{"id":648,"date":"2010-11-06T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/11\/the-spiritual-journey-of-julia-sweeney.html"},"modified":"2010-11-06T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T20:54:00","slug":"the-spiritual-journey-of-julia-sweeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/11\/the-spiritual-journey-of-julia-sweeney.html","title":{"rendered":"The Spiritual Journey Of Julia Sweeney"},"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>Here\u2019s some Saturday afternoon fun.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first fifteen minutes of Julia Sweeney\u2019s one woman show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/julia_sweeney_on_letting_go_of_god.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Letting Go of God<\/i><\/a>, her personal story of abandoning her search for God and becoming an atheist.\u00a0 This is from her TED Talk. \u00a0You can get the whole thing on DVD or as an online audiobook. \u00a0Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<div>Enjoy!<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s some Saturday afternoon fun.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first fifteen minutes of Julia Sweeney\u2019s one woman show, Letting Go of God, her personal story of abandoning her search for God and becoming an atheist.\u00a0 This is from her TED Talk. \u00a0You can get the whole thing on DVD or as an online audiobook. \u00a0Highly recommended. 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