After making $9 million on the pornography-streaming site OnlyFans, Nala Ray told The Daily Wire host Michael Knowles that she&#8217;s found God and quit the biz.
Ray sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Knowles, who dug into her own past as the daughter of a pastor and how she initially got into pornography — and what finally made her decide to let it all go.
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&quot;$9 Million on OnlyFans &amp; God Saved Me&quot; | Michael &amp; Nala Ray <a href="https://t.co/kPP2eCm12Y">pic.twitter.com/kPP2eCm12Y</a>
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The former model detailed a series of losses — from losing her home in a tornado at a young age to going through her parents&#8217; divorce, all by age 11 — and how her family fundamentally changed when her parents remarried a few years later and her father became a pastor.
The years that followed were also tumultuous, as churches they were part of went through painful splits that she said were much like divorces on a grander scale. It wasn&#8217;t until she was old enough to get her first job — at a Hardees — that she said she finally felt like she had some autonomy.
The move into pornography, she explained, came as the result of an innate fascination with the human body and its beauty.
&#8220;I love the human body, I think it&#8217;s artwork,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;When I started this journey on OnlyFans, I was very pro — like — nudity. Because I love the human body, I think we&#8217;re beautiful, truly. I have a different form of that love now, for — it&#8217;s more I love what God created instead of just nudity.&#8221;
&#8220;What do you see as the distinction?&#8221; Knowles asked, and Nala&#8217;s response was immediate: &#8220;Perversion.&#8221;
Nala said that what ultimately brought her to Christ was the fact that she felt &#8220;numb&#8221; — and that she believed there had to be something more. &#8220;It was difficult for me to feel things. Like sadness, I felt like I had never cried. I could get angry, and my temper was probably a little worse than it should have been, but crying was not a big thing for me. I didn&#8217;t feel very emotional, I felt very numb to things.&#8221;
She went on to say that she wouldn&#8217;t take anything back — although she admitted she felt shame for the things she did while on the pornography platform – because it was what had &#8220;shaped&#8221; her and brought her to where she is today. And that, she said, might help her to reach young people who were thinking about joining the platform.
&#8220;I feel like my testimony is very strong now,&#8221; she explained, referencing Saul who had persecuted Christians before his Damascus road conversion. &#8220;He got radically changed on the road to Damascus, completely changed &#8230; and became a living, walking testimony to people who were just like him.&#8221;
&#8220;Why I say I wouldn&#8217;t take it back is because God could absolutely use me if I never would have gotten on OnlyFans. I don&#8217;t need to have that testimony to be able to reach people,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But if you were a young girl thinking about starting an OnlyFans and being influenced by this current generation to start an OnlyFans, would you listen to the person that&#8217;s never been on OnlyFans or never had any direct connection to it saying, &#8216;Don&#8217;t do it, don&#8217;t do it,&#8217; or would you listen to the person at the top of the hill who&#8217;s saying, &#8216;There&#8217;s a cliff after this&#8217;?&#8221;

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&#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; senior correspondent Desi Lydic mocked Jesus in her defense of the White House&#8217;s decision to move forward with recognizing the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-honors-trans-day-of-visibility-on-easter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Transgender Day of Visibility</a>&#8221; despite the fact that it coincided with Easter Sunday.
Lydic appeared to be arguing that because Christians believe in a triune God — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — they were essentially worshipping a being that embraced multiple identities and that was the same as embracing radical gender ideology.
Grabien founder Tom Elliott shared several clips on the subject, beginning with an MSNBC panel discussion claiming that &#8220;the Jesus [Christians] celebrate today would have been inclusive of the transgender community.&#8221;
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Comedy Central&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/DesiLydic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DesiLydic</a>: &quot;By total coincidence, Trans Visibility Day happened to fall on Easter this year. Which seemed like, I don’t know, a good fit to me. I mean, Jesus did identify as the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Live your truth, queen!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PER4YlN1cb">pic.twitter.com/PER4YlN1cb</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1775849064518537706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Elliott followed with a clip of Lydic addressing the topic: &#8220;By total coincidence, Trans Visibility Day happened to fall on Easter this year. Which seemed like, I don’t know, a good fit to me. I mean, Jesus did identify as the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Live your truth, queen!&#8221;
&#8220;Now, you wouldn&#8217;t think that Easter falling on a holiday that&#8217;s been March 31st for 15 years would be that big of a deal,&#8221; Lydic continued. &#8220;But conservatives processed this like a child meeting the Easter Bunny: by losing their f**king minds.&#8221;
A number of conservatives did criticize Biden for going ahead with Trans Visibility Day despite the fact that it fell on what is arguably the holiest day in the Christian calendar — particularly when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-blasted-for-proclaiming-trans-people-made-in-the-image-of-god-on-easter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went out of his way</a> to post several times on X in support of the trans community while his administration only mentioned the Easter holiday in passing.
&#8220;Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you. You are made in the image of God, and you&#8217;re worthy of respect and dignity,&#8221; one such post read.
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Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans:
I see you.
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&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1774511985700352189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Correctly saying trans people are made in the image of God while simultaneously celebrating these same people for altering God&#8217;s perfect &amp; intentional creation is 100% blasphemous. On EASTER nonetheless &#8230; &#8216;Be not deceived; God is not mocked,'&#8221; Riley Gaines posted in response.
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Correctly saying trans people are made in the image of God while simultaneously celebrating these same people for altering God&#39;s perfect &amp; intentional creation is 100% blasphemous. 
On EASTER nonetheless&#8230;
&quot;Be not deceived; God is not mocked&quot; <a href="https://t.co/2UaW63Sh3x">https://t.co/2UaW63Sh3x</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1774643561885003954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘Live Your Truth, Queen!’: ‘The Daily Show’ Mocks Jesus In Defense Of ‘Trans Day Of Visibility’

