What is it?

[yomotalking]

I was in the high-street, in England, and I saw a poster with

"JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR" on it.

I stared at it.

My friend had told me the song that accompanies it.

Suddenly, out of the blue, something rose inside me.

A fury.

I didn't even know what it was.....and yet I felt as if it was a blasphemy.

Can anyone tell me what it is?>

Yomo

[nebula]

JCS is a musical about Jesus - only it isn't exactly the most Christian view of Jesus floating around, if you catch my drift.

In this version, there is no mention of Jesus rising from the dead.

[Gerioke]

JCS is a musical about Jesus - only it isn't exactly the most Christian view of Jesus floating around, if you catch my drift.

In this version, there is no mention of Jesus rising from the dead.

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And Jesus is a hippy

[PwrInTheBld]

I remember seeing it in the '70s

[Guest Zayit]

I recognize the feeling yomo, because your spirit was reacting to this blasphemous "musical" that is still being played out after decades.

Jesus Christ Superstar", has been called "A REVERENT ROCK OPERA", by Life Magazine. Life also said that it had achieved "worldwide success."

"Superstar" has been performed in theaters around the world, in public and auditoriums and in many churches. It has been recorded on two long play records (87 minutes), earned 2 million dollars in the first four months after it was released October 1970. It has been predicted that it will be an all-time best seller.

But it is not "reverent" at all, but irreverent to the core.

Lyrics and music for "Jesus Christ Superstar" was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. They do not believe that Jesus Christ was God.

"It happens that we DON'T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place." So said Tim Rice as quoted in Time, November 9, 1970

Tim Rice who wrote the words for "Superstar" told Life magazine , "We are basically trying to tell the story of Christ as a man. I think he Increases in stature by looking at him as a man." ~ Life Magazine, May 28, 1971

No, he doesn't he is decreased, that is what blasphemy is.

Some more quotes from the writers of the "operas":

In a recorded interview Tim Rice was asked about whether the lyrics were negative about religion. He said, "No--in a way, it's neither positive nor negative, it's just asking questions . . . The fact that an awful lot happened in Christ's life that could easily be legend, I don't think diminishes the importance of the legend. But I think, as the years roll on, in the 20th and 21st centuries, I think less and less people are going to thank of Christ as a god, and I think more people are going to see him as a generally good thing. I don't see him as a god at all, and the opera doesn't categorically say he wasn't, but I think it leaves the question very open."

Tim Rice said, "I regard Christ as a man, placing him on a human level." Quoted from Seventeen magazine, March 1971. Webber is quoted in Rolling Stone, December 2, 1970 as saying, "I personally don't think that Jesus is God."

What has that done to the way people view Jesus in the last 35 years do you think?

The writers of "Jesus Christ Superstar" present Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of Judas. In a recorded interview they said, " . . . the idea of the whole opera Is to have Christ seen through the eyes of Judas, and Christ as a man, not as a God. And the fact that Christ himself is just as mixed up and unaware of exactly what he is, as Judas is."

The writers seem to have a very high regard for Judas, the one who betrayed our Lord. Rice said, "In the Gospels, Judas is a cardboard figure. Every time he is mentioned there is a snide remark. I believe that Judas was the most intelligent of the Apostles and that is why he got into such a dilemma." Quoted from Life Magazine, May 28, 1971.

In the opera, Mary Magdalene says:

"I don't know how to love him

What to do, how to move him

I've been changed, yes, really changed

In these past few days; when I've seen myself

I seem like someone else

I don't know how to take this

I don't see why he moves me

He's a man, he's just a man

And I've had so many men before

In very many ways He's just one more."

Any Bible believer should be shocked by the above verse, supposedly uttered by Mary Magdalene. Dear reader please think upon these words quoted by Mary Magdalene, "He's a man, he's just a man, And I've had so many men before, In very many ways, He's just one more." Do you not see the awful way they are dragging the character of our Savior in the gutter?

Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute, despite the common teaching, she was a woman that Jesus freed from the possession of devils. She wasn't a hooker as this opera portrays.

[yomotalking]

Disgusting.

Any thing else?

Yomo

[Gerioke]

Godspell was another rock opera based on Jesus, was it not?

[EricH]

Some good music and very bad theology

[yomotalking]

Why?

What's the point?

Yomo

[nebula]

Some good music and very bad theology

Agreed!