<div>There is the extremely controversial theory that Jesus was fathered by a Roman soldier. And now imagine if he had known that, and actually embraced his Roman side. Joining the legion, getting citizenship, working his way up the ranks using his stunning charisma and social intelligence, until finally he became emperor!!! </div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>And of course, there could have been Jesus, the emperor of peace, or Jesus, the emperor of martial conquest, or even a combination of the two. Considering the impact Jesus had on the world as a man of simple circumstances with a message of brotherhood, now consider how he might have impacted the modern day as Emperor Jesus, battle savior of the empire and all humanity!</div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>"Centurion Spike, I fondly remember serving under your command in the IV Legion engineers, North American province!" We sure taught those darn rebellious Aztecs a thing or two, didn't we?" "And so it's nice to keep in touch via the Extropius list." "Oh, did you read the latest alternative history novel by Harry Turtledove?" "He has this extremely imaginative plotline about Rome actually falling and Jesus being just a humble itinerant philosopher!" "I sure hope he's not arrested for such foolishness!" </div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>"May the ferocious love of our God Emperor Jesus Christus ever guide you to great victories in both life and death!" "And may the cities burn, and people be brought down, who defy our most Divine Lord, who now reigns in Heaven!"</div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>And would we be at the same level of technology as we are now? Or vastly less? Or even much more advanced? </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>If Jesus truly was the supernatural being that the New Testament claims, and that I believe in, then life really gets interesting if he had decided to do things much more "Old Testament" style, and taken on the role of Emperor of the Roman Empire! He could have built a near-utopian civilization and alleviated so much suffering through enlightenment, knowing that people being people, all he would have to do is stop using his powers for awhile, and there would still be an eventual plot to kill him, thereby still providing an atonement for the sins of humanity. </div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>John </div><div> <br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:28 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div><p class="MsoNormal">
We often complain about being meme-bombed this time of year with Christmas music, in the shopping mall, on the radio, everywhere, you cannot escape, resistance is futile. But the way I see it, we should look at how much worse it could be. The season is supposedly about the birth of Jesus Christ, nice snappy name there, two syllables, one syllable, crisp, clean, sounds like blammisphy. But what if… <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">What if for instance Joseph Christ had not fallen for the Virgin Mary, but rather had given in to the wily seductiveness of that little hottie in the back of the class, the foxy Hortense? Imagine the traditional Ava Maria, and substitute the other girl’s name for it. Totally goofs up the song, because of the sustained syllable would now be hooooooorrrtense, hoooooorrrrrtense… and so forth. That would just not work, the proper church ladies would be blushing, the kids would be giggling, it wouldn’t work. Perhaps we could then call the harlots mares, and even it out, but it could be still worse. For instance, what if… <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">What if Joseph Christ’s mother, instead of falling for Joe’s father Billy Christ, had taken up instead with Tommy Schmurgenmeisterstein? Then that clumsy name would have come down the line, and we would get seriously tired of hearing Ava Hortense every Schmurgenmeistersteinmas throughout all of Schmurgenmeistersteinianity. That would get so tiresome.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">So look on the bright side.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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