{"id":920,"date":"2007-08-05T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2007-08-05T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T22:33:00","slug":"deities-scramble-after-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Deities Scramble after Bus Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> puts a new spin on the phrase “rush hour of the gods.”<\/p>\n

In the gods’ haste to resolve the matter, some of the souls were apparently misplaced. In one instance, an adherent of Buddhism slated to be reborn into an Ohio family was temporarily reincarnated as a tree sloth. And as of press time, a self-avowed atheist who at the last minute took God into his heart has yet to be retrieved from the void and placed among the faithful.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hat tip: Victoria Slind-Flor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This puts a new spin on the phrase “rush hour of the gods.” In the gods’ haste to resolve the matter, some of the souls were apparently misplaced. In one instance, an adherent of Buddhism slated to be reborn into an Ohio family was temporarily reincarnated as a tree sloth. 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Gods are real.And these gods are everywhere, in all aspects of existence, all aspects of human life.\u201d James Hillman Minneapolis writer is compiling an anthology of modern, polytheistic experiences, tentatively titled Return of the Gods: The Varieties of Polytheistic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"polytheism\"","block_context":{"text":"polytheism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=polytheism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13731,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13731","url_meta":{"origin":920,"position":4},"title":"‘Small Gods’ Is a Zine about Animism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Small Gods issue 1, 2024 Edited by Dver, a.k.a. 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