{"id":1041,"date":"2008-02-07T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/02\/07\/religion-in-a-nutshell\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T22:16:12","slug":"religion-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/02\/07\/religion-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion &#8211; in a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=235365&amp;cid=19194117\">a post on Slashdot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Son&#8230; this is the honest truth about the universe:<\/p>\n<p>The universe was created by an all-powerful all-knowing being who came down to us in the form of a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.<\/p>\n<p>Your little friends might laugh at you when you tell them, but trust me&#8230; pretty much all us grown-ups actually believe this is true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So true, so true&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a post on Slashdot: Son&#8230; this is the honest truth about the universe: The universe was created by an all-powerful all-knowing being who came down to us in the form of a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/02\/07\/religion-in-a-nutshell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Religion &#8211; in a nutshell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[46,68,66],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","tag-humor","tag-religion","tag-slashdot","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-gN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1011,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/12\/19\/another-great-one-%e2%80%93-from-slashdot\/","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":0},"title":"Another Great One \u2013 From Slashdot","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sorry, but these really do make me laugh when I run across them: I'm not tense. 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