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Resurrecting the Middle-Eastern Jesus
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2014/10/resurrecting-the-middle-eastern-jesus.htmlKilling Jesus might have just killed White Jesus. National Geographic Channel’s new miniseries, Killing Jesus, has done what virtually no other mainstream Jesus film or television series has done. Haaz SleimanThey cast a Middle Eastern man to portray a Middle Eastern man. Shocking, I know.
The four-part miniseries, set to air in 2015, announced today that Lebanon-born actor Haaz Sleiman (The Visitor) will portray the title character Jesus. Now for virtually any other subject, this wouldn’t be surprising or even worth mentioning. I mean, if you were filming a Martin Luther King, Jr., miniseries, you wouldn’t cast Jim Caviezel or Diogo Morgado in the lead role. It’d be ridiculous and racist and insulting. They’d be laughed right off the screen.
But when it comes to Jesus of Nazareth? Jesus of Palestine? Jesus of the Middle East? Apparently, only white Europeans can play the savior of the world. Until now.
The four-part miniseries, set to air in 2015, announced today that Lebanon-born actor Haaz Sleiman (The Visitor) will portray the title character Jesus. Now for virtually any other subject, this wouldn’t be surprising or even worth mentioning. I mean, if you were filming a Martin Luther King, Jr., miniseries, you wouldn’t cast Jim Caviezel or Diogo Morgado in the lead role. It’d be ridiculous and racist and insulting. They’d be laughed right off the screen.
But when it comes to Jesus of Nazareth? Jesus of Palestine? Jesus of the Middle East? Apparently, only white Europeans can play the savior of the world. Until now.
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Then again, the secondary and tertiary thoughts I had would probably have landed me a hide.
So, I'll leave it at that.
Is this by any chance based on the O'Reilly book? If so, I probably won't be watching it.
They could hire the actual Jesus and I wouldn't waste my time watching anything by Bill O'Reilly.
