{"id":35250,"date":"2013-06-06T08:58:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/?p=35250"},"modified":"2013-06-06T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:58:52","slug":"elsewhere-how-have-movies-poked-fun-at-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2013\/06\/elsewhere-how-have-movies-poked-fun-at-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"ELSEWHERE: How Have Movies Poked Fun At Religion?"},"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>PopMatters\u2019\u00a0Bill Gibron offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/pm\/post\/172210-can-god-be-funny-some-films-think-so\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a brief survey<\/a> of the many ways in which films have satirized, skewered, and otherwise poked fun at religion. Films on his list include <em>Life of Brian<\/em>, <em>Saved!<\/em>, and the upcoming <em>Rapture-palooza<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PopMatters\u2019\u00a0Bill Gibron offers a brief survey of the many ways in which films have satirized, skewered, and otherwise poked fun at religion. 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