this will make you roll your eyes and you know what perhaps that's what you can always expect from The View because this next clip about actor Jonathan Romy who portrays Jesus Christ in the chosen was the most frustrating display of the show's host twisting Jesus's portrayal in the series as some kind of modern social justice Warrior just take a look for yourself at what they said as well as the segment from the series they chose to play because there's so much more I need to tell you about obsession with what is clean and unclean was
farther than God intended and does no good for anybody but yourself we tithe everything so the poor can benefit down to the smallest plants grown in our Gardens and to that I say woe to you Pharisees you tithe mint and Dill and cumin measuring carefully the last Speck while neglecting what is actually important of the law Justice and mercy and faithfulness you blind guides straining out an act while swallowing a camel look at these people what have you done to help them please welcome johnon [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] roomy hi hi guys wow
I feel like I should bless myself like I feel like doing this some water here he's got some water the water if you want I got some water right here you were just saying at least you're not a blonde blueeyed Jesus finally what that's what Joy bear chose to lead with for what reason even for a story as great as this gets reduced to Petty culture wars when you're on The View let me give you a broader perspective anyone that understands the anthropological history of the Middle East 2,000 years ago as well as Christian theology
itself knows the physical characteristics and appearance of Jesus Christ have always been a matter of contention and debate for instance that Jesus necessarily had brown hair or eyes is also as little rooted and verifiable fact as the idea that he had other physical traits and here's the historical reason for that the Bible does not have a detailed description of what Jesus Christ looked like and the second commandment forbids making graven images of him to avoid people worshipping God through an idol that means that for hundreds of years after his life we don't find Reliable pictures
portraits or statues of him that could point to the specific details of what Jesus Christ actually looked like now well it may be true that Jesus had dark hair and dark is given the people that he came from no one can say it with complete conviction especially when you're speaking about someone with such religious and historical significance but the truth is this criticism is only a layer deep the you had other bad takes that I need to pick apart because they're reading of the Jesus story through the lens of a modern left just leaves a
bad taste to begin with take a look at what Sunny htin had said I think what was fascinating to me is growing up I always saw the blond hair blue eye Jesus right and now I go to a black Catholic church and Jesus is is brown yeah um and and and I think you it seems that you took such great pains to do that in in this and to portray him as he probably likely was since this was the Middle East right most people don't know that and he's also Jewish um so the show explores
that uh the way Judaism is woven into the story in such a beautiful way your cast is extremely diverse was that important to you and to your director Dallas Jenkins when this was coming together was that intentional yeah absolutely so so Dallas is the creator of the show we have two other writers in addition to Dallas and they wanted to to bring to the screen the most authentic portrayal of Jesus and his disciples and this story and its roots and its jewishness and the diversity of the people and the colors and everybody that would have
lived in these next to these seafaring towns they were port cities did I hear this correctly a diverse cast maybe she needs to make her mind up about whether we need historical accuracy or whether some Modern notion of diversity is more important we're literally talking about the Middle East of 2,000 years ago and while it's understandable for someone to want to adapt old stories to new audiences it doesn't mean mangling and twisting The Greatest Story Ever Told into some Modern race tinted social justice lens that's not what Jesus would have want it either if you
try to look at the character of Jesus from the more cultural and social lens on History you'll actually see something similar happened to him that human societies have done with other important figures it's that different cultures adopt these figures and try to relate to them by by making them appear closer to their own population throughout history that has been a large part of how religion is spread in the first place because both their ideas and appearance would evolve and overlap with the host culture until they became a part of it over Generations if you take
the African continent the religious Christian Community in Ethiopia have created the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian art it is paintings like this where Jesus Christ is depicted as healing a blind man while in a darker skin tone and physical features that resemble closer to the native population then in China there's portraits like the Madonna scroll depicting the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ in more Asian looking features dating back nearly 5 centuries ago and of course Europeans did something similar during the Renaissance with a painting like the Last Supper that a European would feel Affinity to clearly there's
a more subtle and intelligent reading of history that someone on The View could give and was proven right when Joy bear said this next in the clip that we saw earlier which shows Jesus speaking up for marginalized people the poor Etc uh which is the Jesus that we love um not everyone interprets that message the same way these days religion in this country even seems weaponized at times uh as a man of deep Faith which you obviously are does that frustrate you at all you know and in that clip we see Jesus basically taking to
task the Pharisees that have essentially perverted the law or or or taken the faith and made it about the the spef specificity in the letters of the law versus the heart of the law versus the community you know it was they were taking great pains to follow the law at the expense of the followers and there was Injustice in that and you know anytime you see Injustice taking place um Jesus is not going to be happy about that what a convenient thing to do for someone like joy to use half the teachings of religion to
try and bolster her worldview while disregarding the convenient other half as much as someone might try to make Jesus Christ teachings fit a modern political lens they simply do not those teachings for the foundation of something that's much grander and far above the concept of individualism vers collectivism that we have today and it's just sad when something like this happens where people would ride on the shoulders of ideas to make their point and get off the moment that it's not politically convenient there have been plenty of examples of the view doing the exact same thing
especially against more outwardly religious and political figures they don't like for example speaker Mike Johnson whoopy Goldberg has even used religion to try and justify her more radical policies on the trans debate around children but for once on the panel it was refreshing to hear Jonathan roomy offer a deeper meaning of what it meant for him being a person of Faith so I moved to LA and for 8 years uh I didn't have the safety of the job that I left in New York different different uh unions and all sorts of uh complications to do
the same thing in LA but that's not what I was going to La for so I had to do all these other jobs the side jobs I drove right chair I I uh worked in catering all these things I'd never done before and gotten to the point where I was broke I was out of money I was out of food I was out of even government assistance for food and the only thing I hadn't done at that point was the thing that was left to do which was to get on my knees and surrender my
entire life and my career and everything that I had up to that point over to God because there wasn't anything I realized I could do on my own that's what this segment should have felt like from the start instead of devolving into the same political back and forth that we've all grown tired of but it's still interesting to see how the panelists at the view prove themselves incapable of offering any deeper thought on issues no matter if they're political social or religious let me know in the comments what you thought about this exchange and share
this clip with your friends and family that need to see it there's certainly no doubt that segments like this just tell you how you can't trust most of the Legacy Media that are less interested in genuine dialogue and more interested in protecting their image and feeding Their audience what it wants
