{"id":3645,"date":"2008-06-24T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/mandaean-baptism-on-youtube\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T11:03:00","slug":"mandaean-baptism-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/mandaean-baptism-on-youtube.html","title":{"rendered":"Mandaean Baptism on YouTube"},"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>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tyJHfrnBYlo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">video clip<\/a> of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sobbiblog.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mandaean<\/a> baptism in Iran on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><p>This is only one of several video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a6URcs9d93E\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">clips<\/a> related to <a href=\"http:\/\/outofthedepths.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/mandaeans-john-christians.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WI7bc9TpvoU&amp;feature=related\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mandaeans<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/mandaeanism-threatened-as-communities.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">their<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=05X_1ibL5O4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">current plight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2274909549176388799?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a video clip of a Mandaean baptism in Iran on YouTube: This is only one of several video clips related to the Mandaeans and their current plight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mandaean Baptism on YouTube<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is a video clip of a Mandaean baptism in Iran on YouTube:This is only one of several video clips related to the Mandaeans and their current plight.\" \/>\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\/2008\/06\/mandaean-baptism-on-youtube.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mandaean Baptism on YouTube\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is a video clip of a Mandaean baptism in Iran on YouTube:This is only one of several video clips related to the Mandaeans and their current plight.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/mandaean-baptism-on-youtube.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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