I did grow up in a nominally Christian home and JCS helped introduce me to the Gospel as well. Like you, I still love it, and I love that the movie was filmed in Israel. The lyricist Tim Rice said that he had no intention of being disrespectful or blasphemous; his idea was to write an account of Jesus Christ’s years of ministry from Judas Iscariot’s point of view.
What “Gospel” did it introduce you to, exactly?