{"id":7921,"date":"2012-05-31T22:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T02:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2012-05-31T22:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T02:35:35","slug":"teach-the-controversy-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/05\/teach-the-controversy-controversy.html","title":{"rendered":"Teach the Controversy Controversy"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=2627\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SMBC has a great comic strip about \u201cteaching the controversy.\u201d Click through to read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/files\/2012\/05\/Controversy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"315\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2012\/05\/30\/teaching-the-conntruhversey\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">HT Hemant Mehta<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMBC has a great comic strip about \u201cteaching the controversy.\u201d Click through to read it. 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