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.
Thanks so much, Bill. Now I know why some of my movies got bad reviews! War on Christians!
What makes BR a real Christian, in your view?
I think I can guess which one you’d categorize Max von Sydow as
We do know that Paul had shaven his head once because he had taken a vow, and on his last trip to Jerusalem he was also asked by James to shave his head and be in charge of shaving other heads who had taken vows.
And it is not likely that he would wear his hair long in between times considering what he said about long hair on a man being a shame in 1 cor 11
And would he have said that if Jesus had long hair? I very much doubt it.
Oh well. not trying to make a national emergency out of it, that just happens.
And not trying to make an issue about hair length, it is just that the people making these type of movies don`t seem to care if they get anything half way right or not.
[[O’Reilly: My ‘Jesus’ Movie Gets Bad Reviews Because Of War On Christians]]
Your movie gets bad reviews because it is unbiblical and you know nothing about Christ
O’Reilly is the first to criticize those Christians who stand for traditional marriage, which is when I quit watching him years ago.
Bingo!!
BOR indeed "donates" much to charity.. For this he gets a generous tax deduction of his millions of dollars income ..AND more important in one of his "tips" he told us giving helps you get into heaven ...UMMMMM so lost
**BOR has stated from the very beginning that Killing Jesus was about the historical man, not the divine Son of Man.**
The divine Son of Man was the historical man. You can’t separate them.
Uh...no.
CHRISTIANS hated it.
But there are GOOD movies on the life of Christ,best one being the “Passion of the Christ”.
Now you’ve done it. Bill is going to call you a pinhead. LOL
I'm not a fan of Passion, mostly because the film's marketing fails to mention that it mixes the gospel accounts with the questionable "visions" of Anne Catherine Emmerich as recorded by Clemens Brentano. That said, it's leagues better than The Greatest Story Ever Told.
My personal preferences are Jesus, and The Gospel of John, largely due to their stringent faithfulness to the Gospels of Luke and John respectively.
Everyone has their favorite movies on Jesus.
Even I remember when the movie, “Passion of the Christ” came to the theaters, even those Christians who are Evangelical Christians went to see the movie as well as Catholic Christians.
It is...wifey, especially, had been really anticipating watching this - but within 15 minutes she was mumbling about how "this sucks"....
Ted Baxster is a pompous azz.
There are numerous video clips in it, and they look very well done.
http://www.nbc.com/ad-the-bible-continues
Ugh. I know. Don’t you hate that? You get really pumped for something with a Christian theme only to find out they do it SO badly.
Oh well. Even though it’s now campy as can be, I’m STILL looking forward to my yearly watching of the Ten Commandments this weekend!!
It’s on this week end? I love that movie! Do you know which channel?
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