Pat Boone is claiming that a "Saturday Night Live" skit mocking his new movie "God's Not Dead 2" was anti-Christian and anti-Semitic, according to
The Hollywood Reporter.
The movie, which opened in theaters on April 1, stars Melissa Joan Hart as a public school teacher who gets in trouble for answering a question about Jesus Christ in class. The 81-year-old Boone, Ernie Hudson and the late Fred Thompson, also appear in the movie.
In last Saturday's SNL parody, a fake trailer for the movie "God Is a Boob Man," Vanessa Bayer plays a baker who refuses to make a gay couple a cake and is taken to court.
"God has a sense of humor," Boone told the Reporter. "Why else would he invent the porcupine and the giraffe? Something can be devilishly funny, but this skit is diabolical. God has only one real enemy – Satan.
"Satan ridicules faith, and they're taking Satan's side. They're also ridiculing me and the film, telling impressionable young people not to see it because it's ridiculous. Then they throw in that the lawyer is Jewish to make the Christian look even worse, but it's just anti-Semitic."
"God's Not Dead 2," has made $17.5 million in movie theaters since its release, according to
Box Office Mojo. The movie is a sequel to the 2014 movie "God's Not Dead," which made $60.7 million in box office receipts.
Boone said NBC should offer an apology even though he is not calling for one, said the Reporter. He said the network would have never treated other religions like it treated Christianity in the skit.
"This skit was outright sacrilege," Boone said. "They know if they did this to Muslims they'd have to be put into the witness protection program. There's nothing sacred at SNL — except maybe the words 'Mohammad' or 'Allah.' They'd never take those names in vain, but when they called God a 'boob man,' they took his name in vain."
Boone found support on social media.
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