{"id":687,"date":"2002-09-14T11:06:40","date_gmt":"2002-09-14T19:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/14\/says-god\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:52:46","slug":"says-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/14\/says-god\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;says God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15857,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.saysgod.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251123210949\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.saysgod.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 23:51:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 23:51:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15858,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2002_09_01_archive.html#85440099&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110623132130\\\/http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2002_09_01_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 23:51:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 23:51:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  And it came to pass that God visited the earth, and He did behold a series of billboard ads attributing to Him utterances of such banality that they would never pass His lips in a billion years. And it came to pass that God in His wrath considered a libel suit, but in the end opted simply to mount a cantankerous, self-contradictory <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saysgod.com\/\" title=\"...says God\">ad campaign of His own&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    I never said, &#8220;Thou shalt not think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    I don&#8217;t care who started it. Just stop it.<\/p>\n<p>    You&#8217;d better have stopped fighting by the time I get back, or you&#8217;re all grounded.<\/p>\n<p>    There is no such thing as killing in my name.<\/p>\n<p>    Stop smirking, America. I&#8217;m talking to you, too.\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_09_01_archive.html#85440099\" title=\"Boing Boing: God lashes out\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it came to pass that God visited the earth, and He did behold a series of billboard ads attributing to Him utterances of such banality that they would never pass His lips in a billion years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}