A bad dose of Christian bashing
by Peter Hitchens, Mailonline:
Channel 4 has won much modish praise for screening the laughable anti-Christian fantasy The Handmaid’s Tale, starring a gloriously sulky and smug Elisabeth Moss.
This drama started life as a heavy-handed novel by a politically correct Canadian, Margaret Atwood.
In her fable, fanatical evangelical Christians take over the USA, and turn it into a tyranny in which they enslave fertile women, raping them once a month in the presence of their wives.
This has not actually happened at all since Ms Atwood wrote her cult book 32 years ago, despite there being lots of evangelical Christians in the USA, and it seems pretty unlikely to take place. Perhaps this is because evangelical Christians aren’t actually like this.
In an embarrassing and lengthy scene in the first episode, the heroine is duly raped. Just in case any of us didn’t get the message, the crime takes place to the background of church organ music, gradually swelling into the sound of a full choir singing Onward Christian Soldiers.
In case any viewers still don’t understand the point (Christians are bad!), the rapist reads chunks out of the Bible as he proceeds.
As usual, I await a similar drama from Channel 4 or any other major TV station, in which Muslims, who have actually set up a state in which women are subjugated, forced to wear demeaning clothing and are enslaved sexually, are portrayed as critically as Christians always are by our new cultural elite.
I repeat a warning I’ve given before. Those who seek to drive Christianity out of our society may be unpleasantly surprised when they find out what actually replaces it.
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