{"id":3987,"date":"2007-12-23T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/advancing-the-butlerian-jihad\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T22:51:00","slug":"advancing-the-butlerian-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/advancing-the-butlerian-jihad.html","title":{"rendered":"Advancing the Butlerian Jihad"},"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 will be adding a new blog to my blogroll. It is the scarcely pronouncable <a href=\"http:\/\/secher-nbiw.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Secher Nbiw<\/a>, a relatively new blog by a Butler University student.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve long thought that there should be a religion club at Butler University named the Butlerian Jihad, but I thought there might be too many people on campus and elsewhere who haven\u2019t read <em>Dune<\/em> and wouldn\u2019t get the joke.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the blogosphere, Cobalt!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6855163156309229281?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be adding a new blog to my blogroll. It is the scarcely pronouncable Secher Nbiw, a relatively new blog by a Butler University student. 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