Posted by Runshouse21 at nytgate1.nytimes.com on February 23, 2004 at 09:23:36:
In Reply to: Wait a minute... posted by PantherModern on February 23, 2004 at 09:22:44:
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: : "The consistent trend has been to make him more human, to move away from the remote, Godlike Christ, so as to render a Jesus that his followers could identify with. Caravaggio did it for Italians in the 17th century with a suffering, peasant Jesus, and the filmmaker Kevin Smith reflected the contemporary "Jesus is my best friend" mentality by introducing a smiling "Buddy Christ" in his 1999 theological romp, "Dogma.""
: I need to be a member of the New York Times online in order to find Jesus? No deal. Apparently God has a Times-online stock option.