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Is it wrong that a female portray Jesus Christ?

Jonathan Bailey

Well-Known Member
Mother Angelica thought so in 1993.
I think so too.


I think it was an embarrassment to America when the Pope visited Denver to see a broad portraying Christ.

I do believe that God has one and only one begotten Son. No begotten daughters of God are ever mentioned in the Good Book.

Can you imagine a woman playing Babe Ruth in a film or even Neil Armstrong?
Can you imagine a girl playing Pinocchio?
Can you imagine a boy playing Mary, the Mother of Jesus (except in Shakespeare's time)?
Can you imagine a muscle man like Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger or the Iron Sheik playing Queen Victoria?
 
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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Mother Angelica thought so in 1993.
I think so too.


I think it was an embarrassment to America when the Pope visited Denver to see a broad portraying Christ.

I do believe that God has one only begotten Son. No begotten daughters in the Good Gook.
You think that's bad?
Now there's talk of a handicapped differently abled black
Hasidic Jewish gender questioning transfemale James Bond.
Er...."Jamie" Bond.
 
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Epic Beard Man

Bearded Philosopher
Thank gods I'm a Pagan where we don't give a crap what's between your legs when it comes to leadership roles or portrayals of divinity. :D

But people caring about gender is not the result of religion. Conservative fundamentalists are the ones that overemphasize traditionalism.
 

Jonathan Bailey

Well-Known Member
Sad that you refer women as "broads."
Any female that dares portray Our Lord and Savior is not worthy of the title "lady".

It's utter perversion. It's an abominable blasphemy. It's the devil's very own craft.

It makes a mockery of Christ. It vainly tries to cheapen divinity.
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
Oh, and to respond to your edits? Yeah, it's painfully easy for me to imagine all of those things. I mean, none of the examples you gave connect to mandatory sexual functions. If you asked me to imagine a human male giving birth, well... I can, but it's physically impossible (transsexuality notwithstanding).
 

Jonathan Bailey

Well-Known Member
Oh, and to respond to your edits? Yeah, it's painfully easy for me to imagine all of those things. I mean, none of the examples you gave connect to mandatory sexual functions. If you asked me to imagine a human male giving birth, well... I can, but it's physically impossible (transsexuality notwithstanding).
I know for fact that the male seahorse carries the young inside his body. But no, I can't dare dream of a man of the Homo sapiens kind being pregnant any more than I can imagine a Homo sapiens woman penetrate and "fertilize" a man with her eggs.
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
I know for fact that the male seahorse carries the young inside his body.

Not sure how that's relevant. You only talk about humans in your OP, and I specified humans in my response. I mean, if you want to bring the entire spectrum of biodiversity into this we can, but do so at your own risk because it will really not serve your argument well at all.
 

JJ50

Well-Known Member
Mother Angelica thought so in 1993.
I think so too.


I think it was an embarrassment to America when the Pope visited Denver to see a broad portraying Christ.

I do believe that God has one and only one begotten Son. No begotten daughters of God are ever mentioned in the Good Book.

Can you imagine a woman playing Babe Ruth in a film or even Neil Armstrong?
Can you imagine a girl playing Pinocchio?
Can you imagine a boy playing Mary, the Mother of Jesus (except in Shakespeare's time)?
Can you imagine a muscle man like Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger or the Iron Sheik playing Queen Victoria?

If a god exists it might be female, and why not? Maybe Jesus was transgender!:D
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Mother Angelica thought so in 1993.
I think so too.


I think it was an embarrassment to America when the Pope visited Denver to see a broad portraying Christ.

I do believe that God has one and only one begotten Son. No begotten daughters of God are ever mentioned in the Good Book.

Can you imagine a woman playing Babe Ruth in a film or even Neil Armstrong?
Can you imagine a girl playing Pinocchio?
Can you imagine a boy playing Mary, the Mother of Jesus (except in Shakespeare's time)?
Can you imagine a muscle man like Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger or the Iron Sheik playing Queen Victoria?
I dunno. Sometimes role reversal can be a lot of fun.
 

whirlingmerc

Well-Known Member
Mother Angelica thought so in 1993.
I think so too.


I think it was an embarrassment to America when the Pope visited Denver to see a broad portraying Christ.

I do believe that God has one and only one begotten Son. No begotten daughters of God are ever mentioned in the Good Book.

Can you imagine a woman playing Babe Ruth in a film or even Neil Armstrong?
Can you imagine a girl playing Pinocchio?
Can you imagine a boy playing Mary, the Mother of Jesus (except in Shakespeare's time)?
Can you imagine a muscle man like Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger or the Iron Sheik playing Queen Victoria?

It seems a bit bizarre for a woman to portray Christ as in the four gospels and seems a misrepresentation at some level. What's the purpose?

If you mean in some sense men and women believers are in a sense ambassadors for Christ or have the spirit of Christ here in the world. That's fine

However, regarding the mass in Latin? I'm not seeing Biblical support for that and think the language of the common people is better after all the New Testament was written in street greek
 
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Eddi

Agnostic
Premium Member
There's a possibility Jesus may have been both male and female in terms of what organs he had, see this article:

Jesus may have been a hermaphrodite, claims academic

So at least one academic is entertaining it as a possibility

According to Wikipedia 1 in every 1,500 births is intersex, and those would be only the ones that are externally observable, so the true number is likely to be higher

Pic related, (far left)
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If this were the case, a woman portraying him would be much less of an issue

But of course, we will never know until he returns. Not that it matters anyway...
 
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crossfire

LHP Mercuræn Feminist Heretic ☿
Premium Member
Mother Angelica thought so in 1993.
I think so too.


I think it was an embarrassment to America when the Pope visited Denver to see a broad portraying Christ.

I do believe that God has one and only one begotten Son. No begotten daughters of God are ever mentioned in the Good Book.

Can you imagine a woman playing Babe Ruth in a film or even Neil Armstrong?
Can you imagine a girl playing Pinocchio?
Can you imagine a boy playing Mary, the Mother of Jesus (except in Shakespeare's time)?
Can you imagine a muscle man like Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger or the Iron Sheik playing Queen Victoria?
Helen Mirren totally rocked the role of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Now I wanna go watch this movie again!
 
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ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Any female that dares portray Our Lord and Savior is not worthy of the title "lady".

It's utter perversion. It's an abominable blasphemy. It's the devil's very own craft.

It makes a mockery of Christ. It vainly tries to cheapen divinity.


Chances are he didnt exist as depicted in the bible anyway so that is something of a venomous rant for a possibility
 

Neutral Name

Active Member
Mother Angelica thought so in 1993.
I think so too.


I think it was an embarrassment to America when the Pope visited Denver to see a broad portraying Christ.

I do believe that God has one and only one begotten Son. No begotten daughters of God are ever mentioned in the Good Book.

Can you imagine a woman playing Babe Ruth in a film or even Neil Armstrong?
Can you imagine a girl playing Pinocchio?
Can you imagine a boy playing Mary, the Mother of Jesus (except in Shakespeare's time)?
Can you imagine a muscle man like Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger or the Iron Sheik playing Queen Victoria?

I saw a light haired white man portray Jesus in a church once. I thought that was very wrong. And all of those European paintings of Jesus as a light white guy, I think they should be burned. It is so wrong to depict Jesus in a way he didn't look. Since he was a Jew back in the day, he would have had dark hair, brown eyes and tan skin. We need to get rid of anything that doesn't show that. Wouldn't that include a lot of stuff at the Vatican and early Byzantine mosaics, any American made movies about Jesus, etc. Oh well, we can't have Jesus wrongly portrayed, can we?
 
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