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Conservatives Adopt Cancel Culture Tactics Against ‘The Chosen’

Faith-based saga targeted after crew member displays Pride flag on set

Conservatives, by and large, are leading the fight against Cancel Culture.

Yes, some old-school liberals have joined the fracas, including Bill Maher, John Cleese and Rob Schneider.

It’s still overwhelmingly conservatives who lash out at modern-day struggle sessions for sharing the “wrong” views. That effort includes attacking the woke mind virus, a toxic movement akin to the Chinese cultural revolution of the 1960s.

The similarities are frightening.

Yet some conservatives are adopting Cancel Culture-like tactics in an effort to shame, if not outright Cancel, “The Chosen.”

The Angel Studios series follows the life and times of Jesus Christ, memorably played by Jonathan Roumie. The show, which recently wrapped its third season, is one of the most successful faith-based stories of the modern era.

Secular critics sing its praises, and it crossed over to the big screen, twice, with impressive results.

Recently, footage from the show’s set revealed a Pride flag on display. That set off a whirlwind of commentary and criticism. Some demand the show be “canceled,” even though the creative team behind the series isn’t promoting LGBTQ+ themes in any capacity.

Call it guilt by association in classic Cancel Culture style.

It’s even worse because a film or TV set should be a place where everyone is welcome. The person behind the flag helps bring “The Chosen” phenomena to the masses. Isn’t that what we should crave, where spiritual art is created without boundaries and a Hollywood-style production is open to everyone?

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Would the show’s critics recoil if a conservative Christian was outed on, say, “Ted Lasso” and the production team fired him or told him or her not to display their views on set in any capacity? 

They would, and should. How is this different?

“The Chosen” released a smart, carefully worded response to the kerfuffle.

That wasn’t enough for some.

Newsweek captured some of the anger against the show over the flag’s appearance. The Federalist weighed in against “The Chosen,” too.

For faithful Christians who are constantly assailed by radical LGBT propaganda every summer from every angle, “The Chosen’s” decision to defend the icon that brags of sins like sexual immorality and pride is a betrayal far bigger than “we’ll always let you down.”

One flag. One co-worker. One behind-the-scenes moment captured and shared on social media, all to cancel the series, either culturally or literally.

Sound familiar?

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Let’s move beyond the fact that so few shows offer a spiritual balm like “The Chosen,” or that the series represents the power of the people in ways that shame Hollywood. The series began with a crowdfunding extravaganza, revealing a consumer hunger ignored by Hollywood, Inc.

This kind of Cancel Culture attack captures the worst of the movement’s impulses, and it’s directed at a show the Right should be celebrating.

Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing attacked critics for attempting a “purity test” shakedown, shaming his own outlet for publicizing the matter.

“The Chosen” isn’t pushing a radical agenda. It’s allowing an employee the freedom to express his views, something that wasn’t meant for public consumption. Nor does the flag speak for the show or its creative mission.

It’s not targeting children, either.

Those massive differences should cut the Cancel Culture attacks short. They aren’t, though, and that could be more damaging than the usual woke mob’s tactics.

17 Comments

  1. Oh, because Jesus was all about loving everybody, right? Like in Luke:

    49 “I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning! 50 I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished. 51 Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other! 52 From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against—or two in favor and three against.

    53 ‘Father will be divided against son
    and son against father;
    mother against daughter
    and daughter against mother;
    and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law
    and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’[a]”

    You either bow before Christ and his rules or you bow before satan by default. What part of that don’t Christians get?

    1. Just to be more specific, it’s not a boycott, it’s people choosing to side with Christ. After Jesus forgave people from their sins, he said go and sin no more. He did not tolerate sin, he would forgive people for their sin, but they have to first admit it and then ask for forgiveness. You would think the producers of a Christian show would get this.

    2. Mat 9:10 KJV – And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
      Mat 9:11 KJV – And when the Pharisees saw [it], they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
      Mat 9:12 KJV – But when Jesus heard [that], he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
      Mat 9:13 KJV – But go ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

  2. Good column. As long as it isn’t in the show itself, who cares? Anyone who knows anything about the entertainment industry knows that most of the people who work in it lean left. If we’re going to cancel every production that has a leftist on it, there will be virtually nothing left, except maybe Kirk Cameron movies, and those suck.
    As long as they keep it out of the content, I don’t care what their political or social opinions are.

    1. Agreed. I think some are jumping on this because we’re used being aggressively hit over the head with it nonstop. This particular instance is no big deal. On the other hand, anyone disagreeing with “pride” in most places gets punished harshly.

