{"id":401,"date":"2012-01-11T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/?p=401"},"modified":"2012-01-11T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:57:09","slug":"some-people-are-really-hung-up-on-the-blue-ivy-is-satan-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/01\/some-people-are-really-hung-up-on-the-blue-ivy-is-satan-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Some People Are Really Hung Up on the &#8216;Blue Ivy Is Satan&#8217; Thing"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/14\/2012\/01\/2012_01_baptist-church-beyonce-baby.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-403\" title=\"2012_01_baptist-church-beyonce-baby\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/14\/2012\/01\/2012_01_baptist-church-beyonce-baby-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\"><\/a>Although most people who read the weirdo conspiracy \u201c<strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> and <strong>Beyonce<\/strong>\u2018s baby is the devil\u201d thing the other day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/01\/some-people-on-twitter-think-beyonce-and-jay-zs-baby-is-a-satanist\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">laughed it off as absurd<\/a>, some are refusing to let it go. A church in West End, NC (Note: I\u2019m from NC and had never heard of this place, so I had to look up where it is. It\u2019s near Pinecrest, which basically means it\u2019s not near anything.) has put up this sign claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2012\/01\/11\/beyonce-blue-ivy-carter-church-vandalized-satan\/#.Tw2gbvmjSSp\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">lil\u2019 Blue Ivy Carter is Satan<\/a>. I\u2019d say they were ripping off the plot of <em>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em>, but I am pretty sure they\u2019re not allowed to watch that movie.<\/p>\n<p>That said, doesn\u2019t this thing kind of look like it was made by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.says-it.com\/churchsigns\/sign04.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Church Sign Generator<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although most people who read the weirdo conspiracy \u201cJay-Z and Beyonce\u2018s baby is the devil\u201d thing the other day laughed it off as absurd, some are refusing to let it go. A church in West End, NC (Note: I\u2019m from NC and had never heard of this place, so I had to look up where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[264,266,96,273,265,274],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-beyonce","tag-blue-ivy-carter","tag-christianity","tag-church-signs","tag-jay-z","tag-satan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Some People Are Really Hung Up on the &#039;Blue Ivy Is Satan&#039; Thing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Although most people who read the weirdo conspiracy &quot;Jay-Z and Beyonce&#039;s baby is the devil&quot; thing the other day laughed it off as absurd, some are\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/01\/some-people-are-really-hung-up-on-the-blue-ivy-is-satan-thing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some People Are Really Hung Up on the &#039;Blue Ivy Is Satan&#039; Thing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Although most people who read the weirdo conspiracy &quot;Jay-Z and Beyonce&#039;s baby is the devil&quot; thing the other day laughed it off as absurd, some are\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/01\/some-people-are-really-hung-up-on-the-blue-ivy-is-satan-thing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Faith Goes Pop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-11T14:57:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/files\/2012\/01\/2012_01_baptist-church-beyonce-baby-300x157.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lilit Marcus\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lilit Marcus\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/01\/some-people-are-really-hung-up-on-the-blue-ivy-is-satan-thing\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/01\/some-people-are-really-hung-up-on-the-blue-ivy-is-satan-thing\/\",\"name\":\"Some People Are Really Hung Up on the 'Blue Ivy Is Satan' Thing\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-01-11T14:57:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-01-11T14:57:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/#\/schema\/person\/7100bad6fb8ef5967356445b9bbfae61\"},\"description\":\"Although most people who read the weirdo conspiracy \\\"Jay-Z and Beyonce's baby is the devil\\\" thing the other day laughed it off as absurd, some are\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/01\/some-people-are-really-hung-up-on-the-blue-ivy-is-satan-thing\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/01\/some-people-are-really-hung-up-on-the-blue-ivy-is-satan-thing\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/01\/some-people-are-really-hung-up-on-the-blue-ivy-is-satan-thing\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Some People Are Really Hung Up on the &#8216;Blue Ivy Is Satan&#8217; Thing\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/\",\"name\":\"Faith Goes Pop\",\"description\":\"Pop culture is crazy religious. 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