{"id":799,"date":"2011-07-15T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=790"},"modified":"2011-07-15T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:00:03","slug":"scholarship-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/07\/scholarship-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship Around the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

First, Bob Cargill shared the following motivational poster<\/a>, with the heading \u201cWhy scholarship is important\u201d and the additional observation that \u201cJust because it\u2019s simple, clever, or rhymes, doesn\u2019t necessarily make it correct.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Scott Bailey, in addition to passing on the image above<\/a>, also continued his discussion of whether higher criticism attempts to \u201cdestroy the Bible,\u201d<\/a> and (along with John Loftus<\/a>) shared a video of Bart Ehrman which freezes him in a moment of quasi-religious ecstasy of the sort that scholarship frequently produces<\/a>.<\/p>\n