{"id":9854,"date":"2012-10-05T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=9854"},"modified":"2012-10-05T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:17:08","slug":"chasing-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/10\/chasing-certainty.html","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Certainty"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/10\/wpid-Photo-Oct-5-2012-213-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/10\/wpid-Photo-Oct-5-2012-213-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2007\/10\/25\/gay-hatin-gos-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\">quote from Fred Clark's blog Slacktivist<\/a>, turned into a poster by the Facebook group Christians Against the Tea Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another quote from Fred Clark&#8217;s blog Slacktivist, turned into a poster by the Facebook group Christians Against the Tea Party. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,43],"tags":[551,1140,1154,1697,3200,3202,8815,13163],"class_list":["post-9854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-inerrancy","tag-american","tag-bible","tag-biblicism","tag-certainty","tag-evangelical","tag-evangelicalism","tag-paul","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chasing Certainty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another quote from Fred Clark&#039;s blog Slacktivist, turned into a poster by the Facebook group Christians Against the Tea Party. &nbsp;\" \/>\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\/10\/chasing-certainty.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chasing Certainty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another quote from Fred Clark&#039;s blog Slacktivist, turned into a poster by the Facebook group Christians Against the Tea Party. &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/10\/chasing-certainty.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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