Posted on 04/01/2015 7:08:57 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday dismissed all criticism of his new film "Killing Jesus," saying that the "secular-progressive left" was giving the film bad reviews because it challenged their anti-religious agenda.
"Any embrace of Christian tradition is a danger to the agenda of the left. It was easy to see that in the articles about 'Killing Jesus,'" he said.
O'Reilly went on to call a review in the "far-left" Guardian newspaper the most "idiotic thing I have ever read in my life." He also admonished the New York Times for directing readers to a critic who described the Gospels as "myths and legends."
"I mean really? How insulting is that?" he said.
“There is a struggle in this country for power, for freedom, and for life-affirming behavior,” O’Reilly said. “Judeo-Christian tradition is under assault – there’s no question about that," he said, adding that the same critics would never mock Islam.
O'Reilly declared himself proud of the film, which was based on his book of the same name, saying it the most-watched program ever on National Geographic.
He recently told CBS' "60 Minutes" that the Holy Spirit came to him in the middle of the night and "directed" him to write "Killing Jesus," making use of his gifts given to him by God.
"One night I just woke up and went, 'killing Jesus.' And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the Holy Spirit," O'Reilly said.
Despite O'Reilly's insistence that the words were divinely inspired, the title was very similar to his two previous books, "Killing Lincoln," and "Killing Kennedy," and the subsequent "Killing Patton."
Monday wasn't the first time O'Reilly had shown particular sensitivity about the film.
Earlier this month, CNN reporter Tom Kludt, formerly of TPM, was denied access to National Geographic's red carpet event for "Killing Jesus." According to Kludt, a channel publicist referred to his "recent coverage on Bill O'Reilly."
Business Insider brought this up to National Geographic's senior vice president of communications, who cited space constraints at the venue.
doh...jeeezzzz Bill where you’ve been?
Maybe casting a muslim as Jesus was the problem.
Specifically, casting a muslim who denies Christ was the Son of God, died for our sins, and was resurrected, but who tries to pretend islam and Christianity are one and the same was the problem.
Off-putting.
Also, BOR is a self-aggrandizer first and foremost. He writes, he talks, he makes movies merely as self-promotion. Turning a buck off the Lord reveals the fundamental falsity of this man.
Oh grow up Billy. Maybe it’s just a bad movie.
O’Reilly: My ‘Jesus’ Movie Gets Bad Reviews Because Of War On Christians
Because of O’Reilly’s war on Christians
Go easy on Bill, he says he at the Crucifixion, so I believe him.
What a blowhard. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. He thought he could please the left by taking God out of the story, and now that it didn’t work, he wants to don the mantle of “persecuted Christian”.
Nope, sorry Bill. You made your bed with the secularists, now you can lie down with them.
There is something to be said for that. Sort of like casting a draft-dodger as the lead in a biography of Audie Murphy.
On the other hand, casting a Christian to play the part would be difficult because he'd consider himself to be completely inadequate. And playing the part to be either disrespectful, or blasphemous, or terrifying , or all of the above.
Just open the Bible and read what He did for us. Don't need mimics acting out some puny screen-writer's imagination.
Maybe it’s the “Plan 9 From Outerspace” of Jesus movies.
This statement by the Leprechaun is in direct contradiction to what he told Beck recently. O’Reilly said his movie is completely secular, that it reveals the “real” reason Jesus was crucified, and that it has nothing to do with “religion.”
0’Pinhead...
just slouching along, as usual....
Planet WTF!
*****
The movie was terrible.
I am waiting for the sequel: Killing O’Reilly and Dugard by Jesus of Nazareth.
You have reality on your side. O’Reilly’s movie doesn’t tell the whole story of Chirst — the God side.
It’s being pan from Christian groups for being non-Christian. I saw some of it and it was laughable. Basically, Jesus is aimlessly walking around not quite sure of what’s going on and who he is and on top of that these people around him are pushing him into these situations. It’s a Life of Brian movie but just called him Jesus
“Go easy on Bill, he says he at the Crucifixion, so I believe him.”
True. Brian Williams saw him there.
“Life of Brian” was actually religious, in a typical British anti-humor sort of way.
No Bill its because you made stuff up as you went along from what I hear. And you are a terrible writer. I want my $25 back from the POS book I bought 15 years ago. It was so bad I couldn’t get through it.
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