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Catholic League Blasts ‘Meathead’ Rob Reiner for ‘Religiophobia’

Catholic League President Bill Donahue accused Hollywood director and actor Rob Reiner of bigoted attacks on American Christians.

Last month, Reiner released a film titled god and country Dr. Donahue spoke of the “perceived threat to American democracy by so-called Christian nationalists.” Note.

“Meathead [Reiner’s nickname on the 1970s TV series All in the Family] “It would lead audiences to believe that we are on the brink of a theocratic takeover,” Donahue writes, “but outside of Hollywood and other secular subcultures, this allegory should be noted. Very few people pay.”

Donahue added that the film is based on the work of Katherine Stewart, who “has a deep fear of Christianity,” but above all else “demonstrates the pervasiveness of religious phobia in Hollywood.”

The move received rave reviews from: hollywood reporterHe warned that Christian nationalism “bears unfortunate parallels with the rise of Nazi Germany.”

Reiner’s film “offers an uplifting introduction to the rise of a political movement that should be thoroughly frightening to the majority of American adults who do not embrace it,” the newspaper reported. declared.

According to Reiner, Christian nationalism “seeks to make us a Christian nation,” Donahue wrote, and although the Founding Fathers refused to establish a Christian nation, they are “a nation inspired by Christianity.” He added that this was a big difference.

Fortunately, god and country Donahue observes that “” was a box office success, grossing just $38,415 in its first four-day weekend in 85 theaters.

As Breitbart News reported, stoking fears of a fabricated Christian nationalist insurrection is not limited to Hollywood bigots with an anti-Christian chip on their backs.

Politico national investigative correspondent Heidi Przybyla recently warned that Christian nationalists are dangerous because they believe human rights come from God, not government.

Appearing on MSNBC program all inPrzybyla said Christian nationalists “have a lot of power around Trump.”

The only thing that unites all Christian nationalists, she continued, is the belief that “our rights as Americans and as all human beings do not come from any earthly authority.” . They don’t come from Congress. They don’t come to the Supreme Court. They are from God. ”

In response, Catholic Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona Rochester, who famously wrote that human beings are “endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights,” argued that it was a Christian nationalist “weirdo.” ”, but Thomas Jefferson.

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