Ok, here's a little end-times trivia : tongue planted firmly in cheek of course
Question 1: Given that our current climate of militaristic Pagan administration and hollow, pharisaical religious establishment closely resembles Judea at the time of Jesus, and using his first coming as a model, who would he be (humanly speaking), where would he appear and what would he do if he came now?
Here's a couple to get you going:
1: He would be a black bus driver from New Orleans who recently lost his house in Katrina .. He would make a name for himself roundly criticizing the Bush administration for not helping and not caring. He would head up protests and hungerstrikes until finally getting put in jail: after extensive lobbying by the Christian Right!
2: He would be a monk of indiscriminate religious affiliation, complaining that it was not in fact himself who founded Christianity, but Constantine among others, and that tons of them have got it all wrong and they shouldn't be naming this thing after him! And finally he would be put in jail: after extensive lobbying by the Christian Right!
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I don't have enough imagination to picture Jesus as anything other than how we see him portrayed in the New Testament. Certainly, we can try to imagine what that might look like in a modern context...
I also tend to see him coming out of the Conservative Christian Southern US. A Messianic Jew (of course), he is the son of a respected but unassuming mayor/small business owner in Stumblebutt, Georgia. He follows in his father's footsteps but instead of quiet dissention of the hypocrisy of the "Moral Majority", he begins a grassroots, socialist, civil rights-based counter-cultural movement. This controversial group undermines the American dream and flys in the face of Christian Conservatism and is eventually linked (unfoundedly) to other counter-cultural groups that have somewhat more sinister means of getting their message across. He is deemed a terrorist threat by the powers that be and is quietly arrested and shipped to a foreign US military installation for processing. He is beaten and tortured and dies because of unrelated health complications that are aggrivated during the ordeal. Of course, the government disavows any knowledge of him and his followers go to the media where the story is picked up because of it's general fantastical qualities. Some people take up the cause, while others dismiss the whole thing as a farce, but meanwhile, the political climate gets darker and darker....
Then again, maybe "he" is a "she". Think about THAT the next time you're high.
WHAT FUN!
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