{"id":438,"date":"2009-01-08T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/01\/battlestar-galactica-and-religion-redux\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T21:17:00","slug":"battlestar-galactica-and-religion-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/01\/battlestar-galactica-and-religion-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Battlestar Galactica and religion, redux."},"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SWbjHHM42yI\/AAAAAAAAC4A\/xMjywjpLhyM\/s1600-h\/ronaldmoore.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 400px;height: 172px\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SWbjHHM42yI\/AAAAAAAAC4A\/xMjywjpLhyM\/s400\/ronaldmoore.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/newsbites-sci-fi-and-adventure-edition.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/i> producer Ronald Moore, to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amctv.com\/scifi-scanner\/2008\/12\/ronald-moore-battlestar-galactica-interview.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">SciFi Scanner<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The journey is not over, but certainly both sides are suddenly faced with the prospect, \u201cMaybe it\u2019s all been for nothing. Maybe there is no God, and if that\u2019s the case where do we go from here? What does it all mean and what are we going to do with ourselves?\u201d which I think is a great place to take the characters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgospel.typepad.com\/sf_gospel\/2009\/01\/a-months-worth-of-links.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">SF Gospel<\/a> blogger Gabriel McKee:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sure, Ron, it\u2019s a good place to take them. Just don\u2019t <i>leave<\/i> them there, OK? \u2018Cause if the whole point of this occasionally very upsetting journey has been that there\u2019s no point to anything\u2026 well, let\u2019s just say BSG won\u2019t be on the list of 14 awesome things about 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The series\u2019 final season begins January 16.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald Moore, to SciFi Scanner: The journey is not over, but certainly both sides are suddenly faced with the prospect, \u201cMaybe it\u2019s all been for nothing. Maybe there is no God, and if that\u2019s the case where do we go from here? 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