'Live Your Truth, Queen!': 'The Daily Show' Mocks Jesus In Defense Of 'Trans Day Of Visibility'

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As they&#8217;ve done for thousands of years, Christians celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Sunday. 
All over the world, the faithful gathered to celebrate the joyous news: that the Messiah died and rose from the grave, for the salvation of mankind. This is the central fact of our faith, and the reason why Easter is our most sacred holiday.
At the same time, a cult that was invented mere decades ago — and which opposes everything Christianity stands for — was holding its own observances on Sunday. In a deliberate attempt to mock the very idea of Easter, they celebrated something called the &#8220;Transgender Day Of Visibility.&#8221; Joe Biden, who claims to be a Catholic, ushered in the festivities with a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presidential proclamation</a> that can only be described as not only blasphemous, but also completely counterfactual. It&#8217;s not overstating things to say that this proclamation document underscores, once again, that the Biden administration is the single most radically anti-Christian regime in American history — and it&#8217;s not even close.
In the proclamation, Biden describes so-called &#8220;transgender Americans&#8221; as &#8220;part of the fabric of our Nation.&#8221; He accuses millions of Americans of being &#8220;hateful&#8221; for supporting laws that ban the castration, sterilization and mutilation of children, saying these Americans seek to &#8220;target and terrify transgender kids and their families.&#8221;
And he also claims that there&#8217;s an &#8220;epidemic of violence&#8221; against people identifying as transgender, without mentioning that this violence almost <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshShow/status/1727039849880830069" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusively</a> relates to domestic incidents, or prostitution and drug related crimes. He also failed to qualify this statement with the fact that trans-identified Americans are murdered at a lower rate than the general population.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1337-the-most-anti-christian-president-in-history-declares-easter-transgender-day-of-visibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
Of course, nowhere in &#8220;devout Catholic&#8221; Joe Biden&#8217;s proclamation is there an attempt to explain how the concept of transgenderism is compatible, in any way, with Catholicism. He does not grapple with how a Christian can ascribe to modern gender theory while also accepting what we are clearly told in the first chapter of genesis: “male and female created He them.” There is no way to grapple with this. These views are diametrically opposed. One can either believe in transgenderism or Christianity, not both. Just as one can either believe in transgenderism or biology, not both. On both counts, Biden chooses transgenderism. Coming from the same alleged Catholic who pushes the mass murder of the unborn, that&#8217;s not surprising.
This decision — to issue this blasphemous proclamation on Easter — was so unbelievable, so unprecedented in modern politics, that a lot of people wondered if it was real. When I saw it on social media, I had to check the White House website myself. And I found that indeed, it was real. And precisely because it&#8217;s real — because it&#8217;s easily verifiable and so damaging to the Biden administration at the same time — so-called &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; instinctively jumped into action to tell us not to believe our lying eyes.
There were many examples of this, so I&#8217;ll just pick one. Here&#8217;s the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/transgender-day-visibility-falls-annually-march-31-not-always-easter-2024-03-29/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> from Reuters: &#8220;Fact Check: Transgender Day of Visibility falls annually on March 31, not always at Easter.&#8221; And here&#8217;s the spin: &#8220;International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) takes place annually on March 31 to celebrate transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. It was not designed intentionally to fall on Easter Sunday as claimed by some online account. &#8230; TDOV has been celebrated on the same date, March 31, for years. The date of Easter changes each year.&#8221;
The point of &#8220;fact-checks&#8221; like this is to censor posts on social media platforms like Facebook by labeling information as misinformation. They do this not by debunking a claim, but rather by intentionally confusing the issue. We see this again and again. It&#8217;s like when PolitiFact said it was &#8220;false&#8221; to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/politifact-aoc-parking-lot-fact-check-mockery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> AOC was photographed crying in front of an empty parking lot, because in reality, it was an empty road. They know what people are reacting to. And instead of talking about that, they pick some phony misconception related to the episode, in order to rate it &#8220;false.&#8221;
The problem with this excuse, in this case, is that Joe Biden did not have to issue any proclamation recognizing the so-called &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility.&#8221; Even Barack Obama never did that, despite the fact that this holiday was invented a year after Obama took office. That is what people are responding to.
Of course, no president should recognize any &#8220;transgender day,&#8221; regardless of what date it falls on. But if you have any respect at all for the holiest day on the Christian calendar, you would at least skip the proclamation this year. That&#8217;s the point. Reuters knows that, and they dodge it on purpose. There was no need to issue this proclamation, except for the sole and express purpose of mocking Christians.
Secondly, it&#8217;s not like the Democrats just begrudgingly nodded towards Trans Day because they felt like they had to. This wasn’t a perfunctory checking of boxes. They went out of their way to celebrate the occasion. It wasn&#8217;t just some staffer in the White House who put out that proclamation with Joe Biden&#8217;s name on it — they all did it. And this went beyond the White House. Here’s Gavin Newsom&#8217;s Easter message, for example:
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BREAKING: CA Governor Gavin Newsom just released a touching Easter message. 
Just kidding. 
It&#39;s for Trans Day Of Visibility. <a href="https://t.co/maKOi0OXGb">pic.twitter.com/maKOi0OXGb</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1774569413611511878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s not necessarily the most important point to make here, but notice how Gavin Newsom’s wife claims that trans people have made many incredible contributions to human progress but then fails to cite one single specific example. She just says they&#8217;ve done a lot of great things, and moves on. But the truth is that trans-identified people have accomplished nothing of significance in this country, or any country. All they have done is contribute to massively increased rates of depression in the last decade, by encouraging young people to castrate and mutilate themselves instead of improving their mental health. They&#8217;ve also committed several acts of terrorism. But beyond that, they&#8217;re not doing anything of significance. Even if I was interested in celebrating the achievements of trans people — even if somehow I wanted to do this on Easter, of all days — I still would not be able to partake in that celebration for the simple reason that there are no achievements to celebrate.
