American Gods series is full of gods, demigods, deities, spirits of all kinds. But one god was noticeably missing from American Gods TV show for the most of the first season. On American Gods, is Jesus a new or an old god? Why Jesus was not invited to join Wednesday? Why Jesus – and Christianity – is crucial for American Gods? We’ve seen gods from Norse, Slavic and Ancient Egyptian mythology, and more rare ones, like Hindu and Zoroastrian. So why Christianity is almost absent from American Gods series? We expected that the representative of a dominant faith would have played a bigger role on the show, right? Let’s see how exactly Jesus is mentioned in Neil Gaiman’s book. It seems that it was made only to remind us about yet another forgotten god – Mithras – and tell that Jesus took his birth day for himself. But Jesus was never brought into the picture in person. Did Neil Gaiman ever thought of including Jesus into American Gods, or at least expanding his storyline? Oh yes, he actually did! He even wrote a scene in which Jesus and Shadow meet over a glass of wine. But Gaiman took that scene out again – and it stayed so until the 10th anniversary edition of the book. However, America has changed a lot since then, and just omitting Christianity from the epic tale of American Gods would be strange, to say the least. Moreover, television (what an irony – one of the new gods!) allows giving the characters much bigger attention than they had in the novel. So the showrunners did not fail to bring Christianity to the story, and, of course, its major figure – Jesus Christ himself. On American Gods, is Jesus a new or an old god? Bryan Fuller and Michael Green explained it best of all: they placed him between the old religions and the new gods of the technology era. But why Jesus was not invited to join Wednesday’s war? Watch this video to find out more on this!
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