{"id":1639,"date":"2013-01-07T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/eminems-three-commandments.html"},"modified":"2013-01-07T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T13:07:00","slug":"eminems-three-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/eminems-three-commandments.html","title":{"rendered":"Eminem&#8217;s Three Commandments"},"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><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: none;line-height: 20px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Marshall Bruce Mathers III is no longer simply a birth name. It is a household name. Marshall Mathers is Eminem\u2019s true, intimate, ultimate and permanent self. In Eminem\u2019s music, we come to know Mathers as Eminem\u2019s spiritual self, the one who explains good and bad behavior and communicates attitudes and morals. Mathers also handles the stresses created by Eminem\u2019s fame and Shady\u2019s controversies as well as his own personal demons.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: none;line-height: 20px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2011\/11\/lady_gaga_kanye_west_jay_z_the_conspiracy_theories_that_say_pop_stars_are_illuminati_pawns.html\" style=\"border: none;color: #e43300;cursor: pointer;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;text-decoration: initial\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Conspiratorial theories<\/a>\u00a0asserting that Mathers is either a Satanist or an Illuminati pawn have reached a broad, mass audience through the Internet. Now, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allhiphop.com\/2013\/01\/01\/hip-hop-rumors-has-eminem-turned-his-life-over-to-god\/\" style=\"border: none;color: #e43300;cursor: pointer;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;text-decoration: initial\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">new meme<\/a>\u00a0has been added to the rapper\u2019s spiritual story. Rumor has it that Mathers is now a Born Again Christian. According to rap\u2019s and religion\u2019s insiders, Eminem has \u201cturned his life over to Christ,\u201d and is \u201cbuilding a relationship with God and using that to help him spiritually, and with his addiction problems.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: none;line-height: 20px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/marcia-alesan-dawkins\/eminems-three-commandments_b_2421482.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Bruce Mathers III is no longer simply a birth name. It is a household name. Marshall Mathers is Eminem\u2019s true, intimate, ultimate and permanent self. 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