But politicians throughout the Democratic Party, all over the country, pretended otherwise yesterday. In New York, Kathy Hochul <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/Transgender-Day-of-Visibility_2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> her own proclamation for Transgender Day of Visibility. It states that New York &#8220;reaffirm[s] our commitment to see beyond the gender binary and create equity.&#8221; 
For his part, the HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, put out <a href="https://x.com/SecBecerra/status/1774466699066024177?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this message</a>: 
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Today, I&#39;m thinking about our country’s great transgender, nonbinary, and two-spirit leaders who epitomize resilience, progress, and joy. Transgender Day of Visibility is an opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments and double down on our commitment to their wellbeing. <a href="https://t.co/BehdgWJZV8">pic.twitter.com/BehdgWJZV8</a>
&mdash; Secretary Xavier Becerra (@SecBecerra) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBecerra/status/1774466699066024177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He also added a picture of a bunch of people without faces, because that&#8217;s what equity means. No one has a face.
First of all, like Newsom&#8217;s wife, he doesn&#8217;t mention what &#8220;accomplishments&#8221; transgender people have achieved. That&#8217;s because there are no accomplishments to mention. On top of that, like the identity of &#8220;transgender,&#8221; so-called &#8220;non-binary&#8221; and &#8220;two-spirit&#8221; are nonsense labels that mean nothing. The two-spirit thing blew up in Canada a while ago, which is why Justin Trudeau goes around referring to &#8220;2SLGBTQIA+&#8221; people. But it&#8217;s not a real thing; it was <a href="https://lgbtqhealth.ca/community/two-spirit.php">invented</a> by some woman at a gay and lesbian conference in Canada in 1990.
There are other major problems with this statement, which again, is from our HHS secretary, who oversees health in this country. The biggest one, perhaps, is that you cannot tell us that trans people will kill themselves if you misgender them and then in the next breath insist that these people &#8220;epitomize resilience and joy.” If they really are a resilient, joyful people then we don’t have to worry about what kind of language we use around them. They can handle it, with resilience and joy.
But if we do have to worry about the words we use — worry, in fact, that the wrong word might cause them to commit suicide en masse — then there may be many terms you can use to describe them but “joyful” isn’t one of them, and “resilient” even less so. As for &#8220;doubling down on our commitment to their wellbeing,&#8221; as the HHS secretary claims to want to do, the only way to accomplish that is to tell them the truth and stop catering to their delusions.
But of course, most importantly, Sunday was Easter. Xavier Becerra, like all of us, should have spent the day thinking not about trans people, but about the lordship of Jesus Christ, and the state of his own immortal soul.
The same is true of Karine Jean-Pierre, who issued a <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1774203846023053330?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> about the &#8220;courage&#8221; of the trans community on Sunday. This is the same woman who claimed that &#8220;trans kids&#8221; are under attack in this country, just three days after a trans terrorist murdered men, women and children in a Christian school. 
But Karine Jean-Pierre never praised the courage of the police officers who put that trans terrorist down. She never mentioned their heroism. They do not need to be “visible,” apparently, like trans people do. They don’t have their own holiday, like the sacred Trans Day of Visibility. A holiday so apparently important, so engrained in our national tradition, that it must be officially recognized by the White House, no matter if it conflicts with Easter or not.
It could be interesting now to take a look at the person who started this fake holiday. It was invented by a man who identifies as a woman and now uses the name Rachel Crandall-Crocker. Here he is:
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This is the person who invented “Trans Day of Visibility.” He claims he knew since he was 8-years-old that he was trans. <a href="https://t.co/FQtsqig1D2">pic.twitter.com/FQtsqig1D2</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1774494901742575834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is the Left&#8217;s approximation of Jesus now. This man who believes that 8-year-olds can change their gender, is who they&#8217;re choosing to valorize. He achieved the incredible feat of starting a Facebook group back in 2009, which is where Trans Day of Visibility originates. Easter began with the son of God emerging gloriously from the tomb. Trans Day of Visibility began with a guy starting a Facebook group. I guess this is what passes for a great accomplishment in the trans community.
Another irony of this whole &#8220;trans day of visibility,&#8221; of course, is that trans people are already more visible than any other group in the history of the world, when you compare their population to the amount of media coverage, et cetera, that they receive. There has never been such a vast gulf between the attention paid to a group of people and the actual size of that group. LGBT people in general are celebrated with <a href="https://x.com/jarvis_best/status/1774115482255106479?s=20">dozens</a> of special days and months, just for them. 
We’ve gone over the full list several times in the past, so I’ll spare you. But we know, of course, that they have all of &#8220;Pride Month.&#8221; That&#8217;s 30 days right there. They have the Trans Day of Visibility, the Agender Pride Day, International Pronoun Day, National Coming Out Day, Transgender Parent Day, Trans Awareness Week, Omnisexual Visibility Day, Bisexual Visibility Day, Bisexual Awareness Week, International Non-Binary Day (which is also a week, for some reason), the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, the International Lesbian Visibility Day, as well as Gay Uncle Day in August. There&#8217;s many more. In all, I counted more than 130 days on the calendar reserved to worship our LGBT deities. There might be more but I gave up counting.
Government leaders make a point of recognizing most of these days. Meanwhile, Christianity — the faith that built this country, the faith that many of the most important, most accomplished, most significant human beings in the history of humanity belonged to — only has two holidays that someone like Joe Biden will even pretend to care about. And now one of those two has been overshadowed by one of the 130 LGBT days. It&#8217;s outrageous and disgusting, but also instructive. I&#8217;ve been saying for years that &#8220;LGBT&#8221; isn&#8217;t just a collection of sexual and gender identities. It&#8217;s our new state religion. And never has that been more clear than it is today.

