Maybe rants like these are why my coworkers keep being confused that I'm a Christian. I'm not.

Nov 30, 2008 19:18

Okay, Jesus Christ Superstar, I still love you so, but you can't go mixing and matching the Passion stories (well, really, all of the Gospel) from just whatever the hell Gospel you feel like. The Passion stories/all the stories in the different Gospels are radically different in really incompatible ways. What makes you think you can just pick and choose what details to include? For instance, you include Jesus' anxious prayer in Gethsemane and the utter failure of Peter, John, and James as guards, which only happens in Mark, and then send him to Herod? Jesus is tried by Herod only in Luke. None of the other Gospels mention anything at all about Herod having anything to do with Jesus' trial. In the others he's sent either to Caiaphas or Annas. And then you think that the last song can be "John Nineteen Forty-One"? Wrong, my friend. You must choose. The stories are completely different.

And I choose Mark, just because Jesus is so much radder in that one. John's Jesus is so damned cheeky. "Wah wah wah I'm God look how cool I am" *wipe snot*

Also, I gotta point out, you missed two key moments for ridiculous drama. In the arrest scene, you totally should have included the part about that slave's ear getting randomly cut off, and you should have included Mark's naked dude running around. That would have been awesome (Mk 14:51-52).


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