Orlando, FloridaUnder a small but imposing skyline of faux-ancient pillars, Ron and Chris Job prepare to watch their son in the role of a lifetime: Jesus Christ. For the past decade 44-year-old Michael Job (pronounced like the Book of—) has donned a crown of thorns and a loincloth they call “the diaper” at the Holy Land Experience, an immersive biblical theme park in the epicenter of American amusement: Orlando, Florida.

Before his first role of the day, Michael descends the stairs of King Herod’s temple (a replica supposedly one-third the size of the original) and starts to intercept a stream of visitors leaving Mary’s House, where they’ve just watched Mary discover she’s pregnant. In the nearby Bethlehem set, three camels