{"id":1295,"date":"2002-01-30T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2002-01-31T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2002-01-30T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2002-01-31T00:00:19","slug":"in_god_we_antit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/30\/in_god_we_antit.html","title":{"rendered":"In God We Antitrust"},"content":{"rendered":"

Per this week’s Onion<\/a>: <\/p>\n

JUDGE ORDERS GOD TO BREAK UP INTO SMALLER DEITIES
\nWASHINGTON, DC\u2014Calling the theological giant’s stranglehold on the religion industry “blatantly anti-competitive,” a U.S. district judge ruled Monday that God is in violation of anti-monopoly laws and ordered Him to be broken up into several less powerful deities.
\n“The evidence introduced in this trial has convinced me that the deity known as God has willfully and actively thwarted competition from other deities and demigods, promoting His worship with such unfair scare tactics as threatening non-believers with eternal damnation,” wrote District Judge Charles Elliot Schofield in his decision. “In the process, He has carved out for Himself an illegal monotheopoly.”<\/p>\n

And much, much more. I love that paper.<\/p>\n

(Via Dave Sutherland)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Per this week’s Onion: JUDGE ORDERS GOD TO BREAK UP INTO SMALLER DEITIES WASHINGTON, DC\u2014Calling the theological giant’s stranglehold on the religion industry “blatantly anti-competitive,” a U.S. district judge ruled…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51818,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/23\/sanays-super-team.html","url_meta":{"origin":1295,"position":0},"title":"“Sanjay’s Super Team”","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Jul-15 9:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"This looks pretty cool, if only because I loved Sanjay Patel's \"Little Book of Hindu Deities\" (http:\/\/amzn.com\/0452287758), as did my daughter. 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