You just hit the nail on the head. The dogmatic types can't watch JCSS with an open mind. If it doesn't come out of the King James Bible (which itself is an interpretation, but I digress), then it can't be right.
Talk about closing yourself off - or one better, closing off so many others who are reached outside of the KJV...
It's not about having an open mind about Superstar. It's about allowing G-d to move in the way He prefers without forcing Him into a box.
Half the time we think we are defending Him we are really defending ourselves. It helps to remember that He doesn't need to be protected by us or from us.
IMHO the dividing line should be this:
If someone is presenting someone who is clearly anti-G-d (Jesus was not G-d in flesh, Jesus was not resurrected, G-d is part of the universe, not its creator, etc.) then you are obliged to stand up for the truth.
If someone is presenting someone who is very similar to G-d but a little off, let him go if he is clearly interested in knowing G-d. You may be the one who is off. G-d is in the business of correcting His children and He will reach out to anyone who is dilligently seeking Him, no matter how mistaken they may be in their understanding of who He is.
Always remember that G-d is infinite and we are finite. Therefore any notion we have of Him will always be wrong - if only in that it will be incomplete for all eternity.
Shalom.
I took it for what it was -- a work of art.
From the perspective of art, it is no different that Handel, or even Da Vinci's Last Supper, or Michelangelo's Cistine Chapel -- it is an interpretation. However, when it is put to music, it takes on a more devotional tone for some, and is harder to accept as a work of art (in my opinion).
-PJ