{"id":1675,"date":"2010-02-03T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/icelandic-sith\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:03:00","slug":"icelandic-sith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/icelandic-sith.html","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Sith"},"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>I\u2019m not entirely certain what the story behind this video is, but one thing is certain: it fits into that category I\u2019m interested in of <i>religion and science fiction<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Darth Vader Joins a Cult\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fUrMcQ3ro0E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/openparachute.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/04\/get-in-line-who-is-the-odd-one-out\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Open Parachute<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1587452186983827262?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not entirely certain what the story behind this video is, but one thing is certain: it fits into that category I\u2019m interested in of religion and science fiction: HT Open Parachute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Icelandic Sith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m not entirely certain what the story behind this video is, but one thing is certain: it fits into that category I&#039;m interested in of religion and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/icelandic-sith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Icelandic Sith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#039;m not entirely certain what the story behind this video is, but one thing is certain: it fits into that category I&#039;m interested in of religion and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/icelandic-sith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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