Jesus Worshipped on Other Planets?

Posted on December 8, 2008
Filed Under Humor, Religion | 7 Comments

OK this was too funny not to pass along. I saw it over at Brandon’s but he says it’s been making the rounds for a while.

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Maybe it just shows how much a LDS-History geek I am but I immediately thought of D&C 88:51-61 and Orson Pratt’s “interesting” reading of it in JD 17:331-2. (Yeah, Pratt had some wacky ideas about the universe)

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7 Responses to “Jesus Worshipped on Other Planets?”

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That’s very funny. Gives a new meaning to the Christmas/Easter celebrations, eh?

No wonder we are just barely getting outside our own solar system….

3 Last Lemming on December 8th, 2008 12:26 pm

I don’t know if there is a connection, but this relates directly to Time Magazine’s 10th most important religion story of the year. No joke.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1855958_1855956,00.html

(You might be interested in the #2 story as well.)

While Orson did have some crazy ideas, I fail to see what is so objectionable about Jesus being worshiped on other planets. Other solutions are only more complicated.

I was more referring to Pratt’s talk as a whole. “The Lord wanted to represent these kingdoms so that we could understand what he desired to impart, and he gave it as a parable, in order to assist our weak comprehensions to understand some thing about Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and others of the various worlds that he has formed.” Yeah, wacky. The sort of thing you’d expect from Edgar Rice Burroughs although it’s a bit unfair to read back our knowledge into rural 19th century America.

I once tried to write a mini Mormon sci-fi novel based on this here

There actually is a new novel out based on the idea of Jesus on another planet. It’s not from a Mormon point of view; just “Christian.” It is a very good book and deals with the concept in a very creative way (by seeing how both the people on the other planet see Jesus and also how humans who know of ‘our’ Jesus respond. It’s called “The Eternal Messiah: Jesus of K’Turia”.

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