We live in an era where liberals and progressives are intent on demoralizing, demeaning, and denouncing “deplorable” Conservatives and Christians and everything we stand for and believe. They’re trying to shame us, scare us, and silence us.
Vine’s definition of ashamed: “A strong feeling of shame preventing a person from doing something.”
Their attempts to stop us are straight from Satan’s evil and demonic playbook as is Universal Pictures movie “The Hunt,” which was scheduled for release September 27. Even though they originally “temporarily paused” the marketing campaign after the El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy shootings, Universal remained determined to still release the movie that glorified shooting innocent people!!!
If you haven’t heard about The Hunt, a group of rich liberal elites jet to a resort to hunt down kidnapped conservative “deplorables” and kill them. Yes, you read that right, humans killing humans for sport because of their political differences.
But many of us pushed backed. We didn’t stay silent. We went to sites like the American Family Action website to sign a petition to stop this movie, and we shared the site with our friends and family on social media! And we prayed, hard!
I love the name of this group AFA because they’re not just lamenting the unfairness and evil in our world today, their very name says they’re action oriented. Doing something to protect the American family and thus our culture, and so should we.
Everyone who took action to voice an objection to The Hunt made a difference! We would not be silenced. As I’m writing this blog on Saturday 8/10/19, Universal has canceled the release of The Hunt “in the wake of significant backlash.” Ya think?!
[Tweet “Those of us who protested The Hunt made a difference! We would not be silenced.”]
Yet here is part of the statement from Universal Pictures: “We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.”
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What kind of a twisted mind would even create such an evil movie in the first place, justify it as “satire,” and think there was EVER a good time to release it?! Maybe the same kind of mind that held up a picture of the severed head of our president and called it humor.
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As Christians, if God wants us to do something and the Holy Spirit prompts us—regardless of how “politically incorrect” or unpopular it might be, we need to stand together against the pressure of this world to shame us, intimidate us, and silence us. No matter how many names they call us, laws they pass to quiet us, encourage others to harass us, make movies to scare us, or how unpopular we become personally—our job is to speak out, stand up, and defend good vs evil. Moral vs immoral. Right vs wrong! And we won’t back down.
The shocking plot of this movie revealed to the world the underlying intent of Hollywood and the liberal left: eliminate the voice of “Deplorables.”
Even if you didn’t have the opportunity to speak out against this movie, there will certainly be more opportunities in the future and there are plenty of abhorrent issues right now.
[Tweet “I didn’t hear one Democrat presidential hopeful that denounce The Hunt. Or a Democrat Congressman or Senator take a stand against it.”]
I didn’t hear of one Democrat presidential hopeful that denounced this movie. I didn’t hear a Democrat Congressman or Senator take a stand against it. Did you? If so, please let me know. While they’re stumping against gun control and violence, they’re silent on a violent movie that uses guns to kill constituents who wouldn’t vote for them.
Franklin Graham summarized it well in his Facebook and Twitter posts:
“Universal Pictures is now cancelling the release of “The Hunt,” a movie that was scheduled to come out next month which portrayed Democrats hunting down “deplorables,” referencing Hillary Clinton’s 2016 term for Donald J. Trump supporters. That’s good news. But the very development and filming of this movie shows just how sick the liberal left in Hollywood are. That they would spend money to make such a violent, politically-charged film like this, considering the state our country is in, is inconceivable. To even plant the thought in someone’s mind that it’s okay to shoot a person because they wear a MAGA hat or hold conservative viewpoints that might be different than theirs is reckless and reprehensible. That’s not satire or entertainment—that’s sowing seeds of discord & violence.”
I would add . . .
It’s not “creative.” It’s corruptive.
It’s not “satire.” It’s satanic.
We will not be silenced!
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face. Job 23:17
I have told all your people about your justice. I have not been afraid to speak out, as you, O Lord, well know. Psalm 40:9 NLT
Just a reminder that my new book Everyday Brave: Living Courageously as a Woman of Faith is now available for preorder. As you probably surmised, there’s a Brave Believer chapter.
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I am a “deplorable”; and I pretty much agree with everything you’ve said. That said, if this “Hunt” film were released mid-2020, might not the disgust it raises in the minds of right-thinking Americans cause a backlash against the “progressives” and result in landslide victories for conservatives? I don’t know, but it could.
Eric, I was thinking the same thing and had it released, I’m sure that could have happened. But like I said in the article, it got enough publicity I hope to reveal the progressives motives. Also it could have been so dangerous for some off balance person to think it was now OK to start shooting us.
Amen, Janet. Thanks for calling attention to the fact that Christians need to be ACTIVE and DO something. The devil wants to gag us all and we need to stand up and say BOLDLY, “I WILL NOT BE SILENCED, I WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED. Bless you 😍
Exactly. If you get a chance to look at my past blogs, you’ll see that is the message God has given me to share for such a time as this. It’s not longer just “politics” today, it’s a spiritual battle!