{"id":26336,"date":"2013-08-24T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=26336"},"modified":"2013-08-24T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:37:24","slug":"the-nation-of-islam-and-scientology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=26336","title":{"rendered":"The Nation of Islam and Scientology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; at the confluence of two relatively new religious movements ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known for a while that Minister <strong>Louis Farrakhan<\/strong> had expressed a positive view of L Ron Hubbard&#8217;s Scientology, but this short clip from a Nation of Islam leadership talk took me by surprise:<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nzhpGgSZqX8?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nzhpGgSZqX8?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a member of either faith, let alone both &#8212; but as a student of religions I find possible confluences between them &#8212; such as this one promises to be &#8212; fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; at the confluence of two relatively new religious movements ] . I&#8217;ve known for a while that Minister Louis Farrakhan had expressed a positive view of L Ron Hubbard&#8217;s Scientology, but this short clip from a Nation of Islam leadership talk took me by surprise: . . I am not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791,526,533,1,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-charles-cameron","category-religion","category-uncategorized","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26336"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26347,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26336\/revisions\/26347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}