The New Testament as set on modern America with: - the religious traditionalists as the Phirasees - Mary Magdaline as a (former?) teen prostitute - Jesus' mother as a Latina teen mother (maybe a Dreamer?) - Jesus' social father as ethnically Middle Eastern and Muslim (and stepping up into marriage, as in the original story). I'd like that relationship to last. - the Disciples being as varied to modern senses as they were in the source material (an ex-religious fundie, an ultra-liberal superactivist, Doves and Hawks,...) - Jesus actually having the people skills to get those diverse groups to work together - Jesus ect all being religious, but not being preachy - miracles! Which are explained away as 'declared dead too soon,' 'everyone brought lunch,' 'drugs in the water supply' - the preaching gets flagged as a cult... and they end up talking to ICE or the Feds... and they pick up at least one new recruit - I also think it would be interesting if Jesus were younger than most of the disciples - please can we have more gender/race/abledness/other diversity among the Disciples?
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The New Testament as set on modern America with:
- the religious traditionalists as the Phirasees
- Mary Magdaline as a (former?) teen prostitute
- Jesus' mother as a Latina teen mother (maybe a Dreamer?)
- Jesus' social father as ethnically Middle Eastern and Muslim (and stepping up into marriage, as in the original story). I'd like that relationship to last.
- the Disciples being as varied to modern senses as they were in the source material (an ex-religious fundie, an ultra-liberal superactivist, Doves and Hawks,...)
- Jesus actually having the people skills to get those diverse groups to work together
- Jesus ect all being religious, but not being preachy
- miracles! Which are explained away as 'declared dead too soon,' 'everyone brought lunch,' 'drugs in the water supply'
- the preaching gets flagged as a cult... and they end up talking to ICE or the Feds... and they pick up at least one new recruit
- I also think it would be interesting if Jesus were younger than most of the disciples
- please can we have more gender/race/abledness/other diversity among the Disciples?