{"id":3907,"date":"2008-02-20T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/around-the-blogosphere-41\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T08:58:00","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/around-the-blogosphere-41.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>Pisteuomen shared <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhalcomb.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/when-politicians-say-theyre-christian.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a YouTube video of George W. Bush<\/a>, intending it to cast aspersions on his religious views, because they don\u2019t match up with one particular Evangelical understanding of salvation. In fact, if anything, it makes Bush look better than he might have otherwise. <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhalcomb.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/when-politicians-say-theyre-christian.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">You be the judge<\/a>. R. T. Jones, by contrast, shows that <a href=\"http:\/\/rtjones.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/19\/salvation-in-the-athanasian-creed\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the classic position of Christian orthodoxy<\/a> is very different than that of modern fundamentalists.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/features\/20080216-9999-1c16problemm.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent interview<\/a> Bart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/?p=848\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ehrman<\/a> gave is being discussed by <a href=\"http:\/\/mysticalseeker.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/bart-ehrman.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mystical Seeker<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bibleandancientneareast.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/kill-metaphorically-speaking-apostate.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alan Lenzi<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomtally.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/bart_ehrman_and_the_hypothesis_of_god.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Duane Smith<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/216.109.125.130\/search\/cache?ei=UTF-8&amp;p=Ehrman+McGrath+blog&amp;fr=slv8-&amp;u=drjimwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/16\/bart-ehrman-in-the-news\/&amp;w=ehrman+mcgrath+blog+blogs&amp;d=DJuRB3DuQUT3&amp;icp=1&amp;.intl=us\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West\u2019s post<\/a> about Ehrman, like all his others, have been hacked. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Rice offers thoughts about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanrice.org\/2008\/02\/18\/something-to-ponder\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">commonly-used circular argument<\/a>. Theo Geek tackles <a href=\"http:\/\/theogeek.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/inhospitality-of-sodom.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the odd way many people today think about Sodom and Gomorrah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Northstate Science has posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/northstatescience.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/18\/of-syro-palestinian-archaeology-turkeys-and-negative-evidence\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">archaeology and the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like bad arguments and misreadings of evidence are being challenged all over the place \u2013 including <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/deed-is-done.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in Florida<\/a>! This is, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/duty_calls.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">why we blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the United States needs more political parties. Why should it matter if McCain is \u201ctoo liberal\u201d while Huckabee wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.faithinpubliclife.org\/2008\/02\/cspans_studentcam_winner_leavi.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">rewrite the Constitution<\/a>? Let\u2019s have more parties, representing a wider range of views, so that we can get past this <a href=\"http:\/\/justanapprentice.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/20\/the-scandal-of-evangelical-politics\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">two-party system<\/a> (which is but one step away from a one-party system, and that can\u2019t be good).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2033573967209327764?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pisteuomen shared a YouTube video of George W. Bush, intending it to cast aspersions on his religious views, because they don\u2019t match up with one particular Evangelical understanding of salvation. In fact, if anything, it makes Bush look better than he might have otherwise. You be the judge. R. T. 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