{"id":4014,"date":"2007-12-14T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/the-wittenburg-door\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T12:33:00","slug":"the-wittenburg-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/the-wittenburg-door.html","title":{"rendered":"The Wittenburg Door"},"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>As someone who appreciates satire, and occasionally engages in it himself, I was delighted to discover a web site devoted to theological and religious satire, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wittenburgdoor.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Wittenburg Door<\/a>. 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