  3. “It’s even worse because a film or TV set should be a place where everyone is welcome.”

    Everyone? So, pedophiles, kleptomaniacs, dudes on a sexual assault watchlist? Not everyone should be welcome everywhere. You can *say* the difference is that all my examples are likely high risk criminals, but I know you’re smart enough not to make that argument, because you know what comes next. But fine, for the sake of argument let’s grant that you can’t make a film these days without probably hiring a gay person here or there. OK. But unless you’re a public institution, you *can* control the work environment. Would Mr. Jenkins and the rest of the production team be saying the same thing if that were a Satanic flag, or an ISIS flag? How about a CCP flag?

    “The person behind the flag helps bring ‘The Chosen’ phenomena to the masses. Isn’t that what we should crave, where spiritual art is created without boundaries and a Hollywood-style production is open to everyone?”

    Non sequitur. The thing you say we should crave does *not* necessarily include “the person behind the flag”. Any number of people could probably do that person’s job, including other LGBT people, who wouldn’t try to either sabotage the show by putting a rainbow flag in a promotional shot, or proudly display the flag on set when they know the producers don’t want them to.

    And so we arrive at the real question: did Jenkins and the other Christian producers know this flag was displayed? Who in charge knew this was there but allowed it to stay? Did they have an internal discussion after this pic went out telling people NOT to do this anymore? Who approved the pic in the first place? These things don’t happen by accident, even on a “grassroots” film set.

    To be fair, I don’t think Jenkins and the others are pro-LGBT, though I think many of them will be way too afraid of making waves to say so. I think this flag is Satan working overtime to at least take his enemies down amidst the collapse of so many of his friends. But whatever the case, it now requires more than just a true statement from Jenkins; they need to fully address this issue. No one even needs to be fired; we are not, after all, pro-cancel culture against individuals. But it’s time for Jenkins, et. al. to show us what kind of Christians they really are.

  4. But this only goes one way. At the office today I got multiple emails celebrating pride, company logo changed to a pride flag, pride flags displayed prominently throughout. But, if I decided to wear a “straight pride” shirt, I’d be the one in trouble.
    I don’t like cancel culture one bit, but notice how the left uses it constantly and now that the right is testing the waters, we need to stop? We’ve been “turning the cheek” for way too long and gotten buried by it. Corporations used to have no fear insulting those on the right, now they are reconsidering.

  5. It’s just one person. It’s not the entire studio. Bud Light and Target, I can understand, but Angel Studios? No, it’s only just one person.

  6. The homosexual pride flag is a political symbol that exalts that lifestyle and embraces it. Throughout the long history of the Christian faith the homosexual lifestyle has been condemned as sinful, as destructive to the image and likeness of God in every man. This position is clearly supported in Scripture, in both the Old and New Testaments. Jesus, indeed, loved, accepted and ministered to sinners, but always with the admonition – ‘Go and sin no more’. It is not a question of whether a homosexual should be employed on the set of The Chosen – everyone on that set is a sinner, as am I. What is at issue is whether the symbol of the acceptance and the exaltation of that one particular sin should be prominently displayed on the set. I don’t believe it should be. I am awaiting Mr. Jenkins’ personal statement on the issue before I decide whether or not to continue my sponsorship of The Chosen. The Gospel was breached long before The Chosen came around, and it will continue to be long after it is gone.

  7. I agree with you, Christian. Though I don’t like seeing even that little rainbow flag, probably from one person, it is gross overkill to cancel the amazing series “The Chosen” because of this. People who are adamant to boycott or cancel it must have never been as emotionally moved and affected by the show as me. They should be grateful such a series exists.

    1. This is not a binary situation. It’s not A) Like the show and condone everything they do OR 2) Find some fault and cancel the whole thing.
      There’s a TON of middle ground where one can praise the good and condemn the bad. Jesus did this very thing.
      We should be able to point out that a mistake was made and the creators should be capable of admitting and correcting that mistake. As a christian show that is attempting to promote an accurate representation of Christ, a PRIDEful display of a sinful lifestyle should not be allowed. Yes, God can and does use sinners to fulfill his plan. He does not promote or condone the continuation of the sinful behavior.

  8. “Secular critics sing its praises,”

    If SECULAR CRITICS sing it’s praises THAT GUARANTEES A FAKE , FALSE, DEPICTION OF CHRIST. Period. Not surprising AT ALL from FAKE CHRISTIANS who don’t even understand their own religions stance on BAPTISM the single most fundamental thing to your faith outside of the actual reception of the Holy Ghost WHICH YOUR FAKE CNN NEWS “CHURCHES” DON’T EVEN TEACH HOW TO RECEIVE!!!

