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Did SNL commit blasphemy?

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By Alan Bean

Saturday Night Live has everybody talking.  Actually, the sketch described below has folks beating their chests, rending their garments and howling at the moon.

Is it blasphemy to portray Jesus as a revenge-seeking action hero from a Quentin Tarantino movie?

It all depends.  If you portrait of Jesus is primarily culled from the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) then the SNL spoof will make you wonder what these guys were thinking.  On the other hand, if your vision of Jesus is a cross between the more graphic bits of the book of Revelation, a Jesus-is-a-badass Carmen number, and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series (more on this below), then SNL is pretty much on target.  Fred Clark, who has been writing a running commentary on the Left Behind books for edification and laughs, has some insights that will amaze and horrify you.

SNL’s ‘DJesus’ is a pacifist compared to Tim LaHaye’s lethal Death Jesus

February 20, 2013

Here’s the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, as envisioned by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins in The Glorious Appearing [note: this is R-rated graphic violence]: (more…)