{"id":42675,"date":"2017-06-07T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42675"},"modified":"2017-06-07T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:13:38","slug":"atlantic-six-day-war-transformed-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/atlantic-six-day-war-transformed-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic:  &#8220;How the Six-Day War Transformed Religion&#8221;"},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27413\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/800px-Kidron_jerusalem_10.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27413\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27413\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/800px-Kidron_jerusalem_10.jpg\" alt=\"J'lem Center BYU\" width=\"597\" height=\"397\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BYU\u2019s Jerusalem Center, as seen from below (in the Kidron Valley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Note the subtitle: \u00a0\u201cSix perspectives on how the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict changed Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormonism<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 1967 \u201cSix-Day War\u201d between Israel and its Arab neighbors \u2014 the fiftieth anniversary of which falls this very week \u2014 has had an enormous and still-vivid\u00a0impact on the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What impact, if any, did it have on <em>religions<\/em> in the area and in the United States?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m happy that we\u2019re included, of course, and I don\u2019t want to seem ungrateful or churlish, but, really, the list \u201cIslam, Judaism, Christianity, and Mormonism\u201d makes me think just a bit of a list reading\u00a0\u201cmammals, reptiles, fish, and salmon,\u201d or \u201cCalifornia, Wisconsin, Texas, and San Antonio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In any event, it\u2019s an interesting piece:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/06\/how-the-six-day-war-changed-religion\/528981\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cHow the Six-Day War Transformed Religion\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Note the subtitle: \u00a0\u201cSix perspectives on how the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict changed Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Mormonism.\u201d \u00a0 The 1967 \u201cSix-Day War\u201d between Israel and its Arab neighbors \u2014 the fiftieth anniversary of which falls this very week \u2014 has had an enormous and still-vivid\u00a0impact on the region. \u00a0 What impact, if any, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Atlantic: &quot;How the Six-Day War Transformed Religion&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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