{"id":1116,"date":"2010-07-14T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/mrs-almighty-asherah-makes-a-comeback-in-a-cartoon\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:30:00","slug":"mrs-almighty-asherah-makes-a-comeback-in-a-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/mrs-almighty-asherah-makes-a-comeback-in-a-cartoon.html","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Almighty (Asherah Makes a Comeback in a Cartoon)"},"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>Asherah, the long-neglected consort of ancient Israel\u2019s male deity from way back when, has made a comeback in the cartoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2010\/07\/13\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Non Sequitur<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/targuman.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/god-must-be-a-man\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Brady<\/a>):<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/TD4QLwzUOlI\/AAAAAAAAAqs\/YMg8CntZSLw\/s1600\/Mrs.+Almighty.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/TD4QLwzUOlI\/AAAAAAAAAqs\/YMg8CntZSLw\/s640\/Mrs.+Almighty.gif\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3825504905917078671?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asherah, the long-neglected consort of ancient Israel\u2019s male deity from way back when, has made a comeback in the cartoon Non Sequitur (HT Chris Brady):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","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>Mrs. Almighty (Asherah Makes a Comeback in a Cartoon)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Asherah, the long-neglected consort of ancient Israel&#039;s male deity from way back when, has made a comeback in the cartoon Non Sequitur (HT Chris Brady):\" \/>\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\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/mrs-almighty-asherah-makes-a-comeback-in-a-cartoon.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mrs. Almighty (Asherah Makes a Comeback in a Cartoon)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Asherah, the long-neglected consort of ancient Israel&#039;s male deity from way back when, has made a comeback in the cartoon Non Sequitur (HT Chris Brady):\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/mrs-almighty-asherah-makes-a-comeback-in-a-cartoon.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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