The Young Messiah
is opening in theaters tomorrow around the country. I am always
interested to see the origins of religious themed movies and how they are
received by the public. Anne Rice wrote the book which the movie is based
on. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt tells the story of the 7 year old
Jesus through his own eyes. The premise sounds interesting to
me. I was surprised to find that while Ms. Rice was raised
Catholic, she later became agnostic as a young adult, and then returned to
Catholicism during the period that she wrote the book. She has now
distanced herself from the church again over her positions on social issues,
but claims that God is still a big part of her life. It will be
interesting to see how all of the searching might play out in her depiction of
Jesus in this movie.
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