{"id":8746,"date":"2012-08-04T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T15:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=8746"},"modified":"2012-08-04T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T15:39:45","slug":"quote-of-the-day-vorjack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/08\/quote-of-the-day-vorjack.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Vorjack)"},"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>One of the most annoying things about dealing with Protestants is their insistence on Biblical authority paired with their inability to agree on what the Bible says. Combined with the tendency to simply assert their supposedly biblical doctrines without \u201cshowing their work,\u201d so to speak, leaves one with the feeling that the Bible is simply a ventriloquist dummy that will always agree with the speaker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unreasonablefaith\/2012\/08\/meghan-kelly-gets-it\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMeghan Kelly Gets It\u201d a post on the blog Unreasonable Faith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most annoying things about dealing with Protestants is their insistence on Biblical authority paired with their inability to agree on what the Bible says. Combined with the tendency to simply assert their supposedly biblical doctrines without \u201cshowing their work,\u201d so to speak, leaves one with the feeling that the Bible is simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,131,139],"tags":[903,1140,2148,4563,5154,9671,13331],"class_list":["post-8746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-christianity-religion","category-fundamentalism-religion","tag-authority","tag-bible","tag-conservative","tag-hermeneutics","tag-inerrancy","tag-protestants","tag-ventriloquism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Day (Vorjack)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the most annoying things about dealing with Protestants is their insistence on Biblical authority paired with their inability to agree on what the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/08\/quote-of-the-day-vorjack.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Day (Vorjack)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the most annoying things about dealing with Protestants is their insistence on Biblical authority paired with their inability to agree on what the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/08\/quote-of-the-day-vorjack.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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