Vanvittig Verdenshistorie

#250: Den Mekaniske Messias!


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STEAMPUNK JESUS IS HERE! 🤖

Mange religioner venter på, at Messias en dag vil vende tilbage i kød og blod. Men hvad nu, hvis han slet ikke var menneske - og i stedet var bygget af tandhjul, tuber og kobberledninger?

Præsten John Murray Spears troede på lidt af hvert. Udover sin kristne tro mente han nemlig også, at han havde fået telepatisk kontakt til en forening af afdøde opfindere og filosoffer, som havde en særlig opgave til ham.

De befalede ham nemlig at bygge en ny Messias. I form af en form for gudemaskine, der brød med fysikkens love og var powered af både tro, håb og sex magic...
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Kilder:

  • Spear, John Murray: "Of the Electric Motor"
    https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735066224365/viewer#page/22/mode/2up
  • "Spear, John Murray" i "Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography"
    https://www.uudb.org/spear-john-murray/
  • Sheldon, Thaddeus S. og Spear, John Murray: "Thaddeus Sheldon Papers on Harmonia 1853-1868", ULS Archives & Special Collections (overview af breve mellem John og hans ven Thaddeus Sheldon)
    https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-PPiU-dar196001/viewer
  • Davis, Andrew Jackson: "The Principles Nature, Her Revelations and A Voice to Mankind, 1847:
    https://books.google.dk/books?id=6HcRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9&hl=da&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • Interviews i forskellige dagblade:
    • Spiritual Telegraph, 10. Juni 1854 (gennem International Association For The Preservation of Spiritualist and Occultist Periodicals):
      https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/spiritual\_telegraph/spiritual\_telegraph\_v3\_n6\_jun\_10\_1854.pdf
    • Religion Philosphical Journal, Maj 1874 (gennem International Association For The Preservation of Spiritualist and Occultist Periodicals):
      https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/religio-philosophical\_journal/rpj\_may\_1874.pdf
    • New Era, 3. Maj 1854:
      https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/new_era/new_era_v2_n27_may_3_1854.pdf
  • Buescher, John: "Revisiting John Murray Spear", International Association For The Preservation of Spiritualist and Occultist, 2021
    https://iapsop.com/jbb/2021__buescher___revisiting_john_murray_spear.pdf
  • Pilkington, Mark: "Metal Messiah", Guardian, 2005:
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/03/farout
  • Martin, Andrew: "John Murray Spear, the Famous 19th Century Inventor Who Tried to Build a Robot God", Medium, 2025:
    https://historianandrew.medium.com/john-murray-spear-the-famous-19th-century-inventor-who-tried-to-build-a-robot-god-2058f5bb31b5
  • Damon Schenk, Robert: "The Building of the God Machine", Biblioteca Pleyades
    https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/cienciareal/cienciareal41.htm
  • Lenoir, Andrew: "When 19th-Century Spiritualists Believed a "God Machine" Would Save Humanity", Mental Floss, 2019:
    https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/571569/spiritualist-god-machine
  • Baines, Dan: "John Murray Spear' Mechanical Messiah Discovered In Coloradio Attic", 2020.
    https://www.danbaines.com/blog/john-murray-spears-mechanical-messiah-discovered-in-colorado-attic/3/7/2019

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