Annual Easter Egg Roll Held On South Lawn Of The White House

The Most Anti-Christian President In History Declares Easter ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’

The Most Anti-Christian President In History Declares Easter 'Transgender Day Of Visibility'

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NBC featured a clip of winning Houston Texans’ quarterback CJ Stroud after his record-setting performance in the team’s 45-14 victory over the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the NFL playoffs — but they left out the beginning of his statement featuring Jesus Christ.
Stroud, who is a rookie, decimated the Browns&#8217; #1 defense in his performance, with a 76.1% completion rate, 276 passing yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions. At the age of 22, he became the youngest quarterback to ever win an NFL playoff game.
“CJ, your first playoff game and your first NFL season and a record setting performance for you. What does this moment mean?” NBC Sports sideline reporter Kathryn Tappen asked.
“First and foremost, I just want to give all glory and praise to my Lord, Jesus Christ,” Stroud began, adding, “I mean, it’s been amazing, being in this city as short as I’ve been, but the love that I’ve got; I really just be doing it for Houston, man. People back home, I’m blessed enough to be in the position I am and blessed enough to be playing at a high level right now and we got to just keep it going.”
But NBC elided the statement about Jesus Christ in its clip, as follows:
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CJ Stroud has a lot of love for his city ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/fZ4zFrcqWt">pic.twitter.com/fZ4zFrcqWt</a>
&mdash; Sunday Night Football on NBC (@SNFonNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SNFonNBC/status/1746336083799925089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Here’s the full statement:
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Nobody believed in CJ Stroud at the beginning of the season.
He just won the first round of playoffs.
“Give all glory and praise to my Lord Jesus Christ. I mean it’s been amazing being in the city for a short as I’ve been with the love of God.” <a href="https://t.co/Mved2SaN7h">pic.twitter.com/Mved2SaN7h</a>
&mdash; Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) <a href="https://twitter.com/GrahamAllen_1/status/1746580222667845656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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An 11-year-old Houston Texans superfan named Joseph Rodriguez had a “game day helmet&#8221; <a href="https://www.click2houston.com/sports/2024/01/17/unboxing-bliss-11-year-old-texans-super-fan-receives-incredible-gift-from-cj-stroud-watch-the-heartwarming-moment/">stolen</a> from his brother’s car. His mother went to the team store to buy a replica and met Stroud, who happened to be there. She told him the story, prompting him to take a photo with her and tell her “I’m sorry it happened to you.” Then he told the store clerk, “Don’t let her buy the helmet. I’m going to buy it for him.&#8221;

AFC Wild Card Playoffs – Cleveland Browns v Houston Texans

NBC Plays Clip Of Record-Setting NFL QB. They Cut Out Him Thanking Jesus Christ.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lil-nas-x">Lil Nas X</a> is facing backlash for an image promoting his newest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">single</a>, “J Christ,” which depicts the rapper being crucified on a cross.
The 24-year-old recording artist announced the song’s upcoming release on X with a still image and a GIF further promoting the song. &#8220;MY NEW SINGLE IS DEDICATED TO THE MAN WHO HAD THE GREATEST COMEBACK OF ALL TIME! J CHRIST JANUARY 12, 2024 00:00 EST BE THERE!&#8221; he wrote. 
Many commenters on the platform speculated the song would be a mockery of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity">Christian</a> faith and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jesus-christ">Jesus Christ</a>.
&#8220;Oh gee whiz I’m sure this won’t be as blasphemous as possible,&#8221; conservative author Rachel Wilson <a href="https://twitter.com/Rach4Patriarchy/status/1744436437347410220">replied</a> to the photo.
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Oh gee whiz I’m sure this won’t be as blasphemous as possible 😒 <a href="https://t.co/bJc23uqBUz">https://t.co/bJc23uqBUz</a>
&mdash; Rachel Wilson (@Rach4Patriarchy) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rach4Patriarchy/status/1744436437347410220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is demonic,&#8221; Christian rapper Bryson Gray <a href="https://twitter.com/RealBrysonGray/status/1744415022430740903">agreed</a>.
&#8220;Singer @LilNasX MOCKS Jesus in a teaser for his new single ‘J Christ’ as he appears in underwear and silver boots in a video clip posted to his X,” former transgender influencer Oli London <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1744453573239361984">wrote</a>. “The singer has previously courted outrage for promoting Satanic practices including selling sneakers containing human blood.&#8221;
Nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, made headlines in the past for including Satanic imagery in his music videos and selling Satan-themed sneakers. The rapper has since announced his switch to promoting Christianity. 
Many fans were confused in November 2023 when Hill released a music video of a worship song, <a href="https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1730039265890078987">asking</a> fans, “Y’all mind if I enter my Christian era?” 
When people asked in the comments if the rapper was just trolling everyone, Hill <a href="https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1730075611497205913">replied</a>, “making Christian (sic) music does not mean i can’t s*** d*** no more. the two are not mutually exclusive. i am allowed to get on my knees for multiple reasons.”
When fans called his latest song release sacrilegious, Lil Nas X once again insisted it wasn’t.
&#8220;[T]he crazy thing is nowhere in the picture is a mockery of jesus (sic). Jesus’s image is used throughout history in people’s art all over the world. I’m not making fun of sh**. yall just gotta stop trying to gatekeep a religion that was here before any of us were even born. Stfu,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1744405262025228674">wrote</a>.
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Later, Hill claimed he was accepted to a Christian college.
“I know twitter hates me right now but i want yall to know im literally about to go to college for biblical studies in the fall. Not everything is a troll! Anyways IM A STUDENT AGAIN! LETS GOOO,” the rapper <a href="https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1744865818125443325">wrote</a> alongside a photo of an acceptance letter to the evangelical Christian college Liberty University on Tuesday.
Community Notes added a disclaimer that the letter appeared to be signed by former university president Jerry Falwell, who died in 2007, meaning the letter was almost certainly not legitimate.

