Religious jokes are always funny.
Unless they’re about your beliefs. (Or you’re like us and absolutely nothing is sacred.)
But sometimes a controversial interpretation of religion, humorous or otherwise, can shed new light on the subject and challenge the status quo.
That’s putting mildly what takes place in Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption, a documentary that shows the reactions of anti-gay religious groups to the production of Terrence McNally’s passion play, which depicts Jesus as a gay man living in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The documentary follows the theater troupe around the world over a five-year period, revealing the heartfelt and passionate reactions of those for and against the production, which originally opened in 1998 to bomb threats and nonstop protests in New York.
What happens more than a decade later is no less intense.
Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption
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