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By Movieguide® Staff
What sorrow for those who say
that evil is good and good is evil,
that dark is light and light is dark,
that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
-Isaiah 5:20
HUNKY JESUS, a blasphemous documentary set to debut this summer, wants to position itself as a “spirit of joy, resistance and radical inclusion.” If you had to reread that sentence, you’re not alone.
The documentary follows drag queens dressed as nuns, known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and frames them as “cultural trailblazers” for openly mocking humble and reverent Christian figures. It opens with “the large Hunky Jesus festival, an outdoor festival-style party in San Francisco with performance, drag, and a competition crowning the best ‘Hunky Jesus’ and ‘Foxy Mary’ from a line-up of feathery, sparkly and colourful Jesus and Mary impersonators from the public,” according to a release. “The event footage is interspersed with interviews with the Sisters, their honorary Saints including Honey Mahogany as well as religious leaders Father Donal Godfrey and Sister Barbara Battista.”
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The Sisters claim they are “exploring the intersection of religion, queerness and satire and how the film sits within a lineage of documentaries that are capturing unique communities reshaping culture, religion as something that shouldn’t be gatekept or exclusionary.”
But here’s the thing — Christianity is the most inclusive religion on the planet. Nothing and no one is “gatekept” when they call upon the name of the Lord (Romans 10:13).
A spirit of joy isn’t obtained by caking yourself in makeup or wearing ostentatious costumes or exposing your body for the world to feed on. The spirit of joy truly only comes as a gift of the Holy Spirit when we surrender what we want to His will.
Resistance isn’t disrupting for the sake of offense. Jesus’ resistance looked like healing on the Sabbath, telling parables that contradicted the common understanding of temple theology and looking for faith instead of wealth.
And radical inclusion? How about that time that Jesus took the most mismatched group of men and called them His disciples, His friends? There were fishermen, zealots and tax collectors. He refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery. People like the Sisters love to stop at that point in the story, but they ignore the next part. Jesus looked at her and said, “Go and sin no more,” (John 8:11). Jesus came for the poor and the hurting, the outcasts from society. He healed beggars and honored widows. He rebuked religious leaders who were in it for looks only. He healed the servants of the enemy. Radical inclusion meant that Jesus gave us all the same starting place: the opportunity to repent and choose Him.
Will you watch HUNKY JESUS?
However, that is when our life truly begins. We must die to ourselves and choose Christ every day.
What would it look like if a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence would die to themselves? Right now, instead of embracing how they were made in the Image of Christ, they are choosing to blaspheme His name and His creation. A documentary won’t convince us otherwise.
They want to use HUNKY JESUS to showcase how the Sisters subvert expectations and confront oppressive systems within religious and conservative circles. But in reality, all we’re going to see is broken people who will do anything to run from the freedom we have found in Jesus.
The devastating conclusion, though, is that if people continue to embrace evil, if they reject Christ and rejoice in sexual immorality instead of fleeing from it (1 Corinthians 6:18), they will spend eternity separated from Jesus. All a true Christian wants is for our friends and family to come to the same saving knowledge that we have in Jesus Christ, and we will do everything within our power to share that message.
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