article_snippet.sent: Instead, every culture, every generation, remakes Jesus in its own image.
article_snippet.sent: If not following all of history's clues -- Hollywood has yet to cast an actual Jew as Jesus -- then at least inching closer.
article_snippet.sent: Does God have a prayer in Hollywood?
article_snippet.sent: What unites these disparate projects, besides a recognition that Jesus always draws an audience and the Good Book is good for business, is the type of men chosen to play Christ.
article_snippet.sent: Haaz Sleiman, from "Killing Jesus," was born and raised in Lebanon.
article_snippet.sent: Jesus's also Muslim, a fact that annoyed some Christians, who took to Twitter to voice Haaz Sleiman, from "Killing Jesus displeasure.
article_snippet.sent: Adam Bond, a British actor of mixed heritage, including Native American, portrays Jesus during the historical reenactments in "Finding Jesus.
article_snippet.sent: And Juan Pablo Di Pace -- a Argentinian named after the late St. Pope John Paul II -- takes a starring role in "A.D.," replacing Diogo Morgado, dubbed "hot Jesus," by some, "smarmy Jesus" by others.
article_snippet.sent: But there's another, deeper meaning behind our new, multicultural Jesuses, scholars say.