Actor Rob Reiner’s propaganda documentary about Christian nationalism has reportedly bombed at the box office.
“‘God and Country’ is a bomb,” Catholic League president Bill Donohue revealed in a blog post published earlier this month. “It took in a whopping $38,415 in its first weekend—over four-days—playing in 85 theaters. As one movie critic put it, this means it averaged $451 per theater, a stunning achievement, even for the Meathead.”
Donohue is predictably thrilled that the anti-Christian propaganda documentary turned out to be a major failure.
It is time for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to award an Oscar for Best Performance of Religiophobia.https://t.co/PwLYodfNBW pic.twitter.com/u7ChvmLokO
— Catholic League (@CatholicLeague) March 10, 2024
Released last month, the propaganda documentary basically says that pro-American Christians are a menace to society.
“GOD and COUNTRY looks at the implications of Christian Nationalism and how it distorts not only our constitutional republic, but Christianity itself,” an IMBD description of the film reads.
“Featuring prominent Christian thought leaders, GOD and COUNTRY asks this question: What happens when a faith built on love, sacrifice, and forgiveness grows political tentacles, conflating power, money, and belief into hyper-nationalism?” the description continues.
Donohue’s own description of the film is more blunt and honest.
“Rob Reiner, more commonly known as ‘Meathead,’ released a movie last month that demonstrates the pervasiveness of religiophobia in Hollywood,” he wrote in his blog post. “’God and Country’ is about an alleged threat to American democracy posed by so-called Christian nationalists.”
“The Meathead would have the audience believe that we are on the verge of a theocratic takeover, though few outside of Hollywood and other secular subcultures pay any attention to this fable,” he added.
According to Donohue, the propaganda film is based on the work of Katherine Stewart, an anti-Christian loon who enjoys taking things out of context.
“In 2021, she cited as evidence that Christian nationalists are ‘running the country’ a quip by President Trump,” Donohue explained. “He [Trump] mentioned that the Covid crisis would wane by Easter. Because he didn’t say by ‘mid-April’—but instead dropped the nefarious ‘E-word’—this was all the proof this sage needed to declare this a Christian nationalist moment. I’m not making this up.”
No, he’s not. Stewart expressed her misinformed opinion in The New York Times:
Outrageous scapegoating of Evangelicals by the NYT. This by a paper that doesn’t believe babies in the womb are human beings, & thinks that a person can change sex through mental gymnastics or cosmetic surgery. Isn’t “Coronavirus Hell” the NYC Metro area?https://t.co/90PPHpDvB8
— Robert A. J. Gagnon (@RobertAJGagnon1) March 27, 2020
Donohue isn’t alone in his criticisms of the film. Jon Brown of the Christian Post has also slammed the film.
“The premise of the film is schizophrenic, demonizing Christians with inflammatory insinuations that invoke the Third Reich, while at the same time deriding them for having a persecution complex because they fear a growing cultural hostility,” he wrote in a post last month.
“By stringing together disjointed, out-of-context clips that lump together John MacArthur and Billy Graham with obvious charlatans and screeching fringe preachers, the filmmakers reveal either their profound ignorance or their cynical desire to assign the pejorative Christian nationalist label as widely as possible,” he added.
He further noted that all of the 18 so-called “expert talking heads” who were recruited to opine for the film were entirely unsympathetic toward Christianity.
According to Brown, one of the “experts,” Rob Boston, a senior adviser at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, at one point links basic Christian beliefs to this so-called Christian nationalism threat.
“Christian nationalists don’t like feminism, they want to roll that back,” Boston says in the film. “They are appalled at the idea of LGBTQ rights; they want to roll those back. They do not like legal abortion, they want to end that in all 50 states. They do not like the idea that we have a secular public school system.”
And?
Despite Endorsements from CNN & MSNBC, Rob Reiner’s far-left expose on Christian Nationalism, God & Country only grossed $60,464 worldwide
The documentary featured Russell Moore, former president of the ERLC. David French, Phil Vischer, Kristin Du Mez, and Jemar Tisby. pic.twitter.com/HkVAvysgkx
— Terri Green (@TerriGreenUSA) March 6, 2024
“Also rolled into the Christian nationalist movement are those who oppose Critical Race Theory and pornographic books in schools, as well as those Evangelicals who seek political change by mobilizing the electorate to vote for candidates who reflect their worldview,” Brown notes.
Meanwhile, John Nolte of Breitbart News described the film as “a naked act of fascism.”
“Even though the ideal Christian life is unquestionably the healthiest and most fulfilling life (whether or not you are a believer) — a life filled with fidelity to your spouse, devotion to your children, honesty, humility, service, hard work, and selflessness – demonic lunatics and bigots on the left like Reiner want us shunned and excommunicated simply for believing 1) in God and 2) that every country should focus on being the best country it can be and stop with this globalization nonsense,” he wrote.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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