{"id":994,"date":"2010-04-14T06:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T06:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-church-of-atlantis\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:08:46","slug":"the-church-of-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-church-of-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The<\/strong><strong> Church of Atlantis, <\/strong>according to its rather flimsy website (now closed down) claimed to be a non-sectarian spiritual movement, founded on the belief that the American continent is Atlantis. I wonder what Plato would have made of it.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, there is an institution<sup>(a)<\/sup> called the Atlantis Church of Christ, which is not linked to Plato\u2019s story but is named after the district in which it is situated.<\/p>\n<p>In Brownsville, Texas, there is the Church of the Divine Spirit\/Atlantis Books<sup>(b)<\/sup>, which, among its services, offers a \u2018Lemurian Crystal Light spa\u2019. This blending of Christianity and New Age drivel seems to be gaining ground.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201125221108\/http:\/\/www.churchofchristonline.co.za\/directory\/south_africa\/western_cape\/3146-atlantis-church-of-christ.html\">Churches of Christ Online &#8211; Atlantis Church of Christ (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130730052644\/http:\/\/local.yahoo.com\/info-41151224-church-of-the-divine-spirit-atlantis-books-brownsville\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130730052644\/http:\/\/local.yahoo.com\/info-41151224-church-of-the-divine-spirit-atlantis-books-brownsville<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Atlantis, according to its rather flimsy website (now closed down) claimed to be a non-sectarian spiritual movement, founded on the belief that the American continent is Atlantis. I wonder what Plato would have made of it. In South Africa, there is an institution(a) called the Atlantis Church of Christ, which is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66023,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/66023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}