{"id":539,"date":"2010-12-22T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/sci-fi-saviors\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T13:14:00","slug":"sci-fi-saviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/sci-fi-saviors.html","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi Saviors"},"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:\/\/thelaymansanswerstoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/1TronJesus.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaymansanswerstoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/1TronJesus.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>One obvious point of intersection between religion and science fiction is that both tend to feature a savior figure. <\/p>\n<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5715097\/10-signs-you-could-be-the-chosen-savior\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9 offered a tongue-in-cheek list of 10 signs that you could be the chosen savior<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And Marc Oromaner at Diary of a Layman offered a post, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thelaymansanswerstoeverything.com\/2010\/12\/21\/diary-of-a-layman-20-fall-was-jesus-a-user\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Was Jesus a User?<\/a>\u201d exploring the religious aspects of a variety of virtual worlds featured in a range of science fiction movies, including TRON, which provided the language used in the title of his post, as well as the image on the right.<\/p>\n<p>(If his name sounds familiar, you may have read Marc\u2019s series \u201cLost in Myth\u201d back when LOST was on TV).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8516596572043308427?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One obvious point of intersection between religion and science fiction is that both tend to feature a savior figure. 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