No more "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Kennedy Center. Marco Rubio calls it an attack on Christianity

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81. I believe I know what Rubio's problem is with JCSS: It's the WRONG KIND OF JESUS!

Reminiscing on high school 1972-4, this musical and the album was a BFD. Jesus was one of us, not the other way around.

Hippie Jesus. Talking softly about peace and love. Antithetical to our parents' Jesus. Antithetical to the Vietnam War and Nixon. He belonged to US. He even looked like us: long hair, beard & moustache, sandals. And he never looked angry. This kind of Jesus we wouldn't mind following around. Taking God out of the Church. We were a new movement of disciples.

And almost all of us could sing every word to every song on the four sides of the album. With passion, with hope.

And Godspell was going on around the same time too.

I think our parents were just glad that we weren't running away to hippie communes or keeping Woodstock going indefinitely as drop-outs.

Returning to my original theme. JCSS is NOT part of the Christian Nationalist plan. Project 2025 wants to coerce Christians into a narrow, bigoted interpretation of The New Testament. Even mainstream Christianity (Presbyterians, Methodists, Espiscopalians, Lutherans) and Catholics will be under attack as heretics.

JCSS was/is liberation -- and we can't have any of THAT going on these days, right?

I know, I know, I know. Rubio's seeming objection was an African-American woman portraying Jesus and that was too much for him. But I maintain, if not for that interpretation of Jesus and the Gospels, it would have been something else.