{"id":3806,"date":"2008-04-04T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/cylontology\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:57:00","slug":"cylontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/cylontology.html","title":{"rendered":"Cylontology"},"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>I doubt any of you <em>could<\/em> forget, but <em>don\u2019t<\/em> forget that tonight Battlestar Galactica returns. The religious themes will apparently continue to be explored. <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/374914\/how-would-cylons-convert-us-to-their-religion\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9 recently asked how Cylons might convert others to their religion<\/a>. The clip they featured seemed less interesting than answers to the question ought to be. Perhaps we can discuss it here!<\/p>\n<p>Also for your enjoyment, here\u2019s the New York Philharmonic performing recently in North Korea:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-877659672148448984?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt any of you could forget, but don\u2019t forget that tonight Battlestar Galactica returns. The religious themes will apparently continue to be explored. IO9 recently asked how Cylons might convert others to their religion. The clip they featured seemed less interesting than answers to the question ought to be. Perhaps we can discuss it [&hellip;]<\/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-3806","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>Cylontology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I doubt any of you could forget, but don&#039;t forget that tonight Battlestar Galactica returns. 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