Commentary
It tells you something about the times that when you Google “Jesus Christ,” the first suggestion that pops up in the drop-down menu is “Jesus Christ Superstar.” As a ubiquitous phenomenon of popular modern culture, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has been one of the most effective forces for the infantilization of the Western mind of the past half-century, and it is entirely typical that, after “Joseph and his Technicolor Dreamcoat,” Lloyd Webber’s second blockbuster hit amounted to a vocalized version of The Idiot’s Guide to Christology.
