There’s a sci-fi book series called Hyperion where one of the main fucuses of the far-future theocratic government is to search for signs and symbolism of Jesus on other planets. Since if you find an alien species worshipping Jesus or using cross symbolism, you’ve all but proven that God exists.
Will be reading this if you think it’s worth it.
I’m a huge fan of classic sci-fi (Asimov, Heinlein). How does it hold up?
And before someone eats me alive about Heinlein, I’ve heard it all. Been a fan since I was a kid and the ideological side of it doesn’t matter to me as much as the stories these days. I’m an atheist because of authors like him. I wouldn’t take it back for anything.
Strange to me to our Asimov and Heinlein in the same genre. That’s like when I start Spotify Radio from Cheryl Crow and get Metallica and Green Day because Spotify thinks I’m looking for “90s music”
The first book is phenomenal. The others are good, but not necessarily “must read”
It’s like The Canterbury Tales in space. It’s four books, but the first one stands on its own.
Hyperion was a fun read. Definitely recommend. I had a small book club and it was fun to talk about.
“This is my blood” was actually a miscommunication, he meant that the cup he was holding was his and it was full of blood he didn’t want to share.
Looool
If you like old school scifi you’ll probably like it. It’s a grand opera. Prolog to the first book is online here:
Or aliens copied 3rd century Rome.
You will prove that one god exists?
Or even less, you will prove that someone with god-like powers exists?
Or even less, you will prove tat we live in a simulation written by some christian sect.
Well, Jesus claimed to be God and the only God at that
To be exact, it was a few centuries later that people told that about him, before it was written down.
No, it was a matter of decades. And even then, most facts about historical figures from then are written down centuries later.
‘facts’
Where was Julius Caesar born?
If all successful civilizations believe in something isomorphic to the Pythagorean theorem, then this is evidence that it’s real.
God works the same way.
Maybe we need to give an offering of Viagra if we want Jesus to come again.
If y’all think Jesus is so good you should meet his hermalito lupe.
It’s so interesting to see reactions of horror triggered by a mention of kindness suddenly putting one’s own actions into perspective.
Because that’s where I got it from, that’s where I linked the source to
understandable, have a good day
I second this.
I can’t read these comics without being reminded of a character in Community reading “Warren Piece”
If Jesus were to show up on an alien planet would He be incarnate as an alien
Yes.
The question is, would he be alien to us or them.
Might also depend - were these aliens created also in God’s image? Do they have original sin?
Yeah, but wait until you hear what these green guys did to Santa.
HO HO HO
Actually, he only cums once a year.
A press conference with aliens? I don’t think so. They’ll be killed and get a very detailed autopsy as soon as they put their feet on the ground
Then I hope they have no feet! 🤪
Unless we were threatened with overwhelming power.
we enshrined his torture and put it literally everywhere. you think that might have anything to do with it?
Well people said if he comes back he’s going to slaughter all of us, maybe making him afraid to come back is the point? Haha
Only those who don’t like Him
Nah, hes supposed to take all of the ones that followed him to heaven to, so everyone dies right?
Actually only the souls of the saved go to heaven. The bodies stay behind, and without any clear cause of death they become feral animals that sublimate their previously-ennobled desire for human togetherness into a simple guttural desire to consume human flesh.
The rest of us unrepentant sinners are left conscious among this new sea of soulless flesh, to defend ourselves against their ravenous teeth.
The saved man does not live on bread alone. He also desires communion, and Jesus has left the building.
Is this an actual theological position or did you just make it up
What’s the difference?
The rapture is unbiblical anyway. None of this really comes from the actual text - it’s squinting and connecting random unconnected Bible verses.
We’re not talking about the rapture, we’re talking about the second coming.
The rapture is the unbiblical doctrine that all of the people who are saved will just disappear and the rest will be left behind.
Is The Rapture threatening us with a good time?
Also, I didn’t know the difference between the rapture and the second coming of Jesus so thanks for the info!
I used to be in the same boat- I just thought the rapture was a synonym for the second coming. It’s rapture theology that’s unbiblical, but not the second coming itself.
Well, Jesus also said the worst people are the people to make a big public show of being religious, and that when they get to judgement day he’s gonna be like “I never knew ye” because they were terrible and false.
We tortured Him first
I mean, he got better so it’s nbd right?
He forgives us if we come to Him :)
It’s not like all humankind suffers and he is a relatable representation of our own suffering. Kind of like Iron Man or other heroes.
Well, Iron Man was crucified for our sins.
As was James T. Kirk.
#Jesusdiditfirst
Iron Man had the best last words of the three.
Look, if they did that to Jesus they will do the same or worse to you without batting an eye.
“you think if JFK comes back he wants to see sniper rifles everywhere?”
Explanation: humans suck
Jesus ain’t coming back until people stop wearing crosses around their neck, scaring him away.
Jesus is a vampire?
Zombie. Undead, eats flesh and blood, isn’t allergic to sunlight, infection spreads through contact. Zombie.
Inverse zombie. Living people eat his flesh.
To Francis from Left 4 Dead, there is no difference between a zombie and a vampire.
I think they mean because Jesus was supposedly murdered on a cross, and then his followers wear said cross as a symbol of their love for him or some shit - which is honestly kind of weird.
You think that’s weird? They drink his blood and eat his flesh too.
I wouldn’t come back either
I mean, He told us to
More like “what didn’t we do?”
Am I right?
Like 90% of what he told us to do, for starters.
That 10% is doing a lot of work here
Jesus: “Love one another.”
Everyone else: “We’re gonna kill that son of a bitch.”
We killed God. And we’d do it again if given the chance.
Oh, I know a good chunk of this country seeing a brown skinned guy helping out the poor and being all woke and shit, would put him right back up on that cross.
God creates earth. God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys god. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.
Life, uh, finds a way.
