Montana Smith
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Rocket Surgeon said:Oi, trickster...what THE hell are you on about?
A temple of Christ protecting a Grail that cannot in any case be removed, by means of deadly traps and fatal false grails. Hardly the ideal of Christ-like love and forgiveness, but very much in line with the vindictive Aliens of KOTCS. Likewise the murderous Ark in Raiders.
goodeknight said:Yeah, it makes much more sense to know that aliens came down, tricked people by playing a humble carpenter, got them to think He was God's son, and then used their awesome alien-brain-technology to imbue a "cup of a carpenter" with what would appear to be supernatural healing powers. If Henry Sr. broke it in half and looked at the cross section, he would have found real illumination. He would have seen it was an intricate machine, perhaps alien manufactured nanobots that do instant surgery on wounds, that healed him, not faith, or the power of God.
All religions with a common source, misinterpreted in millions of ways by the superstitious humans inhabiting Indy's world.
It covers all gods and their fairytale religions, not just Christian, Hebrew, Hindu etc, but of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and so on. It also permits phenomena perceived as magic/supernatural.
Aliens make for more interesting and believable fictional bullsh!t than, for example, the Bible bullsh!t that gets passed off as truth, and over which wars are endlessly fought.