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Having discovered the Ship of Fools site<\/a>, I happened upon their latest caption contest<\/a>, which is to find a caption for this image:<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/p>\n

Since the intersection of religion and science fiction (not always as hostile as depicted above) interests me and is a major focus of this blog, I thought that I would share it here. How would you caption it?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"