{"id":29742,"date":"2015-04-20T19:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T23:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29742"},"modified":"2015-04-20T19:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T23:12:26","slug":"christian-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/04\/christian-robots.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>The above segment from the Daily Show looks like it could have been inspired by my book chapter, <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.butler.edu\/facsch_papers\/197\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRobots, Rights, and Religion\u201d<\/a> in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/160899886X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=160899886X&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=EFJGSE2OVO467JKD\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religion and Science Fiction<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The video came to my attention via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atheistrev.com\/2015\/04\/rise-of-christian-robots.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Atheist Rev<\/a>. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christopherbenek.com\/?p=4389\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the website of Christopher Benek<\/a>, who is featured in the video.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above segment from the Daily Show looks like it could have been inspired by my book chapter, \u201cRobots, Rights, and Religion\u201d in\u00a0Religion and Science Fiction. The video came to my attention via Atheist Rev. See also the website of Christopher Benek, who is featured in the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":26028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[616,810,1846,1888,2036,2388,5896,10500],"class_list":["post-29742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","tag-androids","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-christianity-religion","tag-churches","tag-comedy","tag-daily-show","tag-jon-stewart","tag-robots"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Christian Robots<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The above segment from the Daily Show looks like it could have been inspired by my book chapter, "Robots, Rights, and Religion" in\u00a0Religion and Science\" \/>\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\/2015\/04\/christian-robots.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christian Robots\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The above segment from the Daily Show looks like it could have been inspired by my book chapter, "Robots, Rights, and Religion" in\u00a0Religion and Science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/04\/christian-robots.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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