Brazilian Judge Bans Netflix's First Temptation Of Christ To Curb Violence [Update]

[Update 1/10/2020:] Supreme Court Judge Dias Toffoli overturned the original decision by Judge Benedicto Abicair to ban The First Temptation of Christ from airing in the region on Netflix. According to Reuters, Toffoli believes that free speech should win out over hurt feelings, saying…

“The satire will not affect the Christian faith of Brazilians,”

This means that the movie is no longer banned in the region, and those who have Netflix can continue viewing The First Temptation of Christ on the streaming service.

[Original article:] Anyone who has been paying attention to Netflix’s uninhibited propaganda train against straight white males and Christianity will know that one of the most hot-button films on the service comes from a Brazilian parody troupe called The First Temptation of Christ, which satirizes Jesus Christ as a gay hipster caught in a love triangle with his gay lover and God. The film garnered extremely vitriolic backlash from the natives in Brazilian, majority of whom are Christian and found the film blasphemous, which resulted in the production company’s studio being firebombed. In result, a Brazilian judge determined that it was better to ban the film than to risk more violence.

According to UOL, Judge Benedicto Abicair of the sixth civil chamber of the TJ-RJ, explained the reasoning behind the ban of the film in Brazil, saying…

“I welcome any debate or criticism of religion, racism, homosexuality, education, health, public safety and freedom of the press, art and expression, provided that good manners, common sense, reasonableness and respect are preserved. otherwise one proceeds to verbal aggression, often with physical consequences.”

His reasoning isn’t wrong.

There have been violent attacks and threats made against the production company, which included Molotov cocktails being lobbed at the being where the studio is located, as reported by New York Times.

However, censorship sets the dangerous precedent that now people will start using violence to get things pulled that they don’t like, whether it warrants it or not.

The other problem is that it creates a chilling effect; companies may be less inclined to even discuss or tackle religious topical matter if it may result in real-world violence.

Part of the issue, however, is that the reason for the uproar that led to the violence didn’t just creep out of nowhere.

As explained in the video above, many Conservatives – even in Brazil – have noted how Leftists have been continually attacking anything related to Conservative Western values.

Leftists have been aggressively pushing the LGBTQIA+ agenda into all forms of media, either outwardly or subversively. They’ve been launching attacks on straight white, christian males non-stop. And they’ve been attempting to undermine every aspect of masculinity and traditional values with a deluge of promoting degeneracy and debauchery.

Quite naturally, if you keep pushing and attacking people, eventually they will push back and that’s exactly what happened when Brazilians began threatening the production outfit behind The First Temptation of Christ.

Others, however, took a more passive approach and began sending around a  petition to have the film pulled from Netflix. More than 2 million Brazilians reportedly signed the petition, separate from the English version of the Change.org petition, which garnered nearly 145,000 signatures as of the writing of this article.

As reported by France24, President Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, tweeted out back in December of 2019 that while they support artistic freedom, is it worth supporting art that attacks the belief of 86% of the nation…

“We support freedom of expression, but is it worth attacking the belief of 86 percent of the population,”

According to Metro, the comedy group who produced the film, Porta dos Fundos, stood by their decision to poke fun at Christianity, saying…

“We value artistic freedom and humor through satire on the most diverse cultural themes of our society and believes that freedom of expression is an essential construction for a democratic country.’”

While most people would say art is art, apparently the presiding Judge didn’t think so.

This is also one of those cases where majority of the residents seem to be against the art being fed to them. Again, perhaps if the Left hadn’t overshot their hand by constantly attacking Christianity while giving Islam a pass, people may have felt differently about the film. If there was a First Temptation of Muhammad, where the prophet was depicted as gay, it would be hard to concede that Netflix is picking on Christians. But when they also have shows like Messiah airing, which riled up the Muslims, who felt it was blasphemous both towards Islam and Christianity, it’s hard not to see where the common people of Brazil are coming from.

They’re effectively pushing back against the propaganda they don’t want.

Netflix has every right to make it, and customers have every right not to consume. However, outright banning it will start a new kind of slippery slope where the CJWs (Christian Justice Warriors) may feel emboldened to start censoring content in equal measure to SJWs, and at that point, no media would be safe.

(Thanks for the news tip FlutterDash)