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Well, speaking of Goa'uld Jesus, they did have a Goa'uld Satan, which sort of implies the possibility of a Goa'uld Yahweh out there somewhere. After all, Egyptian mythology predates Jewish mythology, I'm pretty sure.
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"I want to se Stargate get really risky and have a war between Goa'uld Jesus and Goa'uld Mohammed."
The Hierarchy would not approve.
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So they can only demean aincent, currently out of favor beliefs with alien symbiote nonsense? Whata jip!
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A Go-auld Jehova's Witness traveling from planet to planet...
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: Well, speaking of Goa'uld Jesus, they did have a Goa'uld Satan, which sort of implies the possibility of a Goa'uld Yahweh out there somewhere. After all, Egyptian mythology predates Jewish mythology, I'm pretty sure.
Excecpt Solkar was from Egyptian mythology... Daniel says "the original Satan if you will" or words to that effect.
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You're not getting Tim's point. The concepts of Satan and Yahweh (the name of the Hebrew God, except they didn't write the vowels) existed in Egyptian mythology as Sokar (who was the god of, uh, Death and Decay�) and Amun (or Ra, I can never remember who created what) respectively long before they were "adopted" by the Semites, so, in the Stargate universe, there could be a Goa'uld wandering about who fathered a symbiote Yeshua.
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Well, the gods we deal with on Stargate are usually something like the gods whose personalities they assumed. For one to be like Yahweh, he'd have to have an intense love of mankind, and an intricate and detailed plan for their eventual salvation from their own mistakes that involved his son Yeshua dying for the good of humanity. Teal'c once pointed out that love and mercy are not general goa'ould traits. A goa'ould wouldn't've fed Israel in the desert for four decades, he would have led them out there and then abandoned them. So you could have a goa'ould that was like a Yahweh from a selective misreading of the Bible, but not one that was from a reading of the whole thing, which I'm sure is one reason why they never touched it.
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You really do ask for it sometimes, don't you?
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A *TV show* didn't touch the topic because it could be unrealistic. A TV show with people flying through gates, crustaceans lying in people's guts, and five people saving the world day after day....didn't touch the subject because it could be potentially unrealistic.
Right.
They didn't touch it because their aren't people ready to start boycotts, write letters, or burn effigies, simply because someone touched their beliefs in a less than respectful way.
I mean really, imagine the American public shitstorm that would arise if Stargate SG1 said that a parasite inspired the myths around God. It would make Mel Gibson's movie look like an episode of Sabrina.
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This goes against my better judgment, but:
"So you could have a goa'ould that was like a Yahweh from a selective misreading of the Bible, but not one that was from a reading of the whole thing..."
Oh, I don't know, you wouldn't have to misread that much of it at all, just discard the New Testament. B)
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The New Testament was written by the Asgard aliens to counter the obviously self-serving Goa-uld Old Testament. Jesus was a sexless little Gray Alien. Judas was a Ja'faa.
Makes more sense that the actual bible, at least.
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