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* CloneJesus: A religious fanatic and televangelist named Reverend Thomas Tilford has scientists extract DNA from the Main/ShroudOfTurin to order to recreate UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} and insert the embryo into Marie Wells' uterus. While still in the womb, the child begins to display strange powers.

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* CloneJesus: A religious fanatic and televangelist named Reverend Thomas Tilford has scientists extract DNA from the Main/ShroudOfTurin [[PublicDomainArtifact Shroud of Turin]] to order to recreate UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} and insert the embryo into Marie Wells' uterus. While still in the womb, the child begins to display strange powers.



* MindOverMatter: Marie Wells is impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} created using samples taken from the ShroudOfTurin. After studying the clone's DNA, Dr. Gail Cowlings compares it to that of a man who displayed telekinetic powers on a small scale. She theorizes that the original Jesus was a one in ten billion genetic aberration whose powers were seen as supernatural in ancient times, which led to him being considered the Son of Main/{{God}}. Reverend Thomas Tilford rejects the notion, proclaiming that it was and is nothing less than a miracle. While still in her womb, Marie's unborn son is able to move the toys in his nursery so that they surround his mother.

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* MindOverMatter: Marie Wells is impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} created using samples taken from the ShroudOfTurin.[[PublicDomainArtifact Shroud of Turin]]. After studying the clone's DNA, Dr. Gail Cowlings compares it to that of a man who displayed telekinetic powers on a small scale. She theorizes that the original Jesus was a one in ten billion genetic aberration whose powers were seen as supernatural in ancient times, which led to him being considered the Son of Main/{{God}}. Reverend Thomas Tilford rejects the notion, proclaiming that it was and is nothing less than a miracle. While still in her womb, Marie's unborn son is able to move the toys in his nursery so that they surround his mother.



* WholePlotReference: This episode is a sci-fi version of the Nativity of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} as it involved a woman named Marie Wells being impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of him who was created using DNA samples taken from the ShroudOfTurin. The episode [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this as Reverend Thomas Tilford, who orchestrated the clone's creation, compares Marie's husband Justin to Joseph. In turn, Justin asks what would that make Tilford with the implication being that he would be King Herod the Great, though this parallel is less exact than the others.

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* WholePlotReference: This episode is a sci-fi version of the Nativity of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} as it involved a woman named Marie Wells being impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of him who was created using DNA samples taken from the ShroudOfTurin.[[PublicDomainArtifact Shroud of Turin]]. The episode [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this as Reverend Thomas Tilford, who orchestrated the clone's creation, compares Marie's husband Justin to Joseph. In turn, Justin asks what would that make Tilford with the implication being that he would be King Herod the Great, though this parallel is less exact than the others.
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* WholePlotReference: This episode is a sci-fi version of the Nativity of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} as it involved a woman named Marie Wells being impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of him who was created using DNA samples taken from the ShroudOfTurin. The episode [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this as Reverend Thomas Tilford, who orchestrated the clone's creation, compares Marie's husband Justin to Joseph. In turn, Justin asks what would that make Tilford with the implication being that he would be King Herod the Great, though this parallel is less exact than the others.

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* WholePlotReference: This episode is a sci-fi version of the Nativity of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} as it involved a woman named Marie Wells being impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of him who was created using DNA samples taken from the ShroudOfTurin. The episode [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this as Reverend Thomas Tilford, who orchestrated the clone's creation, compares Marie's husband Justin to Joseph. In turn, Justin asks what would that make Tilford with the implication being that he would be King Herod the Great, though this parallel is less exact than the others.others.
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* GoodShepherd: In contrast to the very conservative, televangelist mega-church running Tilford, the catholic priest Marie confides is firmly this; helping to assure her of her own strength in character and adequacy as a mother.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' In Man's unending pursuit of salvation, the distractions of his science or his religion may be the very thing keeping him from his creator.

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-->'''The Control Voice:''' In Man's unending pursuit of salvation, the distractions of his science or his religion may be the very thing keeping him from his creator.creator.

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* CloneJesus: A religious fanatic and televangelist named Reverend Thomas Tilford has scientists extract DNA from the Main/ShroudOfTurin to order to recreate UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} and insert the embryo into Marie Wells' uterus. While still in the womb, the child begins to display strange powers.
* MindOverMatter: Marie Wells is impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} created using samples taken from the ShroudOfTurin. After studying the clone's DNA, Dr. Gail Cowlings compares it to that of a man who displayed telekinetic powers on a small scale. She theorizes that the original Jesus was a one in ten billion genetic aberration whose powers were seen as supernatural in ancient times, which led to him being considered the Son of Main/{{God}}. Reverend Thomas Tilford rejects the notion, proclaiming that it was and is nothing less than a miracle. While still in her womb, Marie's unborn son is able to move the toys in his nursery so that they surround his mother.
* SinisterMinister: Reverend Thomas Tilford had Marie Wells impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} without her knowledge. Her husband Justin was aware of the baby's true nature and went along with Tilford's plan but he gradually grew disillusioned with him. Justin comes to recognize that Tilford is not doing Main/{{God}}'s work but intends to use the baby for his own ends once he is born.
* WholePlotReference: This episode is a sci-fi version of the Nativity of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} as it involved a woman named Marie Wells being impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of him who was created using DNA samples taken from the ShroudOfTurin. The episode [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this as Reverend Thomas Tilford, who orchestrated the clone's creation, compares Marie's husband Justin to Joseph. In turn, Justin asks what would that make Tilford with the implication being that he would be King Herod the Great, though this parallel is less exact than the others.

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A woman is impregnated with a clone of Jesus Christ using DNA from the Shroud of Turin.

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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Man's empirical pursuit of science has often been at odds with his need for religious faith. But what happens when these two beliefs... collide?

A woman is impregnated with a clone of Jesus Christ using DNA from the Shroud of Turin.Turin.

-->'''The Control Voice:''' In Man's unending pursuit of salvation, the distractions of his science or his religion may be the very thing keeping him from his creator.
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