{"id":21757,"date":"2014-02-22T07:53:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=21757"},"modified":"2014-02-22T07:53:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T12:53:06","slug":"help-your-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/02\/help-your-enemies.html","title":{"rendered":"Help Your Enemies"},"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 class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-21799\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/02\/Help-Your-Enemies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"274\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe should help our enemies because it\u2019s what makes us better than them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This quote from the Doctor is from the graphic novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1613774036\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1613774036&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Assimilation <sup>2<\/sup><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1613774036\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> featuring a crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe should help our enemies because it\u2019s what makes us better than them.\u201d This quote from the Doctor is from the graphic novel Assimilation 2 featuring a crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":21799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,61,90],"tags":[1321,2040,2357,2765,5606,11819],"class_list":["post-21757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doctor-who-science-fiction","category-morality","category-star-trek-science-fiction","tag-borg","tag-comic-book","tag-cybermen","tag-doctor-who","tag-jean-luc-picard","tag-star-trek"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Help Your Enemies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;We should help our enemies because it&#039;s what makes us better than them.&quot; This quote from the Doctor is from the graphic novel Assimilation 2 featuring a\" \/>\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\/2014\/02\/help-your-enemies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Help Your Enemies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;We should help our enemies because it&#039;s what makes us better than them.&quot; This quote from the Doctor is from the graphic novel Assimilation 2 featuring a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/02\/help-your-enemies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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