It is no shock that Hollywood mocks Jesus; they’ve done it for decades. But even if your beliefs don’t align with Christianity, does that make it okay to make a horror movie about Jesus’ life—mocking the religion as a whole?

In the recent production of Jesus Christ Superstar, Cynthia Erivo, a black, non-binary, bisexual woman of Catholic faith played the role of Jesus Christ. All of her characteristics do not align with the appearance of Jesus and would go against her Catholic faith, a true contradiction to who Jesus was. And now Hollywood is at it again with their latest adaptation, The Carpenter’s Son, in which they took it a step further and mocked Jesus’ upbringing, as well as His divine power.

The Carpenter’s Son, directed by Lotfy Nathan, is an upcoming horror film set to release in late 2025 centered around the early life of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Hollywood is famous for many reasons–good or bad–but speaking for recent times, the Christian audience believes that Hollywood has been leaning toward the bad side. And this isn’t just about bad productions or bad casting, but it’s more so about the message they so often relay: that Jesus and the religion of Christianity is nothing too serious.

In The Carpenter’s Son, they center around the main character, Jesus, portrayed by Nicolas Cage, and His power. Doesn’t seem so bad- after all, Christians believe that Jesus has power, right? Yes, they do- but not demonic powers.

The film’s overall setting is about how Jesus, referred to as “the Boy”, who rebels against his main guardian, “the Carpenter”, which it is based on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.

This story was never once documented in the whole Bible, nor was it foretold/prophesied in any way. That’s just the foundation; now, we have the question of the morality of the situation: is this an accurate representation of Jesus based on the given documents we have in the New Testament? No, it is not. In fact, it has to be the most extreme way to show misrepresentation of something.

First of all, any Christian- whether new to the beliefs or not- knows that this is a blatant fairytale based off of the eyewitness accounts that we have in the New Testament in the Bible. Here’s an elaboration: even though we Christians are aware that this is fake news, many non-believers do not, unfortunately.

Jesus was perfect. Meaning, He was without sin His entire life; not once did Jesus do something bad or wrong. We see this written in the Bible, with so much evidence of His divinity that it’s extremely difficult to question. So, why twist the good story of a good man- even if you do not believe? It seems odd considering they would never dare do this to Muslims or Buddhists.

People of all nations and religions have spat on Christianity for thousands of years- even before Jesus’ death on the cross. And to no surprise, the world kept doing it, with little to no end in sight.