Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell.
I heard that in a Cake song once, feel free to quote them.

Feed your lambs?

well you'd have to ask scott, but i would hope that pilate's anti-goat sentiments would be outweighed by JC's passionate dedication to both lambs and sheep.

Would the goat-sacrificing pagans take offense at Pontius saying that Jesus smelled like a goat? People can be sensitive, you know.

Patrick, being the only goat-sacraficing pagan you know I will of course try my hardest to be at the show for every performance.

i think we'll be surprised at a lot of religious peoples' responses to the play. as for me, i'm gonna invite every catholic, protestant, jew, muslim, buddhist and goat-sacrificing pagan i know to come out and see this. with, of course, a small caveat to a few of them about the potentially offensive language and innuendos (no pun intended, job). but as i realized in a conversation last night: how do we know that a few of JC's followers weren't just as conversant in "colorful language" as our foul-mouthed playwright?

On the other hand, I just gave a postcard to the chaplain here at the hospital where I work, and she was intrigued and excited at the description of the play. She's the same person who, a few years ago, said she thought conversations with atheists were valuable and exciting, because they can provide a good barometer by which to test and reaffirm her faith. This is in opposition to another person, in a meeting in which I said I was an atheist, who said he was afraid to talk to atheists because he might lose his faith. The chaplain certainly seems more secure, as well as more educated, in her faith, and I wonder whether some of the resistance might be related to a sense of insecurity.

On the other hand, my sister, who I believe is secure in her faith and would connect to some parts of the play, would be so put off by the language that she would leave or just shut herself completely.

Got to go. Work calls. Last night was wonderful.

Peace.

I think people would be open to "alternate means" - as long as those means didn't have the...detail...in which Guirgis' Satan describes the story of Job.

Frankly (no pun intended), I find it a bit sad that Frank's idea is implausible enough to be funny. Somehow the thought of died-in-the-wool Pope worshipers attending our show - as welcome as they would be to attend! - and "approving" of its tone and shall we say "method of message delivery" seems highly unlikely. I guess this is to be expected, but why is this? Why can't there be a receptivity to alternate means of introducing questions regarding spirituality within the mainstream of American religion?

And the pope is coming to town on Thursday. Suppose we could pass out postcards at the mass at Nationals Stadium?