Jesus Christ was a Engineer

The idea of this has been floating around, I only found out about it about 2 days before I saw the movie though..............

Ugh... i'd upload a video of me taking a ****, but... you get the idea.

Well, I for one hate that idea... If that is where this story is going than I'm done with it...(we all remember how much the second and third matrix movies sucked!) I will decide to believe in a different path for the story to take...please don't take this saga down that path!

Can you please put up the link to the interview?

I think Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof are all about eliciting provocative ideas and connections in the minds of their audience, many of which, are actually red herrings. We're never going to get complete chapter and verse about the Engineers. There's no way they could end up being anything other than [i]less[/i] interesting if Scott provided a full picture. The conversations on this board, are [i]exactly[/i] the results they are looking for in the audience.

ugh, sorry

He didn't say that. He said something along the lines of that would be a cool idea when the questioner brought it up. He mentioned Romans running around with swords and shields and the engineers sending someone to stop the madness and him getting crucified. That doesn't really hold up to ten seconds of scrutiny when you think of what Jesus actually did, though. He never went to Rome, or to any of the other major civilizations of the era that started wars and conquered people. He seemed content to let them do their thing and didn't care. He appeared to a tiny, obscure tribe in the desert, one of hundreds that had been conquered, who weren't really giving anyone trouble, to tell them they were practicing monotheism all wrong, when in the bigger picture, they were pretty much the only ones practicing it at all. If the engineers really wanted to see a more peaceful, loving mankind, it's hard to believe they would have sent a guy into the desert to reform Judaism, as insignificant as it was to the larger world.

[u][size=200]Ridley Scott said it himself, hinting towards the fact that Jesus himself was an engineer..... Any thoughts?[/size] [/u] [size=200]You think Ridley Scott is going to actually spoonfed you the plot of the sequel just because you ask?[/size] do you recall THIS phrase? "Did IQ's drop sharply while I was away?"

@loseyourname In the article i read it never once mentioned that it would be cool if someone asked that question, and sure Jesus never actually went to Rome, but Rome offiliated with rome. In the article i read it clearly said that Ridley said "they sent an emissary down to see if they could stop it," then he said "guess what?... they crucified him.." Either way I'm not getting into a Christianity debate, maybe it could be looked at both yours and my point of view, but i believe Jesus Christ, in Ridley's and Damon's whole idea with prometheus has some sort of "fit in" I don't know if it would appeal to me or not, but we don't know if it would even go into that depth of the story of the engineers and everything having to do with them.

It's a real possiblility but i don't think that's what they're going for

@Hadley's Hope i would definitely agree, no doubt i think this would go along with everything having to do with the engineers, but they most likely won't go into this kind of detail in the sequel..

@Queens Elite Guard I would agree, no doubt thats not what there going for and i believe they might hint towards it in the sequel but its not there prominent focus, the focus is towards why they created humans, and why the now want to destroy humans...

I guess it depends on how it ultimately is written. I thought it was interesting that the way the Engineer confrontation scene flows, it doesn't have the Engineer attacking anyone until after Shaw is hit by one of Weyland's security goons, hit hard when she is clearly injured. A pretty clear example of human brutality and avarice (on the part of Weyland who orders the beating). In the context of the "Jesus Hypothesis", if you wanted to eradicate a species because you determined that they were too violent and unwilling to grow and become enlightened (say they killed one of your messengers). And were then faced with, upon being awakened from your hypersleep, the brutal fact that they haven't changed much for the better in millennia. That they are for the most part still greedy, self focused, and brutal. Well, I'd assume it would only strengthen your conviction to improve the universe by removing such a blight from the universe as [i]Homo sapiens[/i] Perhaps waking up to find, what you perceive, to be the greatest potential threat to harmony in the universe has advanced sufficiently enough to gain access to your military facilities, on a distant backwater world, might make you go a bit crazy too, or more likely act with swiftness and great efficiency. The xenomorph species, while dangerous are not driven by the complexities of human culture and history. The entire xeno life cycle is predictable, and controllable, to some extent. They really aren't that intelligent, and are no more horrific than any other plague. A creature who's "structural perfection is matched only by it's hostility." is dangerous, but isn't seeking to become a god. Humans, on the other hand, have all the potential of the Engineers, in fact they share a genome, but instead of being driven by a greater sense of purpose, they seem ruled by greed, petty grievances, the quest for power, and often driven by cruelty and avarice. The Engineer's reaction in that context is understandable. He is not cruel in his dispatching of the humans, he swiftly kills them all, with the efficiency of a animal breeder culling a herd, or eliminating unhealthy stock. After seeing how the human weapons had no effect on him, it was clear he didn't not attack so swiftly out of fear. There is probably little to fear from humans in their present state of development, but their potential, and their refusal to grow and learn, make them truly dangerous in the grander vision. God is dead, or at least will be if the humans have anything to say about it. I don't think it's merely coincidence that Weyland quotes from Nietchze, the rise of the Übermensch will be the inevitable downfall of the old gods. Something the Engineers simply could not permit. If they use the Jesus thing as a device to explore the ideas and consequences of humanity moving beyond old religious and moral constructs, moving beyond the concepts of good and evil, seeking to establish for themselves a purpose, that may not be the purpose of their old gods. Then I think I'd be okay with watching that. In the end the Titans, were overthrown by their children, their offspring, members of their own [i]divine[/i] genome. Just my $0.02 X

what? Jesus was a blue BODY BUILDING giant? LOL

@FreePlanet; Yes, you would think someone would have noticed Jesus was an 8ft tall, statue man.

@xenotaph some very solid points made their, possibly if their was an engineer/jesus it was to try to convince that the engineer race (something of that area) are your masters, and that all there is to it, theres no other religions, just us.... (possibly others involved that we have yet to figure out) From that the humans get angry and punish the emissary engineer by crucifying him. Just a reminder not all my thoughts on all these prometheus topics have been finalized, I'm still clearing up what i believe and changing beliefs and adding to it...

Probably lot more believable than Jesus walked on water, rose from the dead, never had sex with that prostitute that followed him around, multiplied a fish and some bread into LOTS of fish and bread, etc etc. But 8 ft tall giant, no, that's weird. Although, the whole- virgin/immaculate birth thing DOES ring a bell... maybe an Engineer/Human hyrbid? Doesn't some "angel" come down and tell Mary that God is gonna put a baby in her belly (which would freak out a normal person *cough Shaw cough*) ?

Jesus Christ has in fact nothing to do with Prometheus and Sci-Fi. But its interesting that that ancient astronaut bullsh.it popped up since the early 70ies together with mainstream pseudo-esoteric UFO / alien stuff, many young people get confused and maybe nevertheless kinda ´inspired´ because it just kicks the uneducated minds. take care. cheers

I like this interpretation that jesus was an alien engineer very much! Its not LESS believable then the story millions of people CHOOSE to believe since hundreds of years! Hundreds of years mind-raping makes it hard to THINK ABOUT ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES. I personally am not sure if jesus ever existed. Only the bible talks about him, and the people who wrote about him EVEN NEVER MET HIM as they were born decades AFTER HIS DEATH. And as the Jesus-Story does have TO MANY attributes that already OTHER myth persons (like Osiris in egyptian myth) have (like born from a virgin, was crucified, stand up from dead after 3 days etc) its believable to me that this the jesus-story is just a FAIRYTALE. Mind-raping is very effecitve, so its hard to face the truth...

@ Frantz - you are correct, but I heard that most historians claim he had a God complex.