Dr.Who VS. Jesus

Weird title right?

I'll get into it straight away.

Basically, watching Dr.Who tonight I heard Matt Smith deliver this line:

"900 years, never seen [a miracle] yet."

Is it wrong to presume that in his 900 years of life the Doctor never once wished to go back and see if what a third of the world that he holds so dear's beliefs come from? He could have done it instantly. In this episode for instance he decided to translate the first ever recorded words. Sigh.

http://bbc.co.uk/i/stv7m/?t=33m34s - That's a link to the BBC iPlayer site on which Dr.Who is located. It should start a few seconds before the line is said, and give it some context.

My personal hope is that it was an aethiest writer on Dr. Who having a little joke. Having Dr. Who say basically that he didn't believe in Jesus's divinity (because without a miracle but accepting Jesus did exist and turn water into wine (/any other miracle), there must be a natural explanation) would make me as an aethiest smile broadly. And only partly because it's having a dig at Christianity. Mainly in fact because it shows the writers amid all of the madness of Dr. Who and the likely censorship by the BBC of content that may perhaps be interpreted as offensive, have kept a cheeky joke in just for themselves.

That's a good thing. Which in turn makes me smile (leaving the "me as an aethiest" aspect of it to one side) just because writers these days have to go through quite the filter (and with all the aliens on Dr. Who I couldn't honestly believe it if one hadn't been called up by the BBC for being, let's say, insensitive). Maybe because it's having a go it makes me a bit happier than say, the average Christian at the joke. If it was a joke.

Just before writing this I did a quick google search for: "dr. who jesus". It presented me with many articles, forum posts etc. Here are some you might want to have a quick glance over:

"Just a thought and I do not want to want to become blaspehmous but :

we do know Time Lords meddle in other cultures pasts and presents and other worlds timelines.

We know that the Time Lord planet has no PRIME driective that they sensibly have in Star Trek.

We know that Dr Who can regenerate and be reborn again (like Jesus did)

We know that Dr Who always gets caught by yhr authorities on foreign planets when he is meddling in their affairs (Jesus was nabbed by Roman administors)

We know that future technology and medicines can seem like miracle cures to backwards civilisations (Giving someone a tablet so they can "RESSURECT themselves - Lazarus) MAYBE EVEN LAZARUS WAS ANOTHER TIME AGENT REgenreating????

We know that Dr Who preaches love and abidance more than war and justice (Jesus asked everyone to turn the other cheek instead of fighting back - this annoyed the Jewish folk who wanted the Romans out of their land...)

We know that primitive folks worship alien visitors - this has happened in at least 15 Dr Who stories.

We know that Dr Who has a real name that he refuses to name to people. Maybe in his first adventure after flofting rthe Tardis he used a false name Jesus Christ when on Earth in Biblical times? He has also used flase names in several other adventures - Magister, John Smith, Thorncroft etc

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All lin all....

Could Christinality be based on Dr Who.?"

- from http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=716183

A Telegraph article I won't quote from due to copyright infringement. Basically writes about how Church leaders are asking their clergy to appeal to the youth by referencing Dr. Who. - My basic point on this: if the teenagers aren't in the church listening to this sermon, they're not hearing the Dr. Who reference. Therefore having no effect but to piss off the others in there. Surely?

- from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1925338/The-church-is-ailing-send-for-Dr-Who.html

But my favourite by far was this, 4th down on the search:

"Dr Jesus"

I'll let you click the link:

http://www.schizophrenia-info.info/dr_jesus.htm

From what I gathered a Christian site claiming to be able to cure schizophrenia through Christianity.

So maybe the line was a reaction from the writers to such articles/posts as this? Just a quick nod to all of the religious connotations Dr. Who apparently brings out in people.

My honest theory?

It was just a line in the episode. Just unintentionally funny to me.