{"id":3884,"date":"2008-02-26T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/around-the-blogosphere-40\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T13:34:00","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/around-the-blogosphere-40.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><em><a href=\"http:\/\/melissarogers.typepad.com\/melissa_rogers\/2008\/02\/pew-forums-us-r.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Everyone<\/a><\/em> (well not quite but <em><a href=\"http:\/\/jwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/25\/when-christian-doesnt-mean-christian\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lots<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/church_growth\/pew_survey_on_religion_in_us_u.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bloggers<\/a><\/em>) are talking about the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/johnwmorehead.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/pew-forums-us-religious-landscape.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pew Forums study on religion<\/a>. The study itself can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/religions.pewforum.org\/reports\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pew Forums web site<\/a>.<br>The Quixotic Infidel has a nice chart (and post) about <a href=\"http:\/\/leoquix.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/evolution-of-canon.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the development of the New Testament canon<\/a>.<br>The Bad Idea Blog focuses attention on <a href=\"http:\/\/badidea.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/26\/repent-your-divorce-now-get-back-together-or-face-denying-god-his-due\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the hypocrisy in churches that condemn homosexuality and tolerate divorce<\/a>.<br>Sun and Shield has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/sunandshield.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/more-on-moral-status-of-embryos.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on the moral status of embryos<\/a>.<br>Pharyngula shares <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/02\/are_our_high_schools_teaching.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">statistics on the extent to which high schools are teaching evolution (and other things beside).<\/a><br>The Panda\u2019s Thumb documents still more <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2008\/02\/taking-john-wes.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quote-mining by cdesign proponentsists<\/a>.<br>IO9 shares <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/360726\/titan-rises-behind-saturns-rings\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">stunning photos of Titan<\/a>, Saturn\u2019s moon.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, let me offer this entertaining clip of dueling musicians\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5434517034900918989?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone (well not quite but lots of bloggers) are talking about the recent Pew Forums study on religion. The study itself can be found on the Pew Forums web site.The Quixotic Infidel has a nice chart (and post) about the development of the New Testament canon.The Bad Idea Blog focuses attention on the hypocrisy in [&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-3884","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=\"Everyone (well not quite but lots of bloggers) are talking about the recent Pew Forums study on religion. 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