Or it could be that we’re drawn to a vision of Jesus like Buddy Christ in Kevin Smith’s 1999 film Dogma—a new Jesus cooked up by the Catholic Church because the image of Jesus on the crucifix was just so depressing. “Christ didn’t come to earth to give us the willies,” says Cardinal Ignatius Glick (George Carlin). “He came to help us out. He was a booster!”
