Jesus theory - simply NOT true!

yeah i agree : )

This article mentions more plausible reasons as to why the Engineers were coming here 2000 years ago. [url=http://wp.me/p2tPJ3-1A]HERE[/url] jesus was not a massive bald headed Engineer for frak's sake!!! TALK SENSE PEOPLES!!! ;-) FLUTE - good man!

I don't think he denies that Jesus was a space jockey either. I think it's implied and I wouldn't say it's not true till its definitely said so.

It's not directly in there, merely implied. It's up to the individual to interpret any way they want.

It's ridiculous don't you agree? What next, Jesus was Batman?

jesus was not a massive bald headed Engineer for frak's sake!!! No indeed. But he was made to have a more 'human' form!

No - not agreed. It's a BAD theory.

"Movies.com: You throw religion and spirituality into the equation for Prometheus, though, and it almost acts as a hand grenade. We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered? RS: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, “Lets’ send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him." It's better if what Ridley Scott ACTUALLY said gets known than an approximation or interpretation that puports to speak for the man himself. Movie.com article by Sean O'Connel June 5 2012

I'm not going to argue about this, I think many aspects of the movie are open to individual interpretation. What's so ridiculous about the so called (by us) Jesus being some sort of manufactured entity/emissary sent to us? Someone most likely 'manufactured' us & we will probably never find out the who or why of it.

Its ok if you don´t believe it, some people just can´t handle the truth ;•)

Good post Jett. They considered it, then scrapped it- agreed?

The truth- LOL. Gunwoman- not trying to argue dude. Apols. But you have it there from Rids! Considered it... Then scrapped...

I don´t see anywhere that it was completly scrapped. Maybe it is implied, but never actually said.

to me it says they got rid of the idea: "We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. .." ... but ok it's not EXPLICITLY said. Other's opinions on this?

I take from it that Ridley decided NOT to imply that Jesus was an extraterrestrial, and I have no religous training or faith at all...Ridley clearly says it was "too on the nose"

Yes considered, then IMPLIED! LOL

Jett- I love you.

The Jesus Theory you're referring to is that Jesus was an Engineer/was sent by the Engineers?

It can go both ways. As someone else said, it is open to interpretation. It being a moronic idea doesn´t rule out that it could be true.

"The truth is out there" LOL

It's true! True!! TRUE!!! [b]TRUE!!!![/b] lol!

The Lone Gunwoman hit the nail on the head in her first post! It's up to the viewer to decide. Unlike Deckard being a replicant in the DC and FC. Nothing left up in the air there. He was a replicant lol.

Here we go again

I quite prefer it the other way around religiously speaking; that the heresy was not killing a Xristos figure, but rather that humanity pervasively, cross-culturally began to turn away from polytheism to monotheism. If the Engineers are to be interpreted as Annunaki/Igigi or Horus/Thoth/Isis [i]et al[/i] or the denizens of Asgard or the Greco-Roman Pantheon etc. roughly 2,000 years ago was when their mindshare and authority [u]really[/u] began slipping on Earth. Up to that point the concept of monotheism had been largely contained/constrained to single cultures.

LOL @Jett Agreed Engineering!

please please PRETTY PLEASE...not here not now....sigh...Deckard a replicant? Not again....ohhh...lets wait,,,wait..wait for the sequel board to get fired up...we got enough goin here,,,,,groan...

Hey, it's not up for debate...in the director's cut and final cut he's a replicant...end of story...Ridley directed the film...the film is Ridley's...he says he's a repplicant...he is...PERIOD. And for it to even be debated based on what's in those 2 cuts is ridiculous. Anyway...

..waitin for the sequel board...gonna find yourself reverse engineered..hahaha

And of course Ridley's going to say he "considered" it. He's not going to come right out and say that's where he's going to go in the sequels. I think he might. It would definitely be a way to make money. Christianity+controversy=$$$. He's done a very religious film before and I'm not going to sit here and say he wont go that way because he just may. Saying "I considered it" doesn't mean he decided not to go that way. You consider anything before you do it or not.

I think what's most interesting about this is what now seems, to me, to have become his habitual tone of self-congratulation and self-justification while talking in empty circles - here, he seems to explain that they dismissed it, while then immediately being unable to resist explaining in detail, why it was such a good idea - I think it's that bizarre combination of tone and meaning that is causing confusion. Furthermore, he explains that it was dismissed, not because the suggestion is plainly, slightly idiotic, for a great many reasons - but because it was, "too on the nose"? I wish he'd given any reason in the World but that one. What does that even mean? That it couldn't possibly be suggested, after all, because it was just too damn near to "the truth"? Presumably then, he's come to the conclusion, on our behalf, that we are just not ready for his genius to expose "the truth", or his alternate suggestion of truth, quite so clearly - so he's had to be more indirect? That would be because, I imagine, the weight of 2000 years of recorded human history - war, religion and all - would really be likely to tremble because of any single nonsense that Ridley Scott could come up with for his Sci-fi movie?...I think not. I'm starting to wonder if everything hasn't finally gone to his head and had exactly the effect you might predict.