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Judas Iscariot was really, really torn about betraying Jesus and was just misunderstood, anyway. And Pontius Pilate? Well, he was just an honest, but beleaguered public servant who was just trying to please his wife. Both men were not really bad guys…. or at least that is how the BBC will present these characters in their newest re-imagining of the final days of Jesus Christ to air this http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=273 — an effort that comes on the heels of last year’s version of the Nativity that portrayed Mary and Joseph as illegal immigrants.
The producers, of course, are denying that they intend to re-write the character’s history, but they do admit that they are trying to portray Judas Iscariot and Pontius Pilate in a “more sympathetic light” causing Christians to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3255 over the PC treatment.Judas is portrayed as torn between his loyalties to Jesus and Caiaphas, who organised the plot to kill Jesus… Pilate, played by James Nesbitt, is shown struggling to manage his wife’s social aspirations and his career as he tried to “keep a lid” on tensions in Jerusalem.
The Pilate revision is interesting in that they are creating a story out of whole cloth. There is nothing in the Bible about Pilate’s wife causing him to send Jesus to the cross so that she might climb Jerusalem’s social ladder unless the BBC has found a version of that text others don’t seem to have access to.
From a Western Voices correspondent: Like http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2549, from Muslims.