I some recollections of seeing this episode when I was quite young. I did not consider the alien the embodiment of Jesus Christ, considering people - I say unfortunately- believed what Jesus was saying. Okay maybe not straight away but a lot believed him straight away and that belief has been hindering us ever since.
Anyway, what I took from it and did again after just watching it, is the usual typicalness of humans from Earth never believing that aliens would be here to help us but to kill or destroy us. But it's one of the few alien tales TZ and Serling had a nice alien, nearly all had aliens being bad. Which is the only thing I didn't understand about Serling, considering he was so against prejudice. This is why I believe this was a story against prejudice. Not sure it was politically right to use a seemingly 'backward' Mexican setting. As citizens in the USA or anywhere in the world would have unfortunately acted the same.
Anyway, what I took from it and did again after just watching it, is the usual typicalness of humans from Earth never believing that aliens would be here to help us but to kill or destroy us. But it's one of the few alien tales TZ and Serling had a nice alien, nearly all had aliens being bad. Which is the only thing I didn't understand about Serling, considering he was so against prejudice. This is why I believe this was a story against prejudice. Not sure it was politically right to use a seemingly 'backward' Mexican setting. As citizens in the USA or anywhere in the world would have unfortunately acted the same.