# Just a little confession. I love Jesus Christ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349 "2008-11-24T23:17:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/21 "2008-11-25T02:42:00Z")
I’m a Christian, and I’m rather partial to the heavy metal song “Jesus! You cunt-guzzling manwhore!” ---
**Author:** ![timbicile59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@timbicile59](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timbicile59)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/22 "2008-11-25T03:25:23Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > I’m a Christian, and I’m rather partial to the heavy metal song “Jesus! You cunt-guzzling manwhore!” the best name for a sequel. ever. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/23 "2008-11-25T03:44:54Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I think I’m coming down with a little cold, because I had “This Jesus Must Die” stuck in my head earlier, and I can only sing Caiaphas’s part when I have a cold. > > _One thing I’ll say for him, > Jesus is cool._ Try vacuuming to it, in your very best bass voice. It’s oddly satisfying. “No, wait! We need a more permanent solution to this problemmmmm” \ _I see-ee blood and destruction our elimination because of two cats blood and destruction because of two cats_ \ “Fools, you have no perception, the stakes we are gambing are frightingly high, we must crush it completly, so like Dust before it, this cat yack must die for the sake of the household (must die, must die, this catyack must die) so like Dust before it This cat yack must die”\* I was Mary’s understudy in my High School production. I\* so\* wanted to be Caiaphas . . . Alas, I’m an alto. (I’ve had a window seat reserved for 30-some years. Hush your mouth, and get offa my lawn) ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/24 "2008-11-25T04:24:07Z")
I thought I was the only one. I’m _Richard Dawkins-Christopher Hitchens_ Atheist (that is, I believe religion does more harm than good), but I love studying religion and religious bio-films. I love Jesus Christ Superstar, but I think (other than the music being good) a lot of it is the critical point of view the story has. Jesus’ last week as told through the view of Judas? How can that not be interesting? I was lucky enough to catch the revival 10-15 years ago with Ted Neely, Carl Anderson and Dennis DeYoung of STYX (as Pilot). Carl Anderson was always great (saw him do it twice, once with Sebastion Bach as Jesus), but Ted Neely was outstanding live. Perhaps it was because it was 20 years after the movie and his voice had matured, but when he did Gethsemane, it brought tears to my eyes. He didn’t have that whine he has in the movie, but a full-throated cry that shook the house. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/25 "2008-11-25T05:01:46Z")
> [@Mbossa](#): > > _Jesus is just alright with me > Jesus is just alright oh yeah_ I like the Robert Randolph version best. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/26 "2008-11-25T05:07:17Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > I was lucky enough to catch the revival 10-15 years ago with Ted Neely, Carl Anderson and Dennis DeYoung of STYX (as Pilot). Carl Anderson was always great (saw him do it twice, once with Sebastion Bach as Jesus), but Ted Neely was outstanding live. Perhaps it was because it was 20 years after the movie and his voice had matured, but when he did Gethsemane, it brought tears to my eyes. He didn’t have that whine he has in the movie, but a full-throated cry that shook the house. I wish I could have been there. Anderson was stunning as Judas, with a marvelous voice. The “other” (brown album cover, ?London stage production?) version had a strong voiced Christ, but a mostly merely competent supporting cast. My criticism of the two commonly available recordings hinges on the whiny (immature voice?) of Mr Neely in the movie soundtrack, and the beauty and clarity of the Lepers voices in the other. Christ has more lines than the Lepers, so Neely draws my wrath. I’ve spent decades bitching that Neely got the part because he was a skinny blonde who could carry a tune, and now you’ve gone and made me examine my bias. Damn you 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/27 "2008-11-25T05:30:28Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > and Dennis DeYoung of STYX (as Pilot). Sorry for the double post, and the even more left-field hijack, but it’s Pilate, not “pilot.” As in Pontius Pilate. It could be worse! My otherwise beloved husband _still_ teases me about the “Pharisees Plane” which is an airplane manufactured by the Swiss company Pilatus. :rolleyes: Beware the Nitpickers. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/28 "2008-11-25T11:58:11Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I also think JCS is an excellent musical and album. I was trying to sing “Heaven on Their Minds” just yesterday as I was cleaning. I am also an athiest. I may well be a hypocrite, but not on this evidence. Atheist here. My favourite band (Queensryche) did a cover of Heaven on Their Minds, which prompted me to check out the film version and several others on YouTube. I don’t think it’s hypocritical to enjoy art. The Sistine Chapel can be appreciated as a great work of art without accepting a belief in angles/heaven etc. I love some of William Blake’s art, much of which has a religous theme. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/29 "2008-11-25T12:45:04Z")
> [@MadPansy64](#): > > so like Dust before it > This cat yack must die" I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/30 "2008-11-26T00:43:04Z")
I’m an atheist, and I love all of the religious-themed things named in the OP, plus _Godspell_ and _Dogma_ and lots of others. I don’t feel it’s hypocritical. People produce powerful works of fiction all the time that resonate with audiences. There’s a reason the story of Jesus has had such huge appeal for two thousand years. It hits some of the most popular story elements: all-encompassing love, the misunderstood wise man who was just trying to help, a person with superpowers works for the cause of Good, the noble (and spectacularly violent) death of an innocent, victory over death. Add in the historical context of how Christianity has affected all of civilization, in ways large and small, good and bad, and you automatically have some compelling material with an infinite number of ways to approach it. ---
**Author:** ![Skylark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/31 "2008-11-28T06:27:26Z")
I don’t care if it rains or freezes. S’long as I got my plastic Jesus --sittin’ on the dashboard of my car. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/32 "2008-11-28T13:16:34Z")
The only good thing to come out of religion was the music–George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/33 "2008-11-28T14:15:49Z")
Whereas I’m a politically & theologically conservative Christian and I love- JCS Tori Amos XTC’s song “Dear God” The Rocky Horror Picture Show (I even found the theological symbolism in THAT.) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/34 "2008-11-28T14:21:03Z")
I was an atheist when I first heard JCS. I hated that I loved it, but I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/35 "2008-11-28T14:34:48Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The only good thing to come out of religion was the music–George Carlin I was gonna post that. I miss George. But anyway, I’m yet another person who had a conflict-filled renunciation of Christianity but still likes a lot of the music. Bach’s **Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring** and Handel’s **Messiah** lead a rather distinguished pack of gospel and choral music. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/36 "2008-11-28T16:19:52Z")
As a committed Jew, I feel you gentiles make some fine music. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/37 "2008-11-28T16:33:12Z")
Another atheist here, and I absolutely _love_ JCS! I bought the album when it first came out, and had the privilege of playing Annas (Caiaphas’ right-hand man) in two productions in the late 70s, as well as being in a production of _Godspell_. I also enjoy most Christmas carols and most religious classical music. Hypocrite? Hardly. Appreciation for fine art and music transcends religious belief (or non-belief). ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/38 "2008-12-01T06:09:49Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there. Sing it loud & proud, babe! (hosanna heysanna Damn horking cats. Make me get all creative with my housecleaning songs 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/39 "2008-12-01T07:01:21Z")
Me too, but I fell in love with the version of JCS put out by that lesbian musical duo the Indigo Girls so how can I feel like a hypocrite? I like Jars of Clay too. And Rock Me Sexy Jesus 😃 Godspell did nothing for me though. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349/40 "2008-12-01T07:15:53Z")
Wow. Hardcore militant atheist. My favorite works of literature are almost ALL from the POV of religious hysterics. Read David Sedaris with the knowledge that his favorite author is Flannery O’Connor, a Catholic literalist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-confession-i-love-jesus-christ/474349.md?page=3)