Hollywood Embraces Hell, Depicts Catholics as Devil In Disguise

I’ve seen the face of evil.

How do I know? I watch TV. Thanks to Hollywood, I got to know Lucifer Morningstar, the fallen angel himself. According to John 8:44, the Devil “was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.” Sure sounds evil.

But of course I’m not talking about him. The Lucifer of TV fame also has his name as the title of the new Jerry Bruckheimer-produced show. He is a troubled soul who saves lives, helps people, solves crimes and falls for a sort-of single mom with a bad guy ex. Lucifer even exposes a street preacher as a con man. He just has issues with “dad” who “forced” him to punish bad people in this rewrite. God and his angel Amenadiel are clearly the bad guys for wanting to send the devil back into hell.

No, the face of evil on TV is a family known as the O’Neals. They are religious extremists coping with their anti-gay bigotry while they steal, lie, violently attack people and have sex out of wedlock. Of course, they’re the “perfect” Catholic family.

This is one of the most twisted examples of Hollywood morality in the history of TV — how religion gets treated on TV even during Easter season. The Left Coast has simply rewritten the Bible to depict the greatest evil of all time as a good guy who’s on vacation from hell. While we quickly learn that the genuinely good Catholic family breaks the commandments faster than Saturday night in Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Lucifer is an incredibly skilled, well-acted manipulation that would count as brain washing if decision-makers in Hollywood had brains. It follows L.A. club owner Lucifer Morningstar as he discovers his humanity and even his possible mortality. The Faustian bargain where people sell their souls goes away. It’s replaced by Lucifer simply doling out favors and asking favors in return. Hey, who doesn’t need a favor or two in Hollywood? The broadcast even includes an advertisement to “follow Lucifer,” on social media. Maybe.

Lucifer never pretends to be someone else. Week after week, he tells people he is the devil. No one believes him. No one cares. After all, he’s not that bad devil from the Bible. He’s the good one who’s super strong, charming, has sex with just about anybody (his therapist, a threesome, a foursome), he drinks and does drugs. He’s the quintessential Left Coast good guy — someone they can identify with, but not too preachy for viewers who, like Lucifer’s crush, “don’t believe in all that Bible stuff.”

That Bible stuff is bad news, as ABC is quick to prove. The O’Neals discover their youngest son is gay (because who isn’t on TV these days) during an overheard bout of family truth where the parents admit they are getting a divorce and the daughter confesses she has been stealing money she collected for charity. The family depicted initially with heavenly light shining on them is late seen warts and all. The only person who is consistently good is the gay son.

If that sounds like propaganda, it is. The show was originally patterned after gay sex advice author Dan Savage’s supposed real life. Savage, who ironically runs the Obama-backed “It Gets Better Project” for LGBT young people, is one of the most venomous, hateful people on the Internet.

The media love Savage even when he foully mocks the pope or the Bible. He told then-GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson to “suck my d**k,” and wished Republicans were “all f***ing dead.” (Only he didn’t edit them.) Justice Scalia had just passed away and Savage urged “Scalia” be turned into a safe word for kinky sex.

Savage is listed as a producer on the show.

His views are so foul that the Media Research Center turned the edited version of them into postcards and the Postal Service still refused to mail them. ABC-Disney is helping Savage take those anti-Christian attacks and turn them into an amateurish, hate-filled sitcom.

Thankfully, no amount of PR can make viewers watch. They aren’t eager to embrace Satan as a good guy or mock Catholics with the unfunniest half hour on TV. The rotten ratings for both shows prove it. And while Hollywood is trying to take America to hell, it looks like both shows will get there first.

Dan Gainor is the vice president for business and culture at the Media Research Center.