{"id":189,"date":"2011-04-09T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/religion-and-sci-fi-from-firefly-to-tron\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T16:40:00","slug":"religion-and-sci-fi-from-firefly-to-tron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/religion-and-sci-fi-from-firefly-to-tron.html","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Sci-Fi: From Firefly To Tron"},"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>A couple of posts related to religion and science fiction recently popped up on blogs I read. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedpastor.com\/2011\/04\/08\/the-devil-with-perfection\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nakedpastor reflects on the religious significance of TRON: Legacy<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/politicaljesus.com\/2011\/04\/07\/firefly3\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rod of Alexandria continues a series on Theology and Firefly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-361199195325611105?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of posts related to religion and science fiction recently popped up on blogs I read. 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