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‘Blasphemous’: Lil Nas X Blasted For Promoting New Song ‘J Christ’ With Image Of Rapper On A Cross

Lil Nas X Blasted For Promoting New Song 'J Christ' With Image Of Rapper On A Cross

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/martin-scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> claims that his new &#8220;film about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jesus-christ">Jesus</a>&#8221; will radically alter public opinion on organized religion.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">movie</a>, which is based on Japanese novelist Shūsaku Endō’s book “A Life of Jesus,” was announced last year and is scheduled to start filming later in 2024. The screenplay is reportedly finished, and the movie will have an estimated run time of 80 minutes.
Scorsese discussed his goals for the project during a Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2024-01-08/martin-scorsese-killers-of-the-flower-moon-new-jesus-film">profile</a> published Monday. “I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity">religion</a>,” Scorsese said of the film.
“Right now, ‘religion,’ you say that word and everyone is up in arms because it’s failed in so many ways,” the 81-year-old filmmaker continued. “You may reject it. But it might make a difference in how you live your life — even in rejecting it. Don’t dismiss it offhand.”
The outlet noted that Scorsese decided to make the movie after meeting with Pope Francis in May 2023. “I have responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus,” he said at the time.
Many moviegoers will recall that the Hollywood director has made a movie about Jesus before. His film “The Last Temptation of Christ,” was extremely controversial when it premiered in 1988.
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Eternal World Television Network founder Mother Angelica <a href="https://www.slashfilm.com/753575/the-last-temptation-of-christ-controversy-explained-how-martin-scorseses-passion-project-became-a-nightmare/">called</a> the movie &#8220;sacrilegious&#8221; for its storyline, which depicted Jesus as a mortal sinner like all other people in existence. One of the most infamous scenes shows Jesus (Willem Dafoe) fantasizing about having a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene.
The film includes a disclaimer saying it’s “not based on the Gospels, but upon the fictional exploration of the eternal spiritual conflict,&#8221; but that didn’t stop Christians from boycotting the movie.
The book Scorsese is using as his inspiration also approaches the topic of Jesus in an unconventional way. Endo <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_of_Jesus.html?id=xzJqjZaT1mwC">wrote the book</a> for Japanese people who would be more open to the “motherly side of Jesus” because fathers in his culture are seen as stern and harsh.

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Martin Scorsese Says His New ‘Film About Jesus’ Will Remove ‘Negative Onus’ From Organized Religion

Martin Scorsese Says His New 'Film About Jesus' Will Remove 'Negative Onus' From Organized Religion

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alexandria-ocasio-cortez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) faced criticism on Christmas for a distorted retelling of the birth of Jesus Christ and for trying to politicize the event by making false comparisons to the situation in modern day Israel.
&#8220;In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;He was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader&#8217;s power. Mary and Joseph, displaced by violence and forced to flee, became refugees in Egypt with a newborn waiting to one day return home.&#8221;
&#8220;Thousands of years later, right wing forces are violently occupying Bethlehem as similar stories unfold for today&#8217;s Palestinians, so much so that the Christian community in Bethlehem has cancelled this year&#8217;s Christmas Eve celebrations out of both safety and respect,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And yet, also today, holy children are still being born in a place of unspeakable violence &#8212; for every child born, of any identity and from any place, is sacred. Especially the children of Gaza.&#8221;
Nowhere in her post on Instagram did Ocasio-Cortez make any mention of Hamas&#8217; October 7 terrorist attack on Israel in which the Islamic terrorist group murdered 1,200 Israelis, wounded 5,300+, took more than 240 people hostage, and engaged in a sadistic campaign of rape against Israeli women and children.
&#8220;The entire story of Christmas and Christ himself is about standing with the poor and powerless, the marginalized and maligned, the refugees and immigrants, the outcast and misunderstood, without exception,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This high Christian holiday is about honoring the precious sanctity of a family that, if the story were to unfold today, would be Jewish Palestinians.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez was called out online over her remarks by a wide range of individuals.
&#8220;Nothing to see here&#8230; just a Democratic congresswoman with a large social media following openly hating on Jews in broad daylight,&#8221; said columnist Joe Concha.
Jacob N. Kornbluh, senior political reporter at The Forward, wrote: &#8220;AOC describes Israel as a ‘violent right wing occupying force’ in Christmas post. No mention of Hamas terror, the victims of Oct. 7 attack.&#8221;
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What <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> tells you: If the Christmas story were to happen today, Jesus’ family would be Jewish Palestinians.
What <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> doesn’t tell you: Jewish Palestinians don’t exist and Jews aren’t allowed to live in or even enter various parts of the Palestinian Territories. 
Merry…
&mdash; Jordyn (@JordynTilchen) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordynTilchen/status/1739349116449062928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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AOC Blasted For Attacking Israel In Explaining Her Version Of The ‘Story Of Christmas’

