{"id":1634,"date":"2010-02-15T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/superman-was-a-methodist\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:06:00","slug":"superman-was-a-methodist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/superman-was-a-methodist.html","title":{"rendered":"Superman Was A Methodist"},"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><div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/star-trek-fandom-as-religious.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GakuseiDon left a comment on\u00a0an earlier post<\/a>\u00a0with a link to this fantastic, fascinating and apparently comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adherents.com\/lit\/comics\/comic_book_religion.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">list of the religious affiliations of superheroes<\/a>. 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