{"id":3798,"date":"2008-04-08T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/around-the-blogosphere-35\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T09:18:00","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/around-the-blogosphere-35.html","title":{"rendered":"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>C.Orthodoxy likes how the Harry Potter series emphasizes that <a href=\"http:\/\/c-orthodoxy.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/harry-potter-and-order-of-phoenix.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the world is not made of good and evil people but people who make good and evil <i>choices<\/i><\/a>.<br>ERV continues the discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/who-are-we-frming-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">framing science<\/a>, giving the sense that \u201cfr*ming\u201d has become a four-letter word!<br>I find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firepile.com\/robin\/?p=307\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a representative of government claiming an atheist has no right to speak<\/a> deeply disturbing.<br>Greta Christina explains <a href=\"http:\/\/gretachristina.typepad.com\/greta_christinas_weblog\/2008\/04\/the-blasphemy-1.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">why creationism is blasphemous<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/qalmlea.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/rant.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Qalmlea<\/a>).<br>John Pieret shares <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/nothing-new-under-some-suns.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a quote from Francisco J. Ayala<\/a>.<br>Science Avenger asks if <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceavenger.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/ben-stein-thinks-hitler-was-right.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Stein really thinks Hitler was right<\/a>.<br>ZenFoPro has a thought-provoking piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/zenformation.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/praying-for-ignorance-never-saved.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">praying for ignorance<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/strikingthoughts.wordpress.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bob Patterson<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3655303971361479493?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.Orthodoxy likes how the Harry Potter series emphasizes that the world is not made of good and evil people but people who make good and evil choices.ERV continues the discussion of framing science, giving the sense that \u201cfr*ming\u201d has become a four-letter word!I find a representative of government claiming an atheist has no right to [&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-3798","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>Around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"C.Orthodoxy likes how the Harry Potter series emphasizes that the world is not made of good and evil people but people who make good and evil choices.ERV\" \/>\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\/04\/around-the-blogosphere-35.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Around the Blogosphere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"C.Orthodoxy likes how the Harry Potter series emphasizes that the world is not made of good and evil people but people who make good and evil choices.ERV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/around-the-blogosphere-35.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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