Physicist William Winters asks the church for money to build a time machine to take him and the Reverend Billy back to the time of Jesus.
“I’m talking time travel,” William went on. “You could go back in time and meet Jesus. Assuming he existed.”

Variants

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  1. “Salvation” by Jerry Oltion, in Analog, December 2007.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Jerry Oltion