{"id":3832,"date":"2008-03-26T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/daring-to-deny-the-doctor\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T12:49:00","slug":"daring-to-deny-the-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/daring-to-deny-the-doctor.html","title":{"rendered":"Daring to Deny the Doctor"},"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>There is an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/372221\/doctor-who-is-work-of-satan-so-buy-my-stuff\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on IO9 about a man who has become a Christian and as a result is renouncing Dr. Who<\/a>, categorizing it together with alcohol and materialism as things from which he has been delivered.<\/p>\n<p>I hope <a href=\"http:\/\/markgoodacre.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/doctor-who-series-4-trailer.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Goodacre<\/a> will have something to say about this! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6543379701204406390?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting post on IO9 about a man who has become a Christian and as a result is renouncing Dr. Who, categorizing it together with alcohol and materialism as things from which he has been delivered. 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