Now, I know most of you straight folks are asking, "Why are these two gays, "Ryan and I" watching a series that condemns homosexuality?" But ye of little faith, behold your judgement. Need I remind you that the Bible contains 6 admonishments to Homosexuals and 362 to Heterosexuals? But that's besides the point - Roma Downey (Touched by Angel) and Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Voice, Celebrity Apprentice) have done a decent job with the show.
Sure, they could have chosen another actor to play Satan instead of someone that looked like our President, and used someone a little darker to play Jesus, instead of the hot, Abercrombie model they chose to use; But then conservatives wouldn't have watched it, and liberals would have shunned it. And just so you know - while The History Channel has garnered the most viewers it has ever collected in it's lifetime, the producers of the show love our President, are Christian and have contributed to the Democratic Party. Now that I've clarified that, run, hypocritcal Christians, run!!!!The Bible, covers as much as it can in such a short span. It's almost impossible to make a movie or series that would cover every aspect of the Bible, but you could obviously tell Burnett and Downey were trying to link the story of Jesus from the very Beginning. Tonight we watch the series Finale, as our savior will die for all your sins.
Oh and mine and Ryan's too. :-)
7 comments:
why would they have used someone darker to play Jesus?
umm, probably because Jesus wasn't European or Portuguese for that matter. Just sayn'.
wasn't he Jewish?
Yep. But come to think of it, we don't really know what Jesus looked like, there are no physical descriptions of him in the Bible, or the history books. When I wrote the post this morning, I was just trying to convey that he probably wasn't fair-skinned like most people wish him to be. No one will ever know; Unless you're a believer, then someday you will :-)
Most middle eastern men do not look like the all American boy next door, but God forbid if they did make Jesus actually look like he was from that part of the world I'm sure the far right would be calling for the crucifixion of the show's creators for making Jesus look like a Muslim. Just saying.
@Peter, yeah...that's kind of my point. You can't really cry foul about a deity's skin tone when no one alive has any idea what he looked like. The whole thing is silly.
And hence the title to this series. "My Christian Thoughts".
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