{"id":44354,"date":"2018-04-30T05:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T09:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=44354"},"modified":"2018-04-24T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:36:43","slug":"religion-at-its-best-and-worst-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/04\/religion-at-its-best-and-worst-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Religion at its Best and Worst"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44357\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2018\/03\/1739B974-258C-4801-9ED7-D0DD011ACDDF.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"768\"><\/p>\n<p>I shared the above quote previously some time ago, but apparently the image went missing, and so I thought I should rectify that by sharing it again!<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with the sentiment in the quote? 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