AOC Blasted For Attacking Israel In Explaining Her Version Of The 'Story Of Christmas'

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A far-left <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> priest faced backlash on Christmas for claiming that Jesus was a &#8220;Palestinian Jew&#8221; who was born into an &#8220;occupied&#8221; country as he tried to make comparisons from the time of Christ&#8217;s birth to modern day Israel.
&#8220;I think the message of Christmas is that God enters into it with us and we&#8217;re not alone in it,&#8221; Beck said. &#8220;What I&#8217;m so struck by is that the story of Christmas is about a Palestinian Jew &#8212; how often do you find those words put together? A Palestinian Jew born into a time when his country was occupied, right? They can&#8217;t find a place for her to even give birth, his mother. They&#8217;re homeless. They eventually have to flee as refugees into Egypt, no less. I mean, you can&#8217;t make up the parallels to our current world situation right now.&#8221;
&#8220;And so in some way, that is who we believe God becomes born into that situation and yet, that very man, Jesus, says love one another, love your enemies,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There is hope. There is light in the darkness. I&#8217;m attesting to that. So somehow that God enters that experience of suffering and that struggle and is actually born into it. That is what is so miraculous about this celebration for me.&#8221;
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WOW: &quot;The story of Christmas is about a Palestinian Jew&#8230; born into a time when his country was occupied.. have to flee as refugees&#8230;&quot; &#8211;<a href="https://twitter.com/FrEdwardBeck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FrEdwardBeck</a>, who is now a full-time activist trying to push Christians into Palestinian nationalism &amp; erase Jewish history. <a href="https://t.co/MU5m2azHih">pic.twitter.com/MU5m2azHih</a>
&mdash; Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1739337002967879722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Beck&#8217;s remarks faced significant pushback online from commentators who noted what he said was factually false.
&#8220;This is embarrassingly wrong,&#8221; responded New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz.
Radio host Erick Erickson responded, &#8220;How can the press signal itself not really connected to the people? Put on commentary like this. Palestine was not even a creation of the Roman Empire at the time of Christ’s birth. Pushing a political agenda like this, using Christ, reflects poorly on the network.&#8221;
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, responded: &#8220;Because you know how in Matthew 15:24 Jesus said, &#8216;I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel,&#8217; by Israel Jesus meant Palestine. Father Beck has to stop watching Al-Jazeera and start reading the New Testament.&#8221;
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International human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky wrote: &#8220;I think @FrEdwardBeck may have missed his Theology 101 class! This is embarrassing on any day, let alone #Christmas, as he’s on CNN.&#8221;

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CNN Priest Slammed For Claiming Jesus Was A ‘Palestinian Jew’ Born Into An ‘Occupied’ Country

CNN Priest Slammed For Claiming Jesus Was A 'Palestinian Jew' Born Into An 'Occupied' Country

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Italian lawmakers are introducing legislation which would discipline teachers who ban Christian Nativity scenes from classrooms in the name of cultural sensitivity. 
The bill was introduced by senators from the Brothers of Italy party, of which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is a member. The lawmakers said that it was necessary to preserve Italy’s cultural roots and to protect Christians from being discriminated against. 
“For some years there have been embarrassing and unacceptable decisions by some schools to ban nativity scenes, or to turn Christmas into an improbable winter festival to avoid giving offence to practitioners of other religions,” said Senator Lavinia Mennuni, who introduced the legislation.
Mennuni added that she didn’t want recognition of the Nativity to just become part of a generic holiday celebration, but to allow its celebration to remain distinct.
“Allowing the transformation of sacred Christian festivities into another anonymous type of celebration would constitute discrimination against the students and their respective families practicing the majority religion,” she said. 
The Brothers of Italy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/21/italys-ruling-party-drafts-law-to-safeguard-school-nativity-scenes">said</a> that the legislation “is absolutely essential to safeguard and protect [Italy’s] cultural roots, which are exemplified by the nativity scene.&#8221; Nativity scenes celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and frequently depict him lying in a manger surrounded by Mary and Joseph. 
The bill would discipline teachers who ban Nativity displays, saying that those measures are “an attack on the deepest values and traditions of our people.” 
The legislation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/21/italys-ruling-party-drafts-law-to-safeguard-school-nativity-scenes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticizes</a> the decision of some schools to make Christmas celebrations more generic, saying that, “a festival devoid of any historical and cultural commemorative context pertaining to our nation and which, lacking any ethical content, is destined to assume a purely hedonistic-consumeristic connotation.&#8221;
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Meloni, elected prime minister in 2022, frequently speaks openly about her Christian faith. “I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian. No one will take that away from me,” she said in 2019.
The legislation was criticized by Left-wing Italian parties and Italian teachers’ associations. 
“Anything related to the culture of a country and its religion cannot be imposed by law,” <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/39883d0f-29c7-41be-b48f-a041619d0a0c?shareToken=3313143ea005faae31d87967d56ce608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Antonello Giannelli, of the Italian association of head teachers.
“This is the same right wing, led by Giorgia Meloni, for whom today, the holy family fleeing from persecution would probably end up in a detention center,” said Riccardo Magi, head of the Left-wing Piu Europa party.

