The Passion According to Boisfeuillet Jones
The annual staging of the Atlanta Passion Play is coming up at the Civic Center.
Ever since Mel Gibson’s Passion raised the bar, the demand for realism in Passion Plays is so strong I hear that at the Civic Center production just before the big crucifixion scene they drop a puff of smoke so the actor playing Jesus can run off and be replaced by one of those pickled corpses leftover from the Bodies exhibit. That way they can actually nail it to a cross and beat the shit out it in the kind of explicit bloodletting the Opus Dei crowd now demands.
The only flaw in its verisimilitude is that one minute Jesus is an historically inaccurate blonde-haired, blue-eyed white guy and the next he’s a dead Chinese dissident whose organs have been partially harvested.
That, and the part where Judas shows a Bum Fight video.
posted by Brian Bannon @ 12:14 PM
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using that corpse presents quite the conundrum for the purists as it will have to be nailed to the cross at the wrists and not at the center of the hands, as the bible described. reasearch has shown that the tissue of the hand would not support the weight of a man's body. the type of scientific data that only the nailing of a corpse to a cross and it repeatedly falling to the ground can cull.
regardless, i don't suspect much of an outcry from the Opus Dei crowd. they've been a lot more easy going since the vatican denounced the act of self mortification. apparently they've taken to inserting beads up their ass as a practical substitution.
That explains the yellowed rosaries I've been seeing at the Latin Mass.
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