What is the significance of the discussion of Jesus in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?

The
discussion of Jesus is significant for a few reasons. First, after praying aloud that Jesus keep
the Misfit from shooting a lady, the Misfit's response that only Jesus raises people from the
dead, and that he shouldn't have done that, seems to indicate that in the Misfit's head, the
Grandmother, like the rest of her family, was already dead. Her prayer isn't going to change his
decision to shoot her....