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Archaeologists in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerusalem</a> have reportedly unearthed steps descending into the Pool of Siloam, where Biblical records show Jesus Christ healed a blind man over 2,000 years ago at one of the most significant heritage sites in the world.
&#8220;It&#8217;s exciting to be a part of a story that&#8217;s bigger than ourselves — to be a part of bringing a story to life that has significance not for millions, but for billions,&#8221; Ze&#8217;ev Orenstein, director of international affairs for the City of David Foundation, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6336698717112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News Digital.
The discovery comes amid an excavation project in the ancient city of the Middle East carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority, and the City of David Foundation, which works to preserve and develop the city and its environs by connecting people through different faiths and backgrounds in Jerusalem.
Construction crews and archaeologists began working on an excavation project at the historic site of Biblical Jerusalem in 2004 after a large water pipe south of Jerusalem&#8217;s Temple Mount, at the southern end of the ridge known as the City of David, burst, according to the Biblical Archaeology Society.
In recent weeks, however, archaeologists discovered a set of eight steps at the project site — about the size of two Olympic swimming pools — dating back to the days when Jesus and millions of others used the pool as an ancient ritual bath.
According to the <a href="https://www.bible.com/bible/114/JHN.9.6-10.NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gospel of John</a>, the story of Jesus and the blind man at the pool began when Jesus and His disciples encountered a man who had been blind since birth. The disciples asked Jesus if the man or his parents caused him to be born blind. Jesus answered that neither caused his disability, but rather, the man had been born blind so that God&#8217;s work might be revealed in him.
&#8220;We must do the work of him who sent me while day lasts; night is coming when no man can work,&#8221; Jesus said. &#8220;While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.&#8221;
Jesus then put clay made from the ground and his saliva over the blind man&#8217;s eyes and said to him, &#8220;Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam.&#8221;
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The blind man went to the pool, washed the clay from his eyes, and returned with his vision restored.
Construction of the pool reportedly began more than 2,700 years ago when Judean King Hezekiah first ordered the digging of a 1,750-foot tunnel under the City of David to bring water from the Gihon Spring, which lay outside the city wall, inside the city to a pool on the opposite side of the ridge, according to the <a href="https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-sites/the-siloam-pool-where-jesus-healed-the-blind-man/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biblical Archaeology Society</a>.
Hezekiah foresaw the likelihood of a looming attack from the Assyrians and presumed the water supply would help the Judeans survive. The tunnel continued to carry fresh water into the part of Jerusalem that would lead to the construction of several different pools, including the Second Temple pool that Jesus knew.
More than 2,000 years later, the biblical site revered by Christians and Jews worldwide marvels at the discovery.
&#8220;The ongoing excavations within the City of David — the historic site of Biblical Jerusalem — particularly of the Pool of Siloam and the Pilgrimage Road, serve as one of the greatest affirmations of that heritage and the millennia-old bond Jews and Christians have with Jerusalem,&#8221; Orenstein said.
The site, which runs from the Pool of Siloam in the south along the Pilgrimage Road and up to the footsteps of the Western Wall, Southern Steps, and Temple Mount, represents the most significant half-mile on the planet, he added.
&#8220;There is no half mile that means more to more people that affirms Jerusalem&#8217;s biblical heritage not simply as a matter of faith, but as a matter of fact,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;And obviously living in a time where so much of biblical heritage is being questioned — to be able to be unearthing all of this historical heritage and antiquity that shows that whether for Jews or Christians, that you could see it, you could touch it, you could walk on it, that really our heritage in Jerusalem going back thousands of years, not simply a matter of faith, but a matter of fact, being unearthed here in the city of David,&#8221; he added.
In January, Rev. Johnnie Moore, president of the Congress of Christian Leaders, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/steps-where-jesus-walked-and-healed-a-blind-man-unearthed-for-first-time-in-2000-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News Digital, &#8220;In the Pool of Siloam, we find evidence of history preserved for us, revealed at just the right time.&#8221;
&#8220;Theologically, it affirms scripture, geographically it affirms scripture, and politically, it affirms Israel&#8217;s unquestionable and unrivaled link to Jerusalem. Some discoveries are theoretical,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This one is an undeniable. It is proof of the story of the Bible and of its people, Israel.&#8221;
Visitors have accessed a small section of the pool previously excavated, but the City of David plans to open the entire historic site once crews complete the project.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a big responsibility. And it&#8217;s also a big privilege, and the best is truly yet to come,&#8221; Orenstein said.