    PRO TIP: NOT ONE SINGLE BAPTISM OF THE MORE THAN 3000 BAPTISMS SHOWIN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS DONE USING THE CATHOLIC BAPTISMAL FORMULA (FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST)nor their “SPRINKLING” GARBAGE , baptism REQUIRES full immersion so much that in ACTS 8 GOD CAUSED A BODY OF WATER TO APPEAR IN THE DESERT SO THAT PHILIP COULD BAPTIZE QUEEN CANDACE’S OF ETHIOPIA’S TREASURER THE ETHIOPIAN ENUCH!!! SPRINKLING is a FAKE BAPTISM invented in the 2nd century by APOSTATES.. CHRISTIANS ARE ONLY BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST the ONLY NAME that can save you.
    Acts 2:38, Acts 4:12, Acts 10:44-48 , Acts 19: 1-6.

    Knowing that FALSE PROPHETS would come and CHANGE THE BAPTISM to that which CANNOT SAVE YOU, the bible was CAREFUL to tell you biblically illiterate folks THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE BAPTISM IN CHRIST’S CHURCH and they told you this AT A TIME WHEN ONLY ONE BAPTISM (IN JESUS NAME) WAS IN USE! But they knew the DRESS WEARERS WHO FORBID MEAT EATING ON FRIDAY and who FORBID PRIESTS AND NUNS FROM MARRYING would raise their evil child molesting heads! So with a “preemptive” strike they told you daft people this: FIRST they told you that the PEDOPHILES IN ROME got their “doctrine” FROM DEMONS, since ANY church that FORBIDS MARRIAGE (between Men and Women , priests , nuns) and which commands the abstention of MEATS (no meat on Friday) is EVIL.
    1 Timothy 4:1-4
    King James Version
    4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

    2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

    3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

    4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
    So they knew the DRESS WEARING PEDOPHILES WERE GOING TO COME and they WARNED YOU THAT THEY WOULD HAVE A FAKE BAPTISM BY WARNING YOU THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE BAPTISM IN CHRIST’S CHURCH LONG BEFORE THIS WARNING WAS EVEN NECESSARY!
    Ephesians 4:5
    King James Version
    5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
    It isn’t the bibles fault that you let some pedophile convince you that THERE ARE REALY THREE LORDS as opposed to ONE, multiple “denominations” instead of ONE FAITH and sprinkling instead of IMMERSION and a FAKE FORMULA instead of the ONE BAPTISM. you’ll DESERVE the hell you receive since all “”Christians” are COMMANDED TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD. 2
    Timothy 2:15
    Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

    Jesus said you MUST BE born of the SPIRIT , John 3:1-8, yet your PEDO POPE has never once told you HOW TO RECEIVE IT even though the BIBLE SHOWS THE APOSTLES AND DISCIPLES OF CHRIST RECEIVING IT! Jesus said it’ll go like this: Joh 3:8 a mysterious sound whose origin and destination are unknown, John 7:38-39 something coming up out of your stomach through your mouth. And finally the bible shows you people RECEIVING THE INDWELLING OF THE HOLY GHOST ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS with the evidence of SPEAKING IN TONGUS something the PEDO CHURCH ACTIVELY PREACHES AGAINST AND TELLS YOU IS “DEMONIC” ! ACTS 2:4, ACTS 10:44-48 , ACTS 19:1-6.
    HERE’S THE PROOF THAT THIS SHOW IS FAKE CHRISTIANITY BTW . If it were telling the TRUTH a “SECULAR CRITIC” would not be able to STAND IT.
    John 7:7
    The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

    I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THIS GAY FLAG CARRYING SHOW is NOT telling you that homosexuals should be KILLED which is LITERALLY THE SCRIPTURE!!! And which is LITERALLY what happened TO THEM during CHRIST’S LIFE AND MINISTRY! Lev 20:13!!!

    Matthew 10:22
    And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

    And finally IF THE TRUTH WERE SPOKEN , they would have no resort BUT TO HATE IT since it is WRITTEN that they would ! The only thing that would STOP THE HATE would be a FALSE VERSION of Christ.
    John 15:25
    But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

    1. “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:”
      ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28‬:‭19‬ ‭KJV‬‬

      The supposedly “Catholic” formula.

      As far as immersion being the only valid form of baptism, if you came upon a person dying in the street and they had a moment of clarity, asking you to baptize them before they die, would you drag them to the nearest pond or would you quick find a water bottle or something before it was too late to save their soul?

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