{"id":2078,"date":"2009-09-25T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/father-neo\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:12:00","slug":"father-neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/father-neo.html","title":{"rendered":"Father Neo"},"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>A student drew to my attention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9075370\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a priest from here in Indianapolis<\/a>, who gained the nickname \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtawh.com\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=17900&amp;mode=threaded\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Father Neo<\/a>\u201d because of the resemblance between his cassock and the long coat Neo wore in the Matrix films, took things to a whole new level in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catecheticsonline.com\/forum\/index.php?automodule=gallery&amp;req=si&amp;img=55\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ad campaign<\/a> for the priesthood <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sushiesque.com\/sushiesque\/images\/matrixpriest.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">emulating<\/a> the Matrix films:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catecheticsonline.com\/forum\/uploads\/1151969902\/gallery_14_14_496.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catecheticsonline.com\/forum\/uploads\/1151969902\/gallery_14_14_496.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>I wonder if it would be possible to arrange a guest appearance at Butler next semester when I teach my class on religion and science fiction\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5847715599190295616?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student drew to my attention that a priest from here in Indianapolis, who gained the nickname \u201cFather Neo\u201d because of the resemblance between his cassock and the long coat Neo wore in the Matrix films, took things to a whole new level in an ad campaign for the priesthood emulating the Matrix films: I [&hellip;]<\/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-2078","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>Father Neo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A student drew to my attention that a priest from here in Indianapolis, who gained the nickname &quot;Father Neo&quot; because of the resemblance between his\" \/>\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\/2009\/09\/father-neo.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Father Neo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A student drew to my attention that a priest from here in Indianapolis, who gained the nickname &quot;Father Neo&quot; because of the resemblance between his\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/father-neo.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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