A new Messiah?

Let's say last week someone said they were the new messiah, following on from Jesus (and Muhammad). How would they be recived in this day and age? Would the church support him/her or call them mad and usurper of the truth?
Miracles live on tv or just on Youtube?
How long would it take this person to be called the real new messiah, having alot of followers, and not just a head of a cult.
 
Let's say last week someone said they were the new messiah, following on from Jesus (and Muhammad). How would they be recived in this day and age? Would the church support him/her or call them mad and usurper of the truth?
Miracles live on tv or just on Youtube?
How long would it take this person to be called the real new messiah, having alot of followers, and not just a head of a cult.

Short answer, they're crazy.

Long answer, it's not going to happen. They're never going to be acknowledged as the new Messiah. Our world is no longer a world for religious reworking. Hell, even saint-hood is getting harder in the Catholic Church as increased public knowledge of randoms pieces of backstory gets out, and ruins the "holier than thou" attitude of the proposed saints with actual humanity.

It's now too much a world of social media for even a moderately successful "Messiah" to achieve mainstream credibility.

And well, if it was the real Messiah, that's really too ASB for After 1900.
 
Mossad kidnaps him and asks some very awkward questions about the Holocaust.:mad:

Governments all over the world correctly hear 'higher power' as 'foreign power' and react accordingly.

Athiests and scientists show a high level of interest in studying and replicating and 'magical' abilities he has.
 
Icke may have done better if he had played for a bigger team and not Coventry City. And of course not compleatly mad, but who knows what could be thought of him in 100 years?
 
No time for Messiahs

The 21st century is no longer a time for "Messiahs" or men on white horses or saviors or Leader types offering "ALl the answers.

Those days ended with the last fellow that claimed to bethe self styled "Leader of all mankind." (You may remember him short fellow, funny mustache, kind of twitchy.)

Now we demand facts and proof and documentation and verifiable repeatable emricle results.

We neither need, nor want Messiahs.
 
If someone was to claim that in the Middle East they'd find themselves having to prove they can rise from the grave. Someone is going to kill them, the only question is what religion the assasin claims to be acting for.
 
Big in Hollywood

I can see a lot of big Hollywood names handing him money. Makes more sense than that alien crap they give their money to...
 
Miracles

I think our heretic Sargent meant the real deal, a miracle performing good word spreading superhuman. I think in todays world a miracle performer would be seen as a super hero rather than a messiah. That's a common starting point for graphic novels, and Warren Ellis and the mighty Alam Moore have done it to death. Think of Dr Manhatam in watchmen as a modern day "real deal" messiah. It wouldn't look good for us humans...
 
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