{"id":245,"date":"2011-07-21T21:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T21:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/throughthegrapevine\/?p=245"},"modified":"2011-07-21T21:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T21:57:49","slug":"in-the-end-it-is-not-the-place-of-nature-of-the-gods-to-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/throughthegrapevine\/2011\/07\/in-the-end-it-is-not-the-place-of-nature-of-the-gods-to-save-us\/","title":{"rendered":"In the end it is not the place of nature, of the gods, to save us&#8230;"},"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><strong>HUMANISTIC PAGANISM: <a 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