According to Time Magazine, Jesus is back and she’s a Chinese woman named “Lightning.”

A fast-spreading sect named Lightning from the East is alarming Christian communities across China by winning large numbers of converts to its unorthodox tenets, often by abducting potential believers. Its followers, who say they number 300,000 but whom observers measure in the tens of thousands, believe that Jesus has returned as a plain-looking, 30-year-old Chinese woman who lives in hiding and has never been photographed. They credit her with composing a third testament to the Bible, writing enough hymns to fill 10 CDs and teaching that Christians who join her will ascend to heaven in the coming apocalypse. They see signs of doom everywhere, from the perfidy of Communist Party propaganda to anthrax spores in the U.S. postal system. According to one of the group’s Chinese leaders who uses the alias “Peter” and moved to New York City last year, “The judgment is ongoing in China and will expand through the world.”

Old article, and I may have posted about it before, but the thought just popped into my mind, so here it is again, floating in my datastream.

See also “Eastern Lightning” on Chinese search engine Baidu. {More about Baidu’s association with the Chinese government, and an analysis of parallel searches on Google and Baidu to look at slanted and hidden information delivered via search algorithms}