{"id":2551,"date":"2009-01-15T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/yahweh-or-no-way\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T09:09:00","slug":"yahweh-or-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/yahweh-or-no-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahweh or No Way"},"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>Stephen Colbert is always entertaining, and his new segment \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/215452\/january-08-2009\/yahweh-or-no-way---roland-burris\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahweh or No Way<\/a>\u201d is no exception. The clip below touches on one subject mentioned here very recently, and is worth watching all the way to the end:<\/p>\n<p>.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url(\u2018http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/comedycentral\/video\/assets\/syndicated-logo-over.png\u2019) !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}<\/p>\n<div class=\"cc_box\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n<div class=\"cc_home\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/a>\n<div style=\"font:bold 10px Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;float:left;width:299px;height:31px;border:solid 1px #cfcfcf;border-width:1px 1px 0px 0px;overflow:hidden;color:#707070\">\n<div class=\"cc_show\" style=\"background-color:#e5e5e5;padding-left:3px;height:14px;padding-top:2px;overflow:hidden\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Colbert Report<\/a><span>Mon \u2013 Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc_title\" style=\"font-size:11px;color:#868686;background-color:#f5f5f5;padding:3px;padding-top:1px;line-height:14px;height:21px;overflow:hidden\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/215452\/january-08-2009\/yahweh-or-no-way---roland-burris\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahweh or No Way \u2013 Roland Burris<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cc_links\" style=\"float:left;clear:left;width:358px;border:solid 1px #cfcfcf;border-top:0px;font:10px Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;color:#b9b9b9;background-color:#f5f5f5\">\n<div style=\"width:177px;float:left;padding-left:3px\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/video\/tag\/Christmas\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colbert at Christmas<\/a><br><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.comedycentral.com\/detail.php?p=76445&amp;v=comedy-central_shows_the-colbert-report&amp;SESSID=e404c55c0698e438f4508b6b848da5eb\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colbert Christmas DVD<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width:177px;float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/video?keywords=green+screen\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Green Screen<\/a><br><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/81003\/january-18-2007\/bill-o-reilly\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bill O\u2019Reilly Interview<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In other news, scientists have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">exploring our matrix<\/a>, while the \u201cLOST brain trust\u201d explains why <a href=\"http:\/\/featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment_tv\/2009\/01\/lostabctv.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">each episode contains a bit of cherry pie<\/a>. Here\u2019s a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on everything you\u2019ve seen up to this point, we know that Ben and Widmore don\u2019t get along with each other and that Widmore wants to control the island and believes that Ben has taken the island away from him. You don\u2019t understand the context of that. You don\u2019t know what their past is or their relationship. So if you\u2019re going to look at it as, there\u2019s a Ben side and Widmore side, I\u2019d say, \u201cWell, then what side are the Oceanic 6 on? Our castaways \u2014 are they on their own side?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Basically, the only two sides that matter in any grand, epic storytelling are good and evil. Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? And for so long, Ben Linus has been identifying himself as a good guy, but we\u2019ve been seeing him engage in behaviors that would lead us to believe that that is not entirely the truth. 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