I tried to search for this question but all the words are too little. I vaguely remember a thread about this not that long ago. . .
Anyway, being a gleefully mean and evil family, we say this to each other a lot. Especially while gaming (the family that games together, gets their buttflesh fused to the couch cushions together) and we began to wonder. Well, actually, my son began to wonder: where’d this come from?
Does anybody know the first sighting of this saying in movies and/or books?
Ten Commandments, I think
Edward G Robinson said it
I have some very vague recollections of seeing it for the first time on a Chick tract…
In the 10 commancments Eward G Robinsons (i forget his character) says “Where’s your messiah now!” in his typical voice.
Later parodied on the Simpsons when Chief Wiggum (and his Edward G Robinson voice) says that same to Ned Flanders as he arrests him.
And then Bogart shoots him, right?
I recall the Mole saying this in the South Park movie, but I doubt that’s the original.
Superman II, possibly?
“Where’s your messiah now, godboy?”
It’s that little addition that makes it hysterical, for me.
I think **BurnMeup ** and labtrash have hit the nail on the head. I am 99% sure that this where it came from … but I also think it is a misremebered line.
According to Hal Erickson and some other googling the line Dathan (Edward G.) actually delivers to the dancing/golden calf worshiping Israelites is:
“Where’s your Moses now?”
Robinson is of course the answer, but there’s also this Oompah-Loompah like ditty from the Beer Factory episode of family guy (sung to the guy in the wheelchair):
*What do you think when you’re stuck in a chair/
Finding it hard to go up and down stairs/
What do you think of the one you call God/
Isn’t his absence slight-ly odd?/
(Maybe he’s forgotten you). *
I think the “Where’s your Messiah now?” line comes from the stand-up of Billy Crystal, who was joking about miscast roles and using Robinson as an example. This was how Crystal said the line.
This phrase also seems to have attached itself to the Burger King. There are several versions of a picture featuring the Burger King leering at someone; the bottom of the picture always bears the phrase “Where is your God now?”
Heh 
I know.
From Psalm 42:
I do think I’ve come across the phrase in pop culture somewhere, but I can’t recall where.
I’ve seen variations on this, but I can’t remember where it comes from.
“Where’s your User now, little Program ?” - MCP
No, no, I remember Tron; that’s why I attributed it to the MCP. I just don’t remember where I heard the “God” version.
D’oh! I must be having problems with my browser. Somehow, I thought your suig line was part of your post.
You know, Der Trihs, I just realized what your handle actually means, and that it probably isn’t Dutch, like I’d assumed. :smack:
What did you think it meant in Dutch? I seem to recall his saying it was an anagram of “Red Shirt”.
It’s Red Shirt backwards, the name of a character from the webcomic Schlock Mercenary. I’m also a Star Trek fan, so it seemed doubly appropriate.