Rob Reiner, the Hollywood producer best known for his role in “All in the Family,” is releasing a documentary on “Christian nationalism.” The film tells gullible liberals that their Christian neighbors and elected politicians are crazy, racist and violent, and want to rule and reign over them in the name of God.
“Christian Nationalism” is “Christian Fundamentalist” 2.0Billy Davis, AFN.net Just in time for the 2024 presidential election, a left-wing documentary warning of the rise of “Christian nationalism” will be released in February by liberal producer Rob Reiner. So, what is Christian nationalism? According to Daily Wire journalist Megan Basham, citing an interview with Reiner in Deadspin, the Hollywood producer did not define it. Instead, he gave examples of “Christian nationalism,” such as right-wing justices serving on the U.S. Supreme Court. A second example is that of the court which annuls Roe v. Wadesaid Reiner, a strong supporter of abortion. Christian apologist Alex McFarland told AFN that the term “Christian nationalist” is a derogatory term intended to “marginalize and demonize” Democrats’ political opponents. He compares it to the term “fundamentalist” coined by the left in the 1980s to describe Christian conservatives. After studying the opinions of Reiner and others featured in the documentary, Basham similarly concludes that they “want to shame Jesus’ followers into taking part in the same political activities as their secular counterparts and convince everyone that there is something uniquely insidious when they do it. » |
“Christian nationalism is not only a danger to our country, it is a danger to Christianity itself,” Reiner said, describing the documentary, on X, formerly Twitter.
To help pursue this charge, Reiner enlisted the help of David French, the former editor of the National Review, and former Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore.
“Christian nationalism uses Christianity as a means to an end,” Moore warns in the documentary’s trailer. “This ending is a form of authoritarianism.”
The two-minute trailer doesn’t say how the documentary argues this view or whether Moore, now editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, actually accuses his Christian co-religionists of being wannabe tyrants in the documentary.
Reacting to the trailer’s premise, Christian apologist Alex McFarland no one should be surprised that a liberal activist like Reiner opposes religious faith influencing government and culture.
“But some of the voices that want Christianity removed from public influence come from the Church,” he says, referring to French and Moore’s appearance in the documentary.
In a second clip from the trailer, French appears to complain that the Church is causing division by not confronting culture.
“We should be setting a countercultural example,” French says of the Church, “and instead we are leading the charge in wickedness and division.” »
What French means by that isn’t explained in the trailer either, leaving this quote begging for clarification. After all, the Church would likely cause “wickedness and division” if it presented itself as an example of counterculture on hot-button issues like homosexuality and abortion.
McFarland is not a fan of French, and he currently writes opinion columns for the evangelical-hating New York Times, but McFarland reserves most of his frustration for Moore. Moore, who equates patriotism with racism and fascism in the trailer, once headed the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which blends faith, politics and culture.
“People like Russell Moore,” McFarland said, “are useless to the country and to the cause of the Gospel. »
