Well, Rose went to see the new Jim Caviezel movie on Wednesday night, and she reported back to me. She said it was the best movie she’s ever seen, or close to it. In this post, I wanted to go over a couple of points about the movie, then we’ll hear from the famous actor. Then I want to say something about whether society wants men to lead on moral and spiritual issues.

So, to start, something from Christian Post:

Devout Christian actor Jim Caviezel, who stars in the upcoming film “Sound of Freedom,” is calling on 2 million people to stand with him and expose the evil of child exploitation and trafficking.

Scheduled for release on July 4, “Sound of Freedom” tells the true story of one man’s journey to combat child sex trafficking. The studio behind the film, Angel Studios, unveiled the first trailer at their Illuminate event on Thursday.

“God’s children are not for sale,” the actor declares in the trailer.

Caviezel then delivered a call to action for anyone willing to buy a ticket to see the film and raise awareness against this prevalent form of slavery.

“We know this is heartbreaking and it hurts to look at, but the first step in helping these children is hearing their story. Not enough people know this problem exists and even fewer people are willing to do anything about it,” Caviezel declared.

“Our goal is to inspire 2 million people to attend the film’s opening weekend to represent the 2 million trafficked children around the world.”

[…]“Sound of Freedom” is based on the life of Tim Ballard, a former U.S. agent who battles human trafficking after rescuing a little boy whose sister remained captive to traffickers and was sent to Colombia.

Hollywood, which is largely dominated by secular leftist Democrats, does not like movies that are critical of pedophilia and sex-trafficking.

The film was rejected by multiple Hollywood studios but Angel Studios acquired worldwide distribution rights earlier this year.

Angel Studios is a platform for filmmakers to collaborate with the audience and bring projects to life by crowdfunding. It currently creates and distributes films and TV series worldwide and is known as the studio behind “The Chosen” and “Dry Bar Comedy.”

Angel Studios CEO Neal Harmon said his company feels a responsibility to take action and answer the prayers of the 2 million children around the world who are crying for freedom.

You can’t watch the movie on Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, or Amazon Prime, because they apparently oppose movies that make pedophiles and sex-traffickers feel bad.

According to this video, Disney did not want the movie to come out, which is understandable, given their actions in Florida:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDKfqYKDJME

This interview with Caviezel is also very good, and makes the point that Hollywood is opposed to movies that are critical of pedophilia and sex-trafficking of children.

So what I wanted to comment on was this article that Rose sent me from the Daily Wire, which has some challenging words for Christians about moral evils like sex-trafficking:

“The problem is that modern day Christianity has become so weak and useless,” Caviezel told Fox News Digital in a new interview. “I mean, modern day Christians are more afraid of the devil than they are of God. God could destroy the devil without a glance, but he looks to us to make a decision.”

The “Person of Interest” actor went on to say that Americans mostly “don’t want” God in their lives, which has led to the overall deterioration of society.

So I wanted to say something about whether Christians – especially Christian men – are allowed to make truth claims and moral claims. I think a lot of opposition to truth and morality comes from inside the church. Let me explain.

I have no problem with Christian teachings like a real, eternal Hell or the immorality of homosexuality. But when I bring up my views in Christian environments, it is not well received by emotional people in the church. And that’s because the emotional people in the church are forming their views on truth and morality based on their feelings. They liked the idea of postmodernism – that things are true and false based on feelings. They liked the idea of relativism – that right and wrong are different for each person. When they hear a man claiming that something is false, or that something is wrong, they feel bad. They want everything to be equally true, and they want everything to be equally right. “Don’t judge” they say.

That’s what I see happening today. This emotion-dominated view of truth and morality has taken over the culture, making it hard for Christian men to lead on moral and spiritual issues. The new religion is “don’t judge”. So, when a man sees someone acting in reckless, irresponsible ways, he cannot be allowed to identify their action as the root cause and shame them for it. Because that would hurt their tender feelings. The answer to evils can only ever be that other people are forcing the bad behavior. “The cause is systemic, so don’t judge” the emotional people say. And then the emotional people demand that you solve problems with forgiveness and redistributing wealth to equalize outcomes.

I have even had one woman tell me not to judge women who have unpaid student loans for useless degrees, because “if God forgives them, then you have no right to speak out against student loans for useless degrees”. That’s where we are now. “Don’t judge” is ruling and reigning our culture. We can never warn people before they make a costly mistake, by telling them the truth, or by telling them what’s right and wrong. That’s “judging”. We have to let them follow their hearts, and then pay the costs ourselves.

Imagine that you walk into the house and find the floors covered with 2 inches of water. You go upstairs and find that all the faucets in the bathtub, shower and sinks are on, and overflowing. You say “It’s wrong to flood the house” and then you take action to turn off the faucets. Right now, the emotional people are telling the truth and morality people not to turn off the faucets, but to take a bucket and throw water out. Why? Because we don’t want to make the person who opened the faucets feel bad for doing reckless, irresponsible actions. Just leave the faucets on, and grab a bucket instead.

Well, I’m not going to use my time, money and effort to fix problems without addressing the root cause. Either we go back to allowing men to tell the truth and defend right and wrong – even if some people’s feelings are hurt – or we can count men out of solving problems. Men are not designed to be servants who tip-toe around the feelings of other people. Men tell the truth, and men defend the moral law. We are not here to be the clowns and servants of emotional people. And we are not here to be slowed down in our championing of truth and morality by the emotional people.