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Swamp Thing, the plantlike hero of a DC Comics series for adults, is taking an involuntary vacation. Swamp Thing had been traveling through time in recent issues, meeting personalities ranging from Adolf Hitler to King Arthur. But an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth has proved too provocative. DC's editor in chief, Jenette Kahn, canceled the June issue (No. 88), in which Swamp Thing appears at the Garden of Gethsemane bearing the Holy Grail. Said Kahn: "We believed that the story concept would be offensive to many of our readers...
...Nazareth, 4,000 youngsters ran through the streets, hurling debris at security forces. In Umm al Fahm, an Israeli Arab town in Galilee, 3,000 demonstrators were dispersed with tear gas when they blocked a highway near the town. Police and soldiers took care not to use lethal force against the Israeli Arabs, and none were killed...
...formal solidity, moreover, the perimeter of Zurbaran's space often seems as thin as tissue, ready to collapse under the pressure of revelation -- and sometimes it literally does, as when the back wall of the otherwise "normal" domestic scene of The Virgin and Christ in the House of Nazareth dissolves in clouds of fulgid light while the young Jesus, foreseeing his Passion, pricks his finger on a thorn...
Branching out from the park's center in Jerusalem, Christian-World would feature both Bethlehem and Nazareth. In Bethlehem, one could imagine a hall of martyred saints along the same lines as Disneyland's current hall of dead U.S. Presidents. At the mere pull of a string, the vacationer could hear Joseph and Mary's arguments about possible infidelity and the three wise men debating what gift Emily Post would recommend for the birth of a savior...
...sends a positive message to women," he misjudges some Christian women. I am in favor of the ordination of women as a matter of justice, but I also believe that Christ was a Jewish man who died crucified at a certain date in a certain place. If Jesus of Nazareth has no historical validity, then Christianity has none either...