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Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:23 pm**

Gaius Baltar is Joseph Smith?

There has been a lot of uninformed commentary on the internet comparing Gaius Baltar to Jesus Christ. The people making this comparison obviously have no clue. Gaius does not represent Jesus, he represents Joseph Smith.

Jesus was the Son of God. Gaius, like Joseph Smith, is just a regular person and not divine himself. Joseph Smith was visited by the angel Moroni on numerous occasions (or so he claimed). Gaius is visited regularly by some supernatural entity that reveals itself as a Cylon model Number Six. Or maybe Gaius is just insane, but the Number Six in Gaius’ head is supposed to represent the angel Moroni who visited Joseph Smith. Just as Joseph Smith received religious instructions from Moroni, Gaius receives religious instruction from Number Six.

Joseph Smith and Gaius were both politicians. Joseph Smith was the mayor of the town of Nauvoo, and he announced his candidacy for president of the United States in 1844. Gaius Baltar ran for president of the colonies (and won too). See the similarities?

Unlike Jesus, who was convicted at a trial and sentenced to death, both Joseph Smith and Baltar managed to evade any serious jail time at their trials. Joseph Smith was killed by a mob, and not by the law. It seems to me that the writers of BSG are also setting up Gaius Baltar to be killed by a mob. Every time he's out in public, the mob wants to kill him.

Of course, the biggest similarity between the prophet Joseph Smith and Gaius Baltar is the polygamy! Joseph Smith had two dozen or more wives. Gaius has a harem of female followers. Jesus never had any wife at all.

Thus we see that Gaius is Joseph Smith and not Jesus

http://www.galacticablog.com/2008/04/gaius-is-joseph-smith-not-jesus.html

http://io9.com/384538/could-gaius-baltar-be----a-mormon

http://www.majordojo.com/2008/04/who-baltar-might-really-be.php

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:31 pm**

Who is Gaius?

Edited to add: I'm guessing since the google ads came up with a Battlestar Galactica ad, it must be from that?

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:33 pm**

Hmmmm, interesting, particularly given the Mormon connection to BG. I love it when they say "by the gods of kolob"!! LOL

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:34 am**

Smith did not have a beard

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:59 am**

moksha wrote:Gaius Baltar is Joseph Smith?

I find Gaius far too sympathetic to go there.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:18 am**

To follow the analogy, this would make #6 either the voice
of God or the Holy Spirit.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:34 am**

To follow the analogy, this would make #6 either the voice
of God or the Holy Spirit.

Not that there's anything wrong with that....

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:35 am**

I find Gaius far too sympathetic to go there.

I agree. Gaius is too genuinely conflicted and searching for it to be a good fit.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:41 pm**

beastie wrote:Hmmmm, interesting, particularly given the Mormon connection to BG. I love it when they say "by the gods of kolob"!! LOL

I think it is the Lords of Kobal.

Glenn Larson the writer and producer of the original BSG was LDS though I am not sure he was active. But if you watch the 70's series there are all sorts of LDS stuff-eternal marriage, council of 12 (still in the new one), Lost tribes, Original planet humans came from was Kobal like Kolob, an encounter with a Satan type being along with an encounter with a God like race that says as you are we once were, as we are you can become and so on.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:58 pm**

moksha wrote:To follow the analogy, this would make #6 either the voice
of God or the Holy Spirit.

Or maybe Hagia Sophia, or the Shekinah.

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