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I saw this cartoon, and as a religion professor, my first reaction was to ask what sort of religion would look to both Marduk and Sekhmet as authorities. But I guess stranger combinations have occurred in the history of religious syncretism. If people can write books like Jesus CEO to promote a particular business model, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,42,80],"tags":[944,1467,1625,2985,3051,3052,6986,8336,11034],"class_list":["post-22640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-humor","category-religion","tag-babylonian","tag-business","tag-cartoon","tag-egyptian","tag-employees","tag-employers","tag-marduk","tag-office","tag-sekhmet"],"yoast_head":"\n
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