{"id":48,"date":"2011-03-26T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2019-03-24T07:17:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T11:17:29","slug":"cyberbrethren-archeologists-discover-letter-written-to-st-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/cyberbrethren-archeologists-discover-letter-written-to-st-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberbrethren: Archeologists Discover Letter Written to St. Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant piece of satire from Rev. Paul McCain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Word is now coming out that a letter has been discovered that was written to St. Paul, in response to his letter to the churches in Galatia. Here is an English translation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Parodios, a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, to our brother Paulos.<\/p>\n<p>Our church recently received a copy of the letter that you sent to the church of Galatia. We hope you will not mind hearing our humble concerns. In the past we have noticed you are more interested in confronting people rather than conversing with them, but we hope you will receive this letter as an invitation to further dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, we are uncomfortable with your tone throughout the correspondence. We know it is difficult sometimes to discern tone of voice from written communication, but you should keep this in mind as well. One could gather from your careless use of words that you are losing your temper. You certainly sound angry. This is unbecoming a spokesperson for the faith. As you say yourself, one of the manifest fruit of God\u2019s Spirit is gentleness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It goes on from there.\u00a0 You can read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/cyberbrethren.com\/2011\/03\/25\/archeologists-discover-letter-written-to-st-paul\/\">at Cyberbrethren<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant piece of satire from Rev. Paul McCain: Word is now coming out that a letter has been discovered that was written to St. Paul, in response to his letter to the churches in Galatia. Here is an English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/cyberbrethren-archeologists-discover-letter-written-to-st-paul\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cyberbrethren: Archeologists Discover Letter Written to St. Paul - The 96th Thesis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/cyberbrethren-archeologists-discover-letter-written-to-st-paul\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cyberbrethren: Archeologists Discover Letter Written to St. Paul - The 96th Thesis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A brilliant piece of satire from Rev. 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