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Steps Descending Into 2,000 Year Old Biblical Site Where Jesus Healed A Blind Man Unearthed By Archaeologists: Report

Archaeologists Unearth 2,000 Year Old Biblical Site Where Jesus Healed A Blind Man: Report

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An archbishop in the Church of England said the opening of the “Lord’s Prayer” is considered “problematic” to some people because the 2,000-year-old prayer starts by addressing God as “Our Father.”
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell told the General Synod, the legislating and ruling body of the Church of England, that referring to God as “father” might be offensive to some people because of the negative connotations of patriarchy. 
“I know the word ‘father’ is problematic for those whose experience of earthly fathers has been destructive and abusive, and for all of us who have labored rather too much from an oppressively patriarchal grip on life,” Cottrell <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/07/lords-prayer-our-father-opening-may-be-problematic-archbishop-of-york-stephen-cottrell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, according to The Guardian.
Cottrell was referring to the prayer that Jesus Christ taught his disciples in Matthew 6:9–13 and Luke 11:2–4.
Conservatives within the church took issue with Cottrell’s words, while liberals supported the sentiments expressed by the archbishop. 
“Is the archbishop of York saying Jesus was wrong, or that Jesus was not pastorally aware? It seems to be emblematic of the approach of some church leaders to take their cues from culture rather than scripture,” said Dr. Chris Sugden, a church official and chair of Anglican Mainstream, a conservative organization within the church. 
Calvin Robinson, a conservative commentator and deacon in the Free Church of England, <a href="https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1677402650185195521" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also critiqued</a> Cottrell’s comments.
“We call it the &#8216;Lord’s Prayer&#8217; because it is the prayer the Lord gave us. He taught us to pray it. We call God &#8216;Our Father&#8217; because that is how he instructed us to address him. Is the Archbishop saying Christ was wrong? That God made a mistake?” Robinson said on Twitter. 
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Currently, the Church of England <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/church-england-explores-gender-neutral-god-rcna69851#:~:text=“Christians%20have%20recognized%20since%20ancient,spokesperson%20for%20the%20Church%20said.&amp;text=The%20Church%20of%20England%20will,plans%20to%20abolish%20current%20services." target="_blank" rel="noopener">is looking</a> at using “gender-neutral” pronouns for God, instead of the masculine pronouns used in the Bible. 
“Christians have recognized since ancient times that God is neither male nor female,” a spokesperson for the church said in February. “Yet the variety of ways of addressing and describing God found in scripture has not always been reflected in our worship.”
The Bible refers to God using masculine pronouns throughout both the Old and New Testaments. Jesus, who <a href="https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-can-jesus-be-god-and-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christians believe</a> to be fully human and fully God, came to Earth in bodily form as a man, and Christians believe that he still has a physical body.

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Anglican Leader Says Opening Of Lord’s Prayer Is ‘Problematic’ For Some

Anglican Leader Says Opening Of Lord's Prayer Is 'Problematic' For Some

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Legendary director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/martin-scorsese">Martin Scorcese</a> met with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pope-francis">Pope Francis</a> during a tour of Italy after Cannes and announced he’ll be making a Jesus-focused film.
“I have responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus,” Scorsese said Saturday during a Rome conference at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/catholicism">Vatican</a>, per multiple reports including <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/global/martin-scorsese-pope-francis-film-about-jesus-1235627620/">Variety</a>. “And I’m about to start making it,” the director said. Insiders believe this may be Scorcese&#8217;s next project.
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Thank you to Martin <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Scorsese?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Scorsese</a> for accepting the invitation to join us of La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown University &#8211; along with his wife and daughter &#8211; in the meeting of 40 poets and writers from different Countries with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PopeFrancesco?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PopeFrancesco</a>, who said among other things, &quot;This is… <a href="https://t.co/yG6bEyo2Wq">pic.twitter.com/yG6bEyo2Wq</a>
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The 80-year-old Hollywood icon also had a private meeting with Pope Francis prior to attending “The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination,” a conference organized by the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown University.
Editor of La Civiltà Cattolica Antonio Spadaro said on the publication’s website that Scorsese talked about “How the Holy Father’s appeal ‘to let us see Jesus’ moved him.” Scorcese reportedly expressed his appreciation for previous works, including “The Gospel According to St. Matthew.” 
During the conversation, the director also discussed his controversial 1988 drama “The Last Temptation of Christ” and of “the subsequent step in his research on the figure of Jesus.”
The movie was extremely controversial when it was released as it broke from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity">Gospel narratives</a> and depicted Jesus as fantasizing about married life with Mary Magdalene, including a scene fantasizing about the consummation of their relationship. 
Prominent Catholic nun Mother Angelica, founder of Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), <a href="https://meaww.com/martin-scorsese-announces-new-jesus-movie-but-his-last-biblical-epic-didnt-go-down-too-well-as-it-sparked-major-controversy-globally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called the movie</a> &#8220;the most blasphemous ridicule of the Eucharist that&#8217;s ever been perpetrated in this world&#8221; and &#8220;a holocaust movie that has the power to destroy souls eternally.&#8221; 
“The Last Temptation” received multiple accolades, including nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director and two Golden Globe nominations. It earned more than $33 million worldwide, but has been banned or censored in several countries. 
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Hollywood has approached the topic of religion in a more conventional way, however, and generated profits while doing so. Mel Gibson’s famous “The Passion of the Christ” (2004), which primarily covers the 12 hours leading up to Christ’s crucifixion, is the highest-grossing R-rated movie domestically, earning $370.8 million. 
A sequel based on Jesus’s resurrection has been rumored for years and is reportedly set to start filming in mid-2023.

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Martin Scorsese Meets Pope Francis, Says He’s Working On Film About Jesus: Reports

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