{"id":9428,"date":"2012-09-15T06:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T10:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2012-09-15T06:49:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T10:49:36","slug":"jesus-and-spock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/09\/jesus-and-spock.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and Spock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Eruesso shared<\/a> this tattoo of Spock depicted in imagery typically associated with Jesus:<\/p>\n

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He said he\u2019ll leave it to me to decipher it<\/a> (presumably not the text, which is \u201cLive Long and Prosper\u201d in Spanish, but the significance of the whole thing). If he expects me to explain why someone would etch this permanently onto their leg, then I can\u2019t help. But there is certainly much that one could say about the role of Spock in relation to religion and Star Trek fandom. Spock is at once the most logical and the most consistently and explicitly religious figure<\/a> on board the original Enterprise. He practices a Vulcan way of life<\/a> which includes things that look like meditation and ritual, and is shown doing so even more frequently than Uhura works in references to Christianity.<\/p>\n

There are quite a few other interesting images that bring Jesus and Spock together<\/a> online. Here are just a couple of examples:<\/p>\n

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There is also a bizarre video<\/a> in which Jesus and Spock have a conversation on the bridge of the Enterprise, in which Jesus turns out to have learned everything that he knows about the history of Christianity from reading\u00a0The Da Vinci Code<\/em>\u2026except, apparently, what he learned from the Jesus mythicists:<\/p>\n