The extreme viewpoint of the film didn't sit well with many Americans, and it showed at the box office, pulling in a mere $38,000 in its opening weekend. But Reiner's embarrassment doesn't end there. Now, Catholic leaders are joining the fray, criticizing the Hollywood actor/director for his divisive and unsubstantiated fears about Christianity.
From WND:
It was Reiner who released "God and Country," a video about an "alleged threat to American democracy posed by so-called Christian nationalists," according to Bill Donohue, chief of the Catholic League.
"The Meathead would have the audience believe that we are on the verge of a theocratic takeover," Donohue explains in the report, "though few outside of Hollywood and other secular subcultures pay any attention to this fable."
He explained that Reiner bases his claims on the ideology created by Katherine Stewart, who "harbors a deep phobia about Christianity."
The result, he said, is a demonstration of Hollywood's "religiophobia."
Leftists promoted the movie, and its messaging that Christian nationalism "bears an unfortunate similarity to the rise of Nazi Germany," with Reiner claiming adherents are "out to make us a Christian nation."
But Donohue points that that even while the nation's founders acknowledged God, they chose to make America a "Christian-inspired" entity, but not a "Christian nation."
In fact, the report notes Catholic Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester explained it was Thomas Jefferson who wrote that human beings are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights."
Breitbart said its own reporting has documented the "scaremongering over a fabricated Christian nationalist uprising has not been limited to Hollywood bigots with an anti-Christian chip on their shoulder."
