Where do you punch Christ?
July 7, 2016 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2016 at 4:43 pm by Fake Messiah.)
What do you know, in the earlier drafts for 1st Star Trek movie, Roddenberry imagined Kirk fighting Christ who came back, you know instead of V'ger there was supposed to be Jesus. So, in the name of art and fan fiction, I was wondering what do you think fight would look like? Where do you punch Christ? Would there be obligatory punch in the nutsack? Would Kirk pull hid beard? It would be funny Jesus punching Kirk in the middle of the face and you see Kirk's nose protruding trough the hand wound.
Here's some info on the script:
At one point in this movie script, which came to be known unofficially as “The God Thing,” the alien force assumes (reverts to?) the form of Jesus Christ and asks if Kirk knows him. Kirk says he does.
Trek novelist Michael Jan Friedman was approached by Paramount-owned Pocket Books to novelize Roddenberry’s “God Thing” script for publication. Friedman says he was “dismayed” when he read Roddenberry's screenplay:
It was disjointed — scenes didn’t work together, didn’t build toward anything meaningful. Kirk, Spock and McCoy didn’t seem anything like themselves. There was some mildly erotic, midlife-crisis stuff in there that didn’t serve any real purpose. In the climactic scene, Kirk had a fistfight with an alien who had assumed the image of Jesus Christ.
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Here's some info on the script:
At one point in this movie script, which came to be known unofficially as “The God Thing,” the alien force assumes (reverts to?) the form of Jesus Christ and asks if Kirk knows him. Kirk says he does.
Trek novelist Michael Jan Friedman was approached by Paramount-owned Pocket Books to novelize Roddenberry’s “God Thing” script for publication. Friedman says he was “dismayed” when he read Roddenberry's screenplay:
It was disjointed — scenes didn’t work together, didn’t build toward anything meaningful. Kirk, Spock and McCoy didn’t seem anything like themselves. There was some mildly erotic, midlife-crisis stuff in there that didn’t serve any real purpose. In the climactic scene, Kirk had a fistfight with an alien who had assumed the image of Jesus Christ.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
