{"id":28779,"date":"2015-03-09T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=28779"},"modified":"2015-03-09T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:47:22","slug":"jews-vs-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/03\/jews-vs-aliens.html","title":{"rendered":"Jews vs. Aliens"},"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>TOR and <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/introducing-jews-vs-zombies-and-jews-vs-aliens-two-v-1687723233\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9<\/a> both drew attention to the anthologies <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00TQT6L4U\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00TQT6L4U&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=OYWQ6PTDAIP4FUW5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jews vs Aliens<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00TQT6L4U\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00TQT6L9K\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00TQT6L9K&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=5HFGYDWDAK5ZR2VU\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jews vs Zombies<\/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=B00TQT6L9K\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/i>. I\u2019m not sure what else to say about them, except that they are\u00a0at the intersection of religion and science fiction, and so I should read them! Also worth a mention is that a contributor to one of the volumes has also written a Doctor Who novel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00TQT6L4U\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00TQT6L4U&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=OYWQ6PTDAIP4FUW5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00TQT6L4U&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00TQT6L4U\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00TQT6L9K\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00TQT6L9K&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=5HFGYDWDAK5ZR2VU\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00TQT6L9K&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/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=B00TQT6L9K\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0051UT6A4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0051UT6A4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=GZLJZKFGFHF7TR7S\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B0051UT6A4&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/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=B0051UT6A4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOR and IO9 both drew attention to the anthologies Jews vs Aliens and Jews vs Zombies. I\u2019m not sure what else to say about them, except that they are\u00a0at the intersection of religion and science fiction, and so I should read them! Also worth a mention is that a contributor to one of the volumes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":28785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,86],"tags":[503,5709,5978,10885,10890,14079],"class_list":["post-28779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judaism-religion","category-science-fiction","tag-aliens","tag-jews","tag-judaism-religion","tag-sci-fi","tag-science-fiction","tag-zombies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jews vs. Aliens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"TOR and IO9 both drew attention to the anthologies Jews vs Aliens and Jews vs Zombies. 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