{"id":474,"date":"2010-01-12T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/?p=474"},"modified":"2010-02-02T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T09:13:37","slug":"think-of-religion-as-a-movie%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Think of religion as a movie\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I was trying to remember an excellent explanation of the main religions to my girlfriend. It involved movies and sequels, I was finally able to find it back (Internet is wonderful place):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThink of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu\u2019ran comes out, ant if retcons (Retroactive continuity) the last one like it never happened. There\u2019s still Jesus, but he\u2019s not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn\u2019t shown up yet.<\/p>\n<p>Jews like the first movies but ignored the sequels, Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third movie doesn\u2019t count, Moslems think the third one was the best, and Mormons liked the second so much they started writing fan fiction that doesn\u2019t fit with any of the series canon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Unknown Author<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit of a shortcut but it sums it up enough to make it understandable to a neophyte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I was trying to remember an excellent explanation of the main religions to my girlfriend. It involved movies and sequels, I was finally able to find it back (Internet is wonderful place): \u201cThink of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","column","twocol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.0blivion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}