MAGA want to believe that a man born in Israel would have Scandinavian features, blonde hair and blue eyes.
Yes, Jesus was likely brown-skinned, brown-eyed, and had dark hair. Judah Tribe
I suppose nothing as art goes, but I’m more of a purist. This is supposedly a historical man. I have no skin in the game as an atheist. Maybe it’ll be an interesting gimmick, but who knows, Hamilton switched race with great effect but I think that worked better conceptually. Eyes of the beholder.
We all are supposedly in that image, so I guess we are all women and men? I’m an atheist, but I don’t believe that’s what “in his image” means. Jesus was a male everywhere depicted until now.
Jesus wasn't real. There's no credible evidence of his existence outside of holy texts. He was a character created for parables by Saul of Tarsus in an attempt to soften Abrahamic Jehovah worship.
He would've been Middle Eastern, though, if he weren't as fictional as Robin Hood and Queen Mab.
The bible makes it clear that Jesus was not white. Gender is not really addressed. If 'christians' had actually read the damned book they would know this.
Couple thoughts:
Dear God, I hope they record and stream this.
Who's going to play Mary magdalene? Are they going to change pronouns in her big number? "I don't know how to love her"?
What's the change in optics on the whipping scene?
Do we get a white judas, and how does that change how it hits?
MAGA Congress wouldn’t recognize Jesus if he arose from the Bible when they took the oath to uphold the Constitution. MAGA is Old Testament. An eye for an eye.
I personally am tired of the humanity hating Maga Christians . Not the "love thy neighbor
" Guys, but the "hate thy neighbor if you don't look like me and act the way I tell you" Guys. Stay strong. Ply your craft. Break a leg
Well Jesus was blonde, blue eyes and white as snow right? I mean you can’t be Jewish and come out of a desert with no sunscreen and maintain that level of whiteness. Lol people are crazy.
Push their buttons! But it is just fine with them that a blue eyed, white guy can portray Jesus who was from the Middle East and Jewish. Almost all of the pics that they use to portray Jesus use the white guy approach, too! 😂😂
Yeah I am totally with you on this one. The description of the character is well known. Write a new story, new characters if you want to change things so much.
I'm okay with them making Snow White Latina as long as they are okay with making John Henry a pale ginger Irishman or Robin Hood an Australian aboriginal.
Other than to push the arts to make more political stands, of the 1000s of actors, why her? Is it because Hollywood is making $ of her current attention of fame? At what point do we just say enough is enough?
Maybe she was cast "solely on the basis of their abilities and achievements and not on the basis of their social, cultural, or economic background or irrelevant personal characteristics."
Why did you automatically assume anything OTHER than meritocracy?
The hive mind, MAGAtBrain, is a reflection of the subhuman monster addicted to cruelty that it worships. It mindlessly projectile regurgitates the hate it is perpetually fed from The Orange Slug’s soiled diaper like agri-manure spreaders with less onboard intelligence.
#NQNQ247
Only my very favorite Broadway musical of all time! We had the original Broadway album as a teenager and I wore it out! Come on down, Cynthia!
I know all the words and will sing along with you GLADLY!
AB FAB!
Well, shit.
Because I am positive that MAGA christians were a huge chunk of the Broadway theater/musical audience. Are they now going to get together to blow up and shoot their copies of the cast albums from Cabaret and Hair?
I might not believe Jesus of Nazareth was the son of god but he definitely was a real person. Multiple documents and sources from the time period make mention of him
From a probabilistic view: someone got a hold of earlier religious texts, parsed out the helpful bits, and said those. A few people liked it. Dude may have even been named Jesus. Then the Roman Empire got a hold of it and put a bunch of extra words in his mouth. Then King James, then Muscle Jesus.
There’s no archaeological evidence that Jesus existed. And the historical accounts that mention him were written decades after he would have died. It’s entirely possible they’re a collection of stories attributed to one man - we’ve seen how quickly lies can spread even when the truth is available…
And it depends on who wrote down the stories. Tons of that stuff came straight out of earlier Roman, Greek, and Egyptian religions. Christianity has always been good about stealing other people's stuff.
There are literally no contemporary accounts from eye witnesses during his alleged lifetime. And the Romans kept very good records.
No accounts of any of the events surrounding his life either. No record of a great census, for instance.
He isn't once mentioned for decades after his alleged death.
