{"id":31070,"date":"2015-07-19T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=31070"},"modified":"2015-07-19T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T13:00:40","slug":"star-wars-jesus-dress-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/star-wars-jesus-dress-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Jesus Dress Up"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-31071\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/07\/Star-Wars-Jesus-Dress-Up.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars Jesus Dress Up\" width=\"469\" height=\"352\"><\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine spotted this in a bookstore in Perth, Australia, and shared a photo. So it is a real thing. But\u00a0<em>why<\/em> is it a thing? Is this designed for people who will buy it simply because it is so bizarre \u2013 or because they, like me, are very interested in both Jesus and Star Wars? Or is it an actual playset for people who think of Jesus as the \u201cultimate Jedi\u201d (as the fine print says)?<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of it?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine spotted this in a bookstore in Perth, Australia, and shared a photo. So it is a real thing. But\u00a0why is it a thing? 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