{"id":1384,"date":"2010-04-14T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/religion-and-science-fiction-essays\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:21:00","slug":"religion-and-science-fiction-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/religion-and-science-fiction-essays.html","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Science Fiction Essays"},"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>Students in my religion and science fiction class are turning their attention to their essays, and I\u2019ve given them a lot of freedom to come up with their own topics. <a href=\"http:\/\/religionandsciencefiction.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/exploring-topics.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">One student is asking for input<\/a>, and so this is the opportunity for readers here who are interested in religion and sci-fi to show just what blogs are useful for, and provide some input and ideas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1415235023445651882?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in my religion and science fiction class are turning their attention to their essays, and I\u2019ve given them a lot of freedom to come up with their own topics. 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