{"id":495,"date":"2010-12-30T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/jesus-in-space-and-mormonism-in-music\/"},"modified":"2010-12-30T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T12:10:00","slug":"jesus-in-space-and-mormonism-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/jesus-in-space-and-mormonism-in-music.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus in Space (and Mormonism in Music)"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Mormon-christus-at-salt-lake1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/religionnerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Mormon-christus-at-salt-lake1.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionnerd.com\/2010\/12\/29\/jesus-in-space\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religion Nerd has a post entitled \u201cJesus in Space\u201d<\/a> that tells of a look into Mormon art and music, and the fascinating discoveries the blog\u2019s author made in the process about the interplanetary cosmology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and its theology. In the process, you get the lyrics and a clip of a Mormon hymn, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WwYm_mKQ3Gs&amp;feature=player_embedded\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">If You Could Hie To Kolob<\/a>\u201d as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xix9Ngbr2Mc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">some seriously hard rock music from The Osmonds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I presume you\u2019re convinced by now that you should click the link, so I would hate to delay you too much longer. But also worth mentioning here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/december\/31.46.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article in <i>Christianity Today<\/i> with the title \u201cChrist of the Klingons\u201d<\/a> about God, string theory, multiple universes, extraterrestrial life, and Christian doctrine (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1665&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+tgdarkly\/fVpC+(Through+a+Glass+Darkly)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Opderbeck<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1529266637216312057?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion Nerd has a post entitled \u201cJesus in Space\u201d that tells of a look into Mormon art and music, and the fascinating discoveries the blog\u2019s author made in the process about the interplanetary cosmology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and its theology. 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