{"id":9248,"date":"2010-07-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/07\/raelians-want-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-in-the-west\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T12:00:00","slug":"raelians-want-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/07\/raelians-want-to-rehabilitate-the-swastika-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Raelians Want To Rehabilitate The Swastika in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Religion News Service<\/p>\n<p>June 27, 2010: The Raelians have designated June 27 as &#8220;World Swastika Rehabilitation Day,&#8221; saying the ancient symbol should no longer be damned by its ties to Nazism. The swastika was adopted by the Nazi Party in the 1920s. A version of the swastika dates to ancient India, where it is still used as a religious symbol.<\/p>\n<p>Raelian Movement spokesman Ricky Roehr said the &#8220;extraordinary emblem was given to us by our creators, advanced extraterrestrial scientists who came to Earth thousands of years ago.&#8221; Raelism, which was founded in 1974, came to public attention in 2002 by claiming to have created a human clone. Many doubted the evidence. Raelians believe all life on earth was created by aliens, called the Elohim, in a laboratory far, far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Religion News Service June 27, 2010: The Raelians have designated June 27 as &#8220;World Swastika Rehabilitation Day,&#8221; saying the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}