{"id":2252,"date":"2011-01-01T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2011-01-01T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T19:21:51","slug":"dont-mess-with-the-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2252","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Mess with the Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Abraham at Religion Nerd<\/em> (in the sidebar) lists the most outrageous religion videos of 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n

Included is the Christine O’Donnell “I’m not a witch” clip that prompted so many Wiccan responses and parodies. “Dabble-gate,” as Jason Pitzl-Waters calls it, also made it to number three on his top ten Pagan news stories of 2010 list.<\/a><\/p>\n

But I agree with Abraham that the best video was a well-researched rap video based on Martin Luther’s 95 Theses<\/a>, complete with reference to Philip of Hesse<\/a>. Which is really fun if you are, in fact, a religion nerd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heather Abraham at Religion Nerd (in the sidebar) lists the most outrageous religion videos of 2010. Included is the Christine O’Donnell “I’m not a witch” clip that prompted so many Wiccan responses and parodies. “Dabble-gate,” as Jason Pitzl-Waters calls it, also made it to number three on his top ten Pagan news stories of 2010 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,24],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Ak","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3646,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3646","url_meta":{"origin":2252,"position":0},"title":"Why is Saturn\/Cronus in Saturnalia?","author":"Chas S. 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