{"id":4249,"date":"2007-09-25T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/09\/the-force-among-us-discussion-of-star-wars-and-religion\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T11:11:00","slug":"the-force-among-us-discussion-of-star-wars-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/09\/the-force-among-us-discussion-of-star-wars-and-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"The Force Among Us: Discussion of Star Wars and Religion"},"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>On October 7th at 9pm Eastern Time there will be an online \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkshoe.com\/talkshoe\/web\/talkCast.jsp?masterId=39926&amp;cmd=tc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">episode<\/a>\u201c, connected to the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theforceamongus.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Force Among Us<\/a>, about <a href=\"http:\/\/show.tfau.net\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">religious themes in Star Wars<\/a>. 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