019s End\u201d<\/a>. C.Orthodoxy points to a <em>Christianity Today<\/em> article about why <a href=\"http:\/\/c-orthodoxy.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/greydanus-on-hellboy-christianity-and.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hell gets more movie time than heaven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2194486\/entry\/2194487\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">latest<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/asbojesus.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/09\/506\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ASBO Jesus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asbojesus.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/brains.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"214\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/asbojesus.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/brains.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I think it may perhaps be beaten by this gem from <a href=\"http:\/\/abstrusegoose.com\/31\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abtruse Goose<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/07\/turnabout_is_fair_play.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pharyngula<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abstrusegoose.com\/strips\/Veritas_Vos_Liberabit.PNG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"348\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/abstrusegoose.com\/strips\/Veritas_Vos_Liberabit.PNG\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But even that did not make me laugh as hard as this little promotional video, brought to you by \u201cChristians for worshipping and praising the God of the Bible, or else\u201d (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/judgment-day-for-skeptics.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Debunking Christianity<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-9134728905632632502?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Pieret has a \u201ccracker\u201d of a post. Ann Fontaine highlights some bloggers who are blogging the Qur\u2019an. Ken Schenck continues working through James D. G. Dunn\u2019s The Partings of the Ways. The Evolution of the Mystery talks about miracles. Scot McKnight has a little exercise for young theobloggers. Jim West shares Joe Zias\u2019 thoughts [&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-3612","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>Cartoons Around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Pieret has a &quot;cracker&quot; of a post. Ann Fontaine highlights some bloggers who are blogging the Qur&#039;an. 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