The Chosen has been on a media campaign for its fourth season and Dallas Jenkins tapped Allen Parr for an interview where he responds to criticisms about the show. Allen Parr is a woke player in Christian YouTube defending Eric Mason and attacking discernment ministries. Using liberals to do interviews for The Chosen seems to be a theme, as an upcoming story will further showcase. In this interview, Dallas Jenkins lies about his previous comments on Mormonism and further lies about The Chosen not being a ministry.
It’s Mormon Time
The Mormon question has been the low-hanging fruit of the criticism regarding The Chosen before them promoting their inclusivity of a pride flag on their set and subsequently doubling and tripling down.
Dallas Jenkins begins answering the Mormon question by explaining that The Chosen is no longer working through Angel Studios, a Mormon-owned company, but declines to go into more detail. Allen Parr seems to be aware of the lawsuits surrounding The Chosen’s strained relationship with its former distributor.
But then Dallas Jenkins gaslights the viewer on what his comments were regarding Mormons worshipping the same Jesus as Christians. PRotestia posted the receipts from his interview on a Mormon podcast, Saints Unscripted.
On the Mormon podcast 'Saints Unscripted' Dallas Jenkins laments that Latter Day Saints have a poor reputation with evangelicals, and gets real explicit about how much he and Mormons love the same Jesus. https://t.co/7vUsh5iStP pic.twitter.com/uFLw8ED7Jg
— Protestia (@Protestia) March 3, 2024
A Ministry Except When It’s Not
Allen Parr alludes to the materials put out by The Chosen which include sermons. He asked whether stating that The Chosen is not a ministry is a copout to avoid criticism.
Dallas Jenkins defends his previous statements by pointing out the fact that not everybody who works on the series is a Christian. He compares it to a church that has hired a construction company to renovate its building and how that church wants the best people for the job.
The problem with this analogy is that it works against the point that Jenkins is making. The church, in his example, hired contractors to support their ministry. The Chosen, likewise, hires contractors to produce and perform in the show. The sodomite cameraman was not an employee, as Jenkins made clear at the time, he was a contractor. Yet this distinction is not made when Jenkins is arguing that The Chosen is not a ministry because not all the people working on it are believers.
The fact remains that The Chosen is a ministry. Dallas Jenkins talked about being a for-profit company which makes people uncomfortable, but The Chosen has created a 501c3 nonprofit organization to fund the production and distribution of the show called the Come and See Foundation. It’s a shrewd business practice to use tax-deductible donations to fund a for-profit company’s most significant operational expenses. The Chosen has pushed Come and See as the go-to fundraising apparatus and their app as the go-to for watching streaming.
The Chosen is above board about this relationship, except when Dallas Jenkins is giving an interview. This is because Dallas Jenkins has a mountain of lies defending The Chosen and his questionable statements and decisions.
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Had to stop watching The Chosen after seeing a couple episodes. The writers change and add to the scriptural story and have made a blasphemous presentation of Jesus.