Do you guys guys remember when I guess it would have been Zack Snyder was trying out Nicholas Cage for the role of

Superman. It was in the long hair gone in 60 seconds era Nick Cage. I mean it was when

he was really doing the quirky stuff. Well he's always really done the quirky stuff but it was when he was really doing the quirky stuff well he's always

really done the quirky stuff but it was when he was thought of as maximum well gosh

kind of a lot to happen since then quirky weird and they put him in the

Superman muscle suit and they snapped a few pictures and those got leaked and I assume they got leaked intentionally to figure out if the audience who has no Nick Cage for a long time would accept him in this new role in this new light and the answer

was a resounding no and further what are you thinking?

It was a disaster and so they pivoted a different way and I think they picked a guy who's worked pretty well for Superman.

But there's a reality there that the people behind that cinematic universe understood,

and that is that when you get locked in on a place in your

brain where you put somebody it can be very difficult to put that somebody in a different place in your brain.

For example, let's say that you knew somebody

since they were a little kid and you watched them

bumble through school and and do life, and learn things.

And then all of a sudden that same person becomes a regional religious celebrity who's performing miracles in claiming to be the completion

of the religion to which you and everyone you've ever met it hears.

Understandably it could be difficult for a person to make that mental pivot.

When we think about Jesus in the context of the book of Matthew,

we tend to think of it as people who already know the reputation.

This guy's a rock star, he's the most famous person in history, and we've seen him portrayed

as such a bazillion times over the course of our lives, whether're religious or not and we've heard his words

framed as scripture as infinitely wise and so it's almost impossible for us to picture the kid version of Jesus. It's

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