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This week on Unapologetic, we're going to play a rousing game of trivia called "Can You Name That Thing." We'll have categories for deity, ship, and president. 

Okay, let's get started. Our first category is the category of deity. Here's how this game is going to work. I'm going to read a description of a thing to you, in this case, a deity, a god. Your job is to figure out who I'm talking about. Let's get started. This deity was conceived by a virgin. He was said to be born in a cave. His birth was announced by an angel. He attended a special rite of passage at the age of twelve. The texts describing his life are silent from about age twelve to age thirty. At thirty years of age he was baptized in a river. His baptizer was later beheaded. He had twelve disciples, preformed miracles, exorcised demons, raised someone from the dead and even walked on water. Can you name that deity? Hold onto your answer because we're going to the next category.

This object is a ship. Can you name this ship? It was the largest ship of its time. It was considered to be unsinkable. It had enough lifeboats for less than half the people on board. It struck an iceburg while traveling at over twenty-two and a half knots. It sank and more than half of the passengers died. Lastly, its name starts with “tita…” Can you name that ship? 

Our last category is the category of president. This president became president in '60. He had a lazy eye. He was related to US Senators, US At tourney Generals who graduated from Harvard, and an ambassador to the court of Saint James. He was advised not to go to the place where he died. He was shot in the head from behind. The assassin escaped and was killed before going to trial. He was detained after shooting by a policeman named Baker. He was eventually killed by a Colt revolver. Can you name that president? 

Okay, so let's see how you have done on our little game show today. I promise there's a point. This isn't just somewhat annoying fun. 

Can you name that president? Well, you might have said Abraham Lincoln or you might have said John F. Kennedy. Either would be right, because the details I gave actually describe both, even down to the detail of the brand of revolver that killed the assassin and even down to the name of the policeman who detained the suspect. There are two possible answers that work. Now, you might think that's an incredibly specific set of details, and yet it matched two people. Yes it did. 

Let's go on to our first category. Can you name that deity? Well, I actually was describing the Egyptian god Horus. You might be thinking, what? “Horus? No, that was pretty much Jesus, right? December 25th, angels, mother named Mary, all that stuff?” No I was describing Horus, or at least what some people would say about Horus. (That point is key.) We'll come back to Horus and Jesus in a minute. 

Now, can you name that ship? This one just seems like it should be so straightforward. It's not the Titanic. It's actually a ship called the Titan, in spite of all those details. The Titan was written about in a 1889 novella, or short novel, written my Morgan Robertson called Futility, or, it had another title called The Wreck of the Titan. Now, here's the interesting point. This novella was written before the Titanic was even made and before it went on to sink in 1912. We have someone writing about a ship that is so incredibly similar to the Titanic, even in it's name (Titan and Titanic) that sinks in a similar way and similar circumstances and similar events ensue after it sinks. Yet, this was all written about before the Titanic was even made. Here's the thing I want to point out to you today. Here's the main point of today's episode: There are some people who will say that Jesus is just a recycled version o…