If you know nothing else of Christ you know that he died for the sins of man. He allowed himself to be crucified to pay the debt for humanity's errors that they may find salvation.

Jason as well died for the sins of man, but was an unwilling victim of them. Rut and neglect led directly to his death by drowning. An attempt to purge sinners by his mother, through murder instead of forgiveness, not only led to her own death (Remember, Jason's mother is also part of the trinity), but the constant unending resurrections of her son to continue the work of wiping away the sins of the world as she saw them.

You have to remember that Jason has almost never been seen attacking children on screen, and even in expanded comics and books it's very rare. Actor Kane Hodder, the most famous portrayer of the character, even nixed a scene where Voorhees kicks a dog as something that the killer would not do. There's a reason for that.

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Jason as an entity is defined by two emotions, one obvious and one subtle. The first is rage. Never-ending rage, but why is he so angry? Over his own death certainly, but there is more than that.

Why did his mother go on her killing spree? It was because a new group of horny camp counselors were once again in charge of yet another group of kids, and she had no desire to see them end up like her son. Her desire for vengeance was the catalyst for her methodology, but her overall intent was still the saving of children from the wages of what she considered sin... a desire shared by her son, though both continued to be warped by the never ending demonic source of both their power's.

In the end, Jason's mask hides more than his deformed scarred face and his repetitious risings from the grave are more than horror movie schlock. Jason represents something closer to an almighty with a birth defect, a salvation that missed the mark and did arrive with a bloody sword... or machete in this case. That's my theory at any rate.

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