{"id":6094,"date":"2010-08-09T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=6094"},"modified":"2010-08-09T05:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T09:30:05","slug":"julia-roberts-converts-to-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/08\/julia-roberts-converts-to-hinduism\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts converts to Hinduism"},"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>Movie star Julia Roberts\u2013the ex-wife of Missouri Synod Lutheran Lyle Lovett\u2013has converted to Hinduism, along with her entire family. \u00a0She is starring in the movie version of the bestselling book <em>Eat, Pray, Love <\/em>about a woman who does the same thing. \u00a0Maybe Hinduism will become the next religious fad in this country. \u00a0It ties into postmodernism in an interesting way, positing that the objective universe is an illusion (cf. \u201cthere is no objective truth\u201d) and that god is to be found within the self. \u00a0Also, the issue for Hinduism is not so much sin\u2013the body and what we do with it being part of the illusion\u2013as escaping the physical realm by delving inside the self. \u00a0It\u2019s a good way to be spiritual without being religious.<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/undergod\/2010\/08\/julia_roberts_is_hindu_is_america_ready_for_a_hindu_sweetheart.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Under God: Julia Roberts is Hindu: Is America ready for a Hindu sweetheart? \u2013 Elizabeth Tenety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie star Julia Roberts\u2013the ex-wife of Missouri Synod Lutheran Lyle Lovett\u2013has converted to Hinduism, along with her entire family. \u00a0She is starring in the movie version of the bestselling book Eat, Pray, Love about a woman who does the same thing. \u00a0Maybe Hinduism will become the next religious fad in this country. \u00a0It ties into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,39],"tags":[1020,1213],"class_list":["post-6094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-religions","tag-hinduism","tag-julia-roberts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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