{"id":3815,"date":"2008-04-02T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/freedom-friday\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T08:36:00","slug":"freedom-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/freedom-friday.html","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Friday?"},"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>The funniest April Fools jokes are the ones made by people trying to be serious. The folks promoting the movie Expelled are billing its release as \u201cFreedom Friday\u201d. But the funniest part is that the promotional e-mail suggests renting a theater for a local showing. Why is this hilarious? Because last I heard, the movie\u2019s promoters were <em>paying people to see it<\/em>. Now suddenly the public will be renting theaters to see it? Definitely April Fool\u2019s Day\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/R_N-DfDRoTI\/AAAAAAAAAGc\/lFuVmiTGXnE\/s1600-h\/Expelled1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/R_N-DfDRoTI\/AAAAAAAAAGc\/lFuVmiTGXnE\/s320\/Expelled1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> I wish I had photoshop here at work. There are so many things that Ben and Darwin could be presented as thinking or saying in the above image. 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