How is this blasphemy? If a white, blond guy can play JC, why not a black woman? Both have similarities to the real guy but neither looks exactly like him.
I LOVE IT! Do they honestly think 1. Jesus was a real person and 2. If he was real do they think he was a WHITE MAN WITH BLUE EYES LIVING IN THE MIDDLE EAST!? lol. MAGAts are dumb.
If you've read the Bible.... I think you'd see you're wrong.... The Bible is a horrific set of rules that allows for slavery and much more horrific stuff. Don't respond to me until you've brought me at least 100 foreskins, and sacrificed your eldest child to show your loyalty to me.
It's literally Trump level cruelty. People need to quit with this absolute bullshit belief where Christians are morally perfect people. They're not, they never have been.
Dear George, these are not Christians. If you wanna know a Christian, I'm a Christian and I know one when I see one and these guys aren't. They all have X on their forehead.
White "Christians" have portrayed Jesus as a blue-eyed, blonde haired, white man for centuries, which is blasphemous to his brown eye, brown skinned, Middle Eastern origins. A brown skinned female actress doing a job for 3 days...is not.
I’m a christian & I LOVE that she’s playing the part! Men played women in Shakespeare plays, Sigourney Weaver is playing Prospero! Jesus was surrounded by women engaged in His ministry. ???? Good for her!
I was around back when Superstar was first produced and I clearly remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the conservative christians over a "dope-smoking hippie playing JC".
Christians in MAGA?
There are White nationalists
There are Christian nationalists
There are believers in Bronze Age Hebrew texts.
There are scared White Folk afraid that they will be treated like the whites treated minorities.
But there are probably no actual Christians in MAGA.
Help understand the outrage… are they upset Mia Farrow played Peter Pan? Is a woman thing or a black thing? Either way shows they are just asses. FYI…. I love this actress, she is amazing.
So true. Hillel plagerized Comfucius 20 years prior "do not fo to others what is hateful to you is the whole of the law, the rest is comme tary, go study"
The ONE novel religious idea Jesus had was church and state separation. A big one, but goes un noticed
Lol! I think archeologists and paleontologists have pretty much confirmed that a blonde blue-eyed Jesus never really existed. That’s probably a more accurate description than anything.
Well, the Redeemer wasn't a white guy, as so many evangelicals believe. This is a pretty neat way to retell a familiar story in a way that just might open some evangelical eyes, if they weren't so busy covering their ears.
There's still people getting shocked and offended by The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show so I don't think they could cope with a rock opera about Jesus much either.
I have to disagree here. Jesus has, over the generations, been pictured as a beach bum stoner by both Dems and those people with red caps. Check the picture and tell me if I am wrong.
Where did Jesus come from? White people love to literally white wash historical people.
Other examples of actual historical people that have been turned white: Alexandre Dumas, St. Augustine of Hippo, Saint Nicholas, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Queen Charlotte, Saint George & Alessandro de Medici
As an Atheist, I have to say based on the location he was born and where he lived, there ain’t no way he would be pasty white like that. His whitewashed depictions make me agree with the stoner part but less so beach bum and more so basement nerd variety
I've seen women play Hamlet, Willy Wonka, Oberon, the Doctor (twice, actually) and the Master, a Star Fleet commander, numerous comic operas&plays with gender-swap written into the libretto… so why not Jesus?
…I think my fav swap was a RSC prod. of Midsummer Night's Dream, both Oberon and Titania gender-switched. It got edgy (good edgy!) partic with some of the love-potion induced affairs w/other chars.
Seems kinda silly to me and I'm not a snowflake. Surely she can do the job (it is a job) but there are plenty of live Jewish men who could play the part. One has to feel there is something effective in a Navajo playing a Navajo, right?
Do they understand it’s Art? Do they not think Jesus would say, hey, if this lets people look at me in a different light that they can relate to, I’m all for it? 🤦🏻♀️
It's true. I put off watching it for years because I was told it was blasphemous. When I finally saw it, I absolutely loved it. My friend gave me a copy of the soundtrack on cassette & I played it so much the tape broke.
Lol it's so easy to get under their dumbass thin skin. They're just a bunch of petty, weak, gullible sheep. They deserve every bad thing that happens to them and I am so here for it.
These are probably the same idiots who have
1. Refused to see it
2. Called the original "blaspheme"
3. Would complain about anything being produced thats not racist or sexist
4. Hate anyone/thing different
5. claim that Jesus hates (anything at all)
...
