{"id":3841,"date":"2016-04-18T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2016-04-18T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:16:12","slug":"baals-anticipated-erection-undone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/04\/18\/baals-anticipated-erection-undone\/","title":{"rendered":"Baal&#8217;s Anticipated Erection Undone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the inimitable <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/anjuli\/2016\/04\/16\/lest-i-be-accused-of-picking-on-muslims\/\" target=\"_blank\">Autonomous Individual<\/a> over at FtB, we have word of Christian prayer warriors celebrating\u00a0their great victory over presumably Satanic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/palmyra-arch-that-survived-isis-will-be-recreated-in-new-york-and-london\" target=\"_blank\">digital archaeologists<\/a> wielding a demonic 3-D printer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Temple of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Baal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Baal<\/a> NOT coming to New York <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4THBqvXsAI\">https:\/\/t.co\/4THBqvXsAI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gwtmWQZWSC\">pic.twitter.com\/gwtmWQZWSC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TruNews\u2122 (@TruNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TruNews\/status\/719608533776527361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: Plan to erect Baal temple is scrapped. Hallelujah! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NaWDjf4H33\">https:\/\/t.co\/NaWDjf4H33<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrEowyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrEowyn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eowyn (@DrEowyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrEowyn\/status\/719871732375392256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The word is that the Temple of Baal unveiling has been cancelled <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0oMnJJLS39\">https:\/\/t.co\/0oMnJJLS39<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Clyde Lewis (@ClydeLewis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClydeLewis\/status\/720021455170355206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GOOD NEWS: Plans to build Temple of Baal in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewYork?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewYork<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/London?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#London<\/a> are canceled. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rQM1oD1tui\">https:\/\/t.co\/rQM1oD1tui<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nPbOEtDeQ7\">pic.twitter.com\/nPbOEtDeQ7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CBN News (@CBNNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBNNews\/status\/720355988960780288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VICTORY! TEMPLE OF BAAL ARCH PLANNED FOR NEW YORK CITY: CANCELED &#8211; YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qCbJEhaFDs\">https:\/\/t.co\/qCbJEhaFDs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u274c\u01ac\u03b1\u0432\u03b9\u0442\u043d\u03b1 \u0181\u2113\u03b9\u0455\u0455\u274c \ud83d\udc60\ud83d\udc84\ud83d\udc5b\ud83d\udd2b (@BlissTabitha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlissTabitha\/status\/720745169818005504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The good skeptics over at Snopes have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/temple-of-baal-in-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">the full story<\/a>, complete with actual facts, free from any eschatological speculation. I find it a bit disturbing to think that some of my fellow Americans are so enamored with magical thinking as to imbue a piece of architecture with magical malevolent powers, but by now I really should stop being surprised at such things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the inimitable Autonomous Individual over at FtB, we have word of Christian prayer warriors celebrating\u00a0their great victory over presumably&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}