Hollywood’s Latest Christian Bashing Project ‘The Book Of Clarence’ Props up Nation of Islam Rhetoric
LaKeith Stanfield in The Book of Clarence (2023), Sony Pictures Entertainment
Hollywood never tires of insulting Christians. In the latest project from musician Jay-Z and director Jeymes Samuel, The Book of Clarence provides an ‘alternate’ biblical history that is both blasphemous and racially divisive.
The film is set in Jerusalem in 33 AD, which is depicted as overwhelmingly black. Clarence is a pot-smoking drug dealer and schemer trying to escape debt from a brutal loan shark.
Seeing the rise of Jesus Christ, Clarence tells people he is the true Messiah in order to get people to give him money to get out of trouble. During Clarence’s messanic rise, the film attacks traditional Christian beliefs suggesting that white people have corrupted history and the writings of the Bible,
