A Pilgrim’s Digression

I was browsing the video aisle in Wal-Mart today, and the following DVD cover caught my eye.

The title indicates that this DVD must be a movie about Jesus. “King of Kings,” it says, and the subtitle reinforces that idea: “There is only one.” So why does Jesus look like he is ready to rip someone’s head off? And what’s with the Nazi Iron Cross around his neck?

Strange, I thought. So I look closer, and then I see at the top of the DVD box, “World Wrestling Entertainment.”

I almost laughed out loud, right there in the store. You have to admit there is some irony, here. Wal-Mart–the “Christian” department store that won’t stock Maxim magazine because it contains suggestive photos of women, apparently will stock a blasphemous DVD that depicts a steroid-injected wrestler as Jesus Christ.

If you want to see Christ in action, sweaty and oiled, headlocking his opponent until they scream for mercy, here is the official WWE page for the DVD.