{"id":1522,"date":"2010-03-09T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/sci-fi-religion-and-posttranssuperhumanism\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:26:00","slug":"sci-fi-religion-and-posttranssuperhumanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/sci-fi-religion-and-posttranssuperhumanism.html","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi, Religion and Posttranssuperhumanism"},"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>IO9 has <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5478829\/is-science-fiction-humanism-a-contradiction-in-terms\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an interesting article on whether \u201cscience fiction humanism\u201d is a contradiction in terms<\/a>. 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