Re: Bill Murray joins "Garfield" movie

Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 00:16:24 -0400
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"David" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 May 2003 23:39:52 +0000 (UTC), email-address-deleted
> (J.D. Baldwin) wrote:
>
>
> I don't think it's easy-to-ignore weird cranks unfortunately but
> organized religious groups that seem to mind any interpretation of
> Jesus that doesn't show him as the white guy with scraggly beard. A
> few instances I recall was when a Broadway play was going to feature a
> black actor playing Jesus and also when a black Jesus was featured in
> a Madonna video, and when one of the educational channels was doing a
> special on the life of Jesus that featured some new details about how
> he may have looked.
>
I can't recall an uproar about a Broadway play, but I do remember the
Madonna thing.
My recollection is that folks were more upset about Madonna planting a big
juicy kiss on Jesus' lips than as to what color his skin was.
I also haven't heard of any organized religious groups being outraged by the
PBS special, or for that matter, by any portrayal of Jesus as anything than
white-bread.
I guess if you are looking for people to be outraged about something, you
can certainly
find them, but I wouldn't consider a few isolated instance as indicative
of anything.