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“Are you ready to get your Jesus on?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

is a line from Saved<\/em><\/a>, a new high-school comedy set in a private Christian school, and it’s already being denounced predictably<\/a> as “extremely offensive” from that quarter. National Public Radio’s Bob Mondello’s audio review is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, if you have recovered from the culture-war battle over Mel Gibson’s Passion<\/em><\/a>, get ready for another one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Are you ready to get your Jesus on?” is a line from Saved, a new high-school comedy set in a private Christian school, and it’s already being denounced predictably as “extremely offensive” from that quarter. National Public Radio’s Bob Mondello’s audio review is here. Yes, if you have recovered from the culture-war battle over Mel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-205","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5254,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5254","url_meta":{"origin":205,"position":0},"title":"Adolescent Rebellion as “Mental Illness”","author":"Chas S. 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