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I was looking around for ways to create comic strips using online templates, and actually found a site which even has pre-prepared characters, including Jesus and a redshirt<\/a>. The combination was too much of an anomaly to not try to do something with it\u2026<\/p>\n

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At this stage, I\u2019m not expecting this to be a regular feature on this blog. But then again, when you get a Starfleet crewmember and Jesus talking, anything could happen\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"