Click here (ASOR) to read one Biblical scholar's critical take on the History Channel's popular new 'The Bible' series...
What are your thoughts about such casting choices? How do women end up being portrayed via such choices, directly or indirectly?
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Honestly, I think that someone just wanted to pick apart this series... I don't imagine that the producers were intentionally being racist or stereotyping. BUT I do agree that satan and President Obama look an awful lot alike...
Mylinda
Life without cable TV! It's a drag I can't comment on the series but luckily there is YouTube to catch the Obama-Satan connection.
Type casting biblical characters is nothing new. Blue-eyed Jesus has graced countless storybook covers and paintings. And British accents always add a touch of authenticity (for Americans anyway) to the big screen biblical blockbusters. Same old same old.
-Julie
HAHAHAHA omg just saying that this is too funny of a comparison for Satan/Obama look-a-like thing. I am from Texas and the year before Obama was elected I was at very southern style 4th of July celebration and there where these old spicy-southern-bell type ladies in there 80's talking about the election.....well one of them had one too many margaritas I think because she yelled out (quite in a serious matter-of-factly manner) "Obama is the Anti-Christ"!!! Had to share that funny story XD
Anyways I am sorry but I think the the character of satan was just trying to look dark and tempting.....the stereotypical vision as long as it is not the skinny version of Hell Boy. Obama is doing a nice job of destroying the "New Roman Empire" though so to speak but maybe the obama thing was a coincidence. I couldn't see his ears......but if they were big then It most definitelly was not a coincident. Sorry if I am offending anyone. Not my intension. I am just not a very politically correct person.
This is off topic but it bugs me that in the series, right off the bat, they messed something up! The wise men were called "wise" for a reason. In the bible (at least the one I grew up reading) they did not give the place of Jesus' birth to King Herod the 1st. They caught on that he meant harm to Jesus and diverted his attentions elsewhere. Correct me if I am wrong.
-Angela R.
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