{"id":280,"date":"2010-05-12T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godweb.org\/wordpress\/?p=280"},"modified":"2011-07-18T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T15:09:08","slug":"280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"The Internet as a Metaphor for God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D280&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosscurrents.org\/henderson.htm\"><strong>The Internet As A Metaphor For God<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nA few years ago, I began thinking that the world wide web is a kind of metaphor for the divine, connecting, as it does, so many diverse and different things together. 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