{"id":12456,"date":"2013-01-21T10:23:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=12456"},"modified":"2013-01-21T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:23:01","slug":"the-borg-and-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/01\/the-borg-and-the-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"The Borg and the Bible"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12457\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/01\/The-Borg-and-the-Bible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"571\"><\/p>\n<p>Since this is squarely at the intersection of not only religion and science fiction, but also specifically Biblical studies, I thought I\u2019d share it. 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