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6-6-06<\/strong><\/p>\n

It really does not matter to me whether Jesus of Nazareth existed or not<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it is clever from a marketing point of view that the same director<\/a> who made that movie plans to release one called The Beast<\/em> on June 6, 2006, “about a Christian girl who discovers evidence that Jesus Christ never existed.”<\/p>\n

I wonder who else is eying the same release date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6-6-06 It really does not matter to me whether Jesus of Nazareth existed or not. But it is clever from a marketing point of view that the same director who made that movie plans to release one called The Beast on June 6, 2006, “about a Christian girl who discovers evidence that Jesus Christ never […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-451","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":877,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=877","url_meta":{"origin":451,"position":0},"title":"Reading Augustine on Polytheism","author":"Chas S. 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