I did a marathon run of Borgia while working into the wee, wee hours. A couple nights in a row.
And then the work was over and I was still mid-story and it was 2am which leads to very odd little discussions in my head. Since...nobody wants to discuss these things with me at 2am.
Well, nobody wants to discuss these things with me at 2pm, either. Hmph.
Anyway. It went like this.
I wonder what would happen if someone found the Spear of Destiny and...upon returning it to the Vatican it was discovered that there was a bit of dried blood caught in a groove? Rehydrated, there was just enough (shut up, M., this is my DAYDREAM, you're not allowed to rain science on my fun religious megalomaniacal nonsense!) blood to produce a clone.
So we're a fly on the wall in the Vatican...see, they cloned Jesus, fed him nothing but scripture and the ways of the world as Jesus would see it...only now, he's been let out supposedly to spread the word and bring the sheep back to the slaughter...errr..fold...
and instead he's in Sao Paulo Brazil preaching birth control, self-reliance, organic roof gardening and rendering what is Ceasar unto Ceasar...which includes the bullshit the catholic church has served up to its people for the last 2,000 years, keeping people impoverished, subjugated and ignorant.
Anyway, as the fly we're overhearing two priests saying it's time to come out and denounce the prophet as a false prophet, or..re-prophet...by suggesting there wasn't enough blood to make a proper clone and hinting that the blood used for the procedure was actually the Pope's ... which would be FUNNY, would it not, because the Pope IS supposed to be God's voice on earth...so...
And that went on for about half an hour, listening in on the plotting and the conniving and the counter-plotting...
Until I heard this little voice in my head say, "What would a modern day Jesus concert LOOK like?"
Hmmm...Yes. Probably not the sitting around the feet making miracle fish and wine, would it? No, these days there would be security guards and track lighting and stage makeup and backup singers. Would he use the Popemobile?
And by this time, it's coming around to 4am. That's the only possible explanation for the next thought...
'cause you know how people are always GRABBING at celebrities? They want to touch them, steal a little piece of them...why...just the other day someone paid some ungodly 5-figure sum ... for one of lady Gaga's fake fingernails...
So where does this inevitably lead?
"Why settle for ordinary children when you could have your very own Jesus clone? Hurry, our phone lines are filling up! Special this evening, not 6, not 5, but no FOUR easy payments of $29.95 and YOU, TOO can be the mother of the son of the son of man. Call now, and we'll give you not one, but TWO Jesus clones for the price of one..."