I could keep going but I think you get it
My (all girls) high school did Jesus Christ Superstar with an all female cast and Jesus as a female (1998). We got hate mail. I’m so proud of our drama director. And I can’t wait to see this version. She’s an amazing actress.
My co-ed Catholic high school *tried* to cast a female student as Jesus about the same year, and the backlash from parents and administrators was so overwhelming that they finally caved and cast her as Pilate instead.
Having been raised in Catholic school myself until 8th grade this doesn’t surprise me. My high school was all girls and we had chapel, but we had all religions (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, pagan, non-religious preferences, etc.) so we got away with it.
Good! This is amazing and she's a talented actress. This is just as bad as when they get pissed over a cartoon character going black in the live action. They take themselves too damn serious - it's hard for me not to laugh at their stupidity lol. Brings me joy in these dark days 😆
I wonder what colour the skin of a middle-eastern man would be, like the one the utterly revere and misrepresent in their depictions of him, but then, stories about him were written hundreds of years after they took place, so, y'know, could have been a woman for all they know!
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Slave mentality.
Yes, Jesus was likely brown-skinned, brown-eyed, and had dark hair. Judah Tribe
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Casting a woman as Jesus is kinda bullshit
Doesn't stop it being kinda bullshit
Get a fucking life
In all literature about it, fanfic or not, it's the Son of God.
Cope harder, my reaction is legitimate 🖕
Of course a cult where men are in power & women are slaves will depict Jesus a man. Doesn't mean they are right
He would've been Middle Eastern, though, if he weren't as fictional as Robin Hood and Queen Mab.
But I'll be waiting with a bucket of popcorn for Cynthia! 🍿
Dear God, I hope they record and stream this.
Who's going to play Mary magdalene? Are they going to change pronouns in her big number? "I don't know how to love her"?
What's the change in optics on the whipping scene?
Do we get a white judas, and how does that change how it hits?
" Guys, but the "hate thy neighbor if you don't look like me and act the way I tell you" Guys. Stay strong. Ply your craft. Break a leg
Lou Stules.
I'm reminded of when Mark Hamill was asked "how did *you* get *that* part???" His answer: "I auditioned."
It's sometimes a simple as that.
Why did you automatically assume anything OTHER than meritocracy?
Take your time. This might sting a little.
#NQNQ247
I know all the words and will sing along with you GLADLY!
AB FAB!
Right in the goat ass.
I have my credit card in my hand.
Go on, explain how she's gross.
Because I am positive that MAGA christians were a huge chunk of the Broadway theater/musical audience. Are they now going to get together to blow up and shoot their copies of the cast albums from Cabaret and Hair?
No accounts of any of the events surrounding his life either. No record of a great census, for instance.
He isn't once mentioned for decades after his alleged death.
There's also a bunch of them alive today, I think one used to play for Arsenal.
Forget the whole son of god thing. There are historical records written by the Romans of Jesus living at the time
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus#CITEREFDark2023
Yes
That a MERMAID was black...
"I dont care about the opinion of someone who would have cheered on the crucifixion."
With Jesus's
Long hair
Long dress
Long beard
... the obvious casting should be Conchita Wurst
doing JSS too-
PONTIUS PILATE IS A WOMAN IN WHITE SUIT!!
2 OLD magas WALKED OUT!
"NO THANK YOU" overheard
Not like these people can appreciate musicals.
There are White nationalists
There are Christian nationalists
There are believers in Bronze Age Hebrew texts.
There are scared White Folk afraid that they will be treated like the whites treated minorities.
But there are probably no actual Christians in MAGA.
“Hateful divisive call for ‘compassion’”
Jesus would say: “smite them and their families Father, they know exactly what they do.”
The ONE novel religious idea Jesus had was church and state separation. A big one, but goes un noticed
Other examples of actual historical people that have been turned white: Alexandre Dumas, St. Augustine of Hippo, Saint Nicholas, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Queen Charlotte, Saint George & Alessandro de Medici
Hey that whole water to wine thing, instead, could you help out on PowerBall numbers instead?
1. Refused to see it
2. Called the original "blaspheme"
3. Would complain about anything being produced thats not racist or sexist
4. Hate anyone/thing different
5. claim that Jesus hates (anything at all)
...
I could keep going but I think you get it
Israel, 2000 years ago? Jesus was dark-skinned. Period.
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-evolving-pigment-palette-european-skin.html