{"id":12805,"date":"2013-02-05T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=12805"},"modified":"2013-02-05T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:38:14","slug":"wolverines-conversion-to-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/02\/wolverines-conversion-to-christianity.html","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine&#8217;s Conversion to Christianity"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVdKq3AkfJ8\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVdKq3AkfJ8<\/a>\n<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/unsettledchristianity.com\/2013\/02\/wolverine-is-a-christian-holy-xmen\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+unsettledchristianityblog+%28Unsettled+Christianity%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel Watts shared<\/a> the above clip from an X-Men cartoon. 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