{"id":43404,"date":"2015-02-14T21:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T21:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=43404"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T21:18:59","slug":"ah-religion-the-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=43404","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Religion: the trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; on turning the other cheek once, or even twice, perhaps ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/scuWiXG5bh8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Wall Street Journal<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wwrn.org\/articles\/43926\/\">has the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a preview trailer for a new action movie, famed Indian spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan takes on sabre-wielding villains, splinters a log with his fist and rides a monster-wheeled motorcycle in a high-speed chase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome call me a saint, some call me an angel, some call me guru and some call me God,\u201d Mr. Insan intones in a voice-over. \u201cIf it is a sin to serve the country and the universe, then I will keep committing this sin until my last breath.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sample wisdom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In another musical number, Mr. Insan, wearing tightfitting gold pants, red boots and an oversize red top riveted with gold stars, performs a patriotic song that he says he wrote himself, dedicated to his followers in the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll live and die for the country,\u201d Mr. Insan croons to a jubilant crowd in an amphitheater with a band playing behind him. \u201cFirst, we\u2019ll stop them with love, weapons of humanity. If they don\u2019t stop, we will shoot them!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That, btw, is Plan B: if love doesn&#8217;t work, try deadly force.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon to a shrine-room near you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; on turning the other cheek once, or even twice, perhaps ] . ** The Wall Street Journal has the story: In a preview trailer for a new action movie, famed Indian spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan takes on sabre-wielding villains, splinters a log with his fist and rides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,832,67,782,688,533,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-hinduism","category-movies","category-pacifism","category-peace","category-religion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43404","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=43404"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43426,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43404\/revisions\/43426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}