{"id":13626,"date":"2015-02-03T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackhunt.net\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2015-02-03T10:04:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:04:01","slug":"week-jesus-volume-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2015\/02\/week-jesus-volume-6\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Jesus &#8211; Volume 6"},"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>Welcome back to my regularly scheduled sounding, but in reality\u00a0completely lacking in any regularity series affectionately and uncreatively known as <em>This Week In Jesus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we say hello to the apocalypse and goodbye to car insurance.<\/p>\n<p>But first up, we have the worst or at least the grossest Jesus appearance of all time.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, a woman from the town of Crowthorne (English towns sound so much cooler than ours) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/mums-spots-face-jesus-bird-5089807\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">convinced that a bird pooped the image of Jesus<\/a> onto the window of her BMW.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13627\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2015\/02\/birdjesus.jpg\" alt=\"birdjesus\" width=\"615\" height=\"409\">(Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/mums-spots-face-jesus-bird-5089807\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Mirror<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00EHFJNPW\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00EHFJNPW&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=amerjesu-20&amp;linkId=HTQARLS6PKQ5VN76\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the mask from <em>Scream<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=amerjesu-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00EHFJNPW\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">. But either way, that\u2019s one talented bird.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the UK, it appears that though its feathery citizens may be big fans of Jesus, its insurance adjusters are not.<\/p>\n<p>A pastor in Cymmer (like I said, they have cool town names) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-south-west-wales-31064998\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">claims her car insurance company invalidated her policy<\/a> because it said the giant Jesus stickers she plastered on each side of her minivan count as modifications that are not allowed by her policy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13628\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2015\/02\/jesusvan.jpg\" alt=\"jesusvan\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\">(Credit: BBC)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is religious persecution afoot in Great Britain, but the real sin here isn\u2019t discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the minivan.<\/p>\n<p>Staying with our European theme, the apocalypse\u00a0is officially at hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-31042477\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">A tech company in Sweden is implanting chips<\/a> under the skin of its\u00a0employees hands in order to grant them secure keyless\u00a0access into the building and\u00a0ease the burden of having to memorize a code to use the copying machine.<\/p>\n\n<p>Of course, the only possible explanation for this hi-tech innovation is that it is not simply a hi-tech innovation meant to increase security and ease routine office tasks, but rather it is, in fact, the Mark of the Beast that will soon be forced upon us all by the Anti-Christ who, it appears, is Swedish.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we come back home for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songear.com\/christian-t-shirts\/mens-christian-t-shirts\/red-jesus-saves-t-shirt\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a shirt<\/a> that is nothing less than wow.<\/p>\n<p>As in, \u201cWow, I didn\u2019t realize salvation was established in 1776. I guess you do learn something new everyday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2015\/02\/jesussavesshirt.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13630\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jesussavesshirt-1024x585.png\" alt=\"jesussavesshirt\" width=\"900\" height=\"514\"><\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.songear.com\/christian-t-shirts\/mens-christian-t-shirts\/red-jesus-saves-t-shirt\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Credit: SonGear<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s it for this installment of\u00a0<em>This Week In Jesus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you know of any Jesusy stories I missed that need to be shared this week, do your brothers and sisters a favor and share them in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to my regularly scheduled sounding, but in reality\u00a0completely lacking in any regularity series affectionately and uncreatively known as This Week In Jesus. 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