Which Parodies of Jesus are OK



There is "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "The Passion of Christ." A search engine just listed for me the top ten movies about Jesus. Jesus is a profit machine and those in the entertainment industry go for it. At an atheist conference I saw a stand-up comedian do a show as Jesus.

At a pride parade in Ireland included a fellow dressed at Jesus.  The link says those responsible should be punished. Ridicule, apparently, must be directed only at Satan.  

Christians pretending to know what Jesus said or how he said it have been plying their trade since the New Testament was written. The book of John was written long after some other books. It has many of the same stories but in John, Jesus is quoted page after page. While not even the earliest written books of the New Testament claim the authors personally heard Jesus say anything, writing done even later had many more verbatim quotes. This is why people like myself roll the eyes when I see the words, "Jesus said...." No one knows what Jesus said. We don't even know for certain there was a Jesus.

My thinking is, if someone who never saw nor heard Jesus speak claims he know precisely what Jesus said, how can he claim he knows how he said it. Might the entire Jesus thing have been parody back at the time it was all supposed to have happened?

If you are a person who wants to wear a rob and sandals and do parody of Jesus, I approve. 

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