Yes Poweless,a good twist indeed.

Now, what about injecting something really offensive into the story?

You know, as with the old adage from deepest deepest 'Deliverance' Tasmania (or Qld/WA/NT)'vice is nice, but incest is best'.

We could have the hero grow up, get crucified as in the great fable, but be rescued from the tomb by the harlots of the city who hide him, feed him up and then, being harldy an Earthling in the first place, he marries his mother, producing a whole tribe of royal princes, who set out to the 12 corners of the flat Earth and begat entire nations of peoples who are forever destined to not hear a word of what their cousins say, so babbled up in religion, bigotry and stupidity as their thinking and speech is, that end times come and there are no non-sinners left to get transported up to meet the Big Galah after all.

Dear AP,

Ah, but you could reincarnate Him.
The possibilities are endless.
In story telling the only limit,
is - your imagination.

I suppose this post can be viewed as trolling but it comes from my frustration with creationists and worst of all young earth creationists. If they want to believe in the literal nature of a text there are much better ones out there to choose from. I accept that some don't believe in the literal nature of genesis but some do. My problem is that many people do not question religious texts and my "fan fiction" was a (very poor) attempt to get people to ask why the believe what they believe considering the poor quality of the text.

thecat

don't be to dissappointed. Your attempt was as scholarly as any evolutionary explanation.

Literalism has its own problems... if we're trying to define 'scholarly'.

One of my favorites is from Numbers 22 - especially the bit where the angel of the Lord spoke through his ass.

Dear TC,

Most people don't take the Bible literally.
Even Cardinal Pell described it as "symbolic."
And he's not alone. Biblical scholars interpret
the story of the Creation as a symbolic, rather
than literal account of the origin of human beings
and other living things. They don't find this
symbolic interpretation incompatible with the
findings of evolutionary biologists. For many
people, the idea that human beings evolved from
lower forms of life does not diminish the
uniqueness of human capabilities and the
accomplishments of human civilisations.