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The cartoon above came to my attention via Kissing Fish on Facebook. It is a nice addition to the collection of cartoon tributes to Leonard Nimoy on religious themes which I put together yesterday. IDIC is a Vulcan motto \u2013\u00a0and we can see it expressed on Star Trek\u00a0in Spock\u2019s adherence to logic while participating in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":28929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,90],"tags":[284,1242,4485,4966,5175,5706,5978,6483,9510,10169,10179,11210,11724,11819,13482],"class_list":["post-28928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judaism-religion","category-star-trek-science-fiction","tag-aaronic","tag-blessing","tag-hebrew-languages","tag-idic","tag-infinite-diversity-in-infinite-combinations","tag-jewish","tag-judaism-religion","tag-leonard-nimoy","tag-priestly","tag-religion","tag-religious","tag-shin","tag-spock","tag-star-trek","tag-vulcan"],"yoast_head":"\n
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