{"id":3688,"date":"2008-05-27T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/underverse-and-izgad\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T21:19:00","slug":"underverse-and-izgad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/underverse-and-izgad.html","title":{"rendered":"Underverse and Izgad"},"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>I didn\u2019t know what else to call this post, which basically highlights two blogs that I\u2019ve recently become aware of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/underverse.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Underverse<\/a> continues the <a href=\"http:\/\/underverse.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/louts-complaint.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">conversation about theology<\/a> that has spanned Larry Moran\u2019s blog, this one and several others (including most recently <a href=\"http:\/\/de-conversion.com\/2008\/05\/26\/religion-and-the-us-mortgage-crisis\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">De-Conversion<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/c-orthodoxy.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/quote-theology-and-metaphor.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">C. Orthodoxy<\/a>, another contribution by <a href=\"http:\/\/anxiousmofo.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/27\/taking-things-literally\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anxious Mo-Fo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolutionblog\/2008\/05\/religion_is_sensible_to_the_ex.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">EvolutionBlog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/05\/we_happy_hooligans.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pharyngula<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/theres-philosophers-and-then-theres.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Pieret<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kenschenck.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/metaphors-we-live-by-1.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ken Schenck<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayology.com\/2008\/05\/link-roundup\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kayology<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/izgad.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Izgad<\/a> has posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/izgad.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/humans-battling-mind-controlling-aliens_23.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">humans battling mind-controlling aliens<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/izgad.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/toward-formulating-jewish-view-of-jesus_11.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">formulating a Jewish view of Jesus<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/izgad.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/ben-steins-war-review-of-expelled.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">review of <em>Expelled<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3905288839419562653?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t know what else to call this post, which basically highlights two blogs that I\u2019ve recently become aware of. Underverse continues the conversation about theology that has spanned Larry Moran\u2019s blog, this one and several others (including most recently De-Conversion, C. Orthodoxy, another contribution by Anxious Mo-Fo, EvolutionBlog, Pharyngula, John Pieret, Ken Schenck and [&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-3688","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>Underverse and Izgad<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I didn&#039;t know what else to call this post, which basically highlights two blogs that I&#039;ve recently become aware of.Underverse continues the conversation\" \/>\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\/05\/underverse-and-izgad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Underverse and Izgad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I didn&#039;t know what else to call this post, which basically highlights two blogs that I&#039;ve recently become aware of.Underverse continues the conversation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/underverse-and-izgad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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