{"id":462995,"date":"2021-04-30T17:20:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T21:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462995"},"modified":"2021-04-30T17:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T21:20:41","slug":"handmaids-tale-features-christians-asking-god-to-bless-waterboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/handmaids-tale-features-christians-asking-god-to-bless-waterboarding\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u2019 Features Christians Asking God To Bless Waterboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhandmaids-tale-features-christians-asking-god-to-bless-waterboarding%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462995&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4278.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>After a 20-month hiatus, \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d returned to Hulu this week for yet another round of Christian-bashing. Earlier this week, the show that once featured Christians marrying child brides featured Christians asking God to bless waterboarding torture.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/lindsay-kornick\/2021\/04\/28\/handmaids-tale-christian-fascists-perform-holy-service\">Newsbusters<\/a>, the third episode of this season featured Handmaid June (Elizabeth Moss) being interrogated by authorities after helping 86 children and several women escape the fictional world of Gilead (formerly United States) into Canada. During the interrogation, Handmaid June is waterboarded by her captors, who call upon God to bless the moment as they place a clerical cloth over her face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBless us, O Lord, for this holy service we are grateful to perform in Your name. In our search for justice, may You guide this sinner to righteousness and repentance. Amen. It\u2019s alright, shh. All right then,\u201d the lieutenant says before he tortures the heroine.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">\u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d has a difficult road ahead, given that it was meant as an anti-Trump battering ram upon its first entry into the streaming world. Margaret Atwood, the author of the book upon which the show is based, said that she garnered her inspiration for the feminist dystopian novel about women being forced to produce babies for infertile wealthy elites after visiting several totalitarian (largely Communist) regimes in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, there I am in West Berlin surrounded by the wall, and I\u2019m visiting various totalitarian regimes in East Germany and Czechoslovakia and Poland. So, for instance, Ceau\u0219escu in Romania made a law that women had to have four babies, and they had to have a pregnancy test every month. And if they weren\u2019t pregnant, why not? \u2026\u00a0It\u2019s not me who made this stuff up; the human race made it up, unfortunately,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0a warning,\u201d Atwood said of her book. \u201cI have never believed it can\u2019t happen here. I\u2019ve never believed that. And more and more people are joining me in that lack of belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Handmaid costumes have almost become a staple of the pro-abortion movement and are regularly present\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/planned-parenthood-staged-a-handmaidens-tale-demonstration-2017-6\">at Planned Parenthood rallies<\/a>.\u00a0The show\u2019s stars have also openly advocated for abortion and made ridiculous claims about how pro-life states are just like the fictional world of Gilead. Actress Ann Dowd, who plays Aunt Lydia, told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/handmaids-tales-aunt-lydia-shames-sarah-huckabee-sanders-your-actions-have-real-consequences?ref=scroll\">The Daily Beast<\/a> in 2018 that the show mirrors what happens to women in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that it\u2019s not the writers\u2019 intent to mirror what is going on, sadly, in the world and this country. But it is to wake people up, keep the dialogue going, talk. Don\u2019t let the small things go by,\u201d Dowd said. \u201cYou know, the line that I find so haunting from the first season is when Offred says, \u2018When we finally put our phones down it was too late.\u2019 Just pay attention! I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a fair amount of hyperbole in terms of we could turn into Gilead. I don\u2019t see that happening. Having said that, the permission people seem to have now to step out of the shadows in terms of white supremacy, that shocked me, how organized it was and the degree of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see, also, Roe v. Wade, that\u2019s not a simple question. The lack of awareness of how complicated the idea of abortion is. To all those pro-life individuals who are picketing and doing what they\u2019re doing, I want to ask them how many foster children live in their homes?\u201d she continued. \u201cHow many children without family have you taken in and said, \u2018I will accept this responsibility\u2019? I find all those things shocking, the degree of ignorance, of racism. With Handmaid\u2019s, what is shocking is in this era that we live in now with this president, things I didn\u2019t think were possible are in fact happening, in much larger numbers than one would have thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 20-month hiatus, \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d returned to Hulu this week for yet another round of Christian-bashing. 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