‘They Want the Government to Be God’: Scott Baio and the Anti-Communist Film Festival

    This year we are hosting an Anti-Communist Film Festival. It’s an idea I had last August and there are now major people and foundations involved. I will be posting an update in the next two weeks.

    In the meantime, I’d like to add a name to the list of celebrities I’d like to invite to the festival: Scott Baio.

    Last year I got to talk to Baio, an actor with decades worth of experience, about a movie he’s in, God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust. The film stars David A.R. White as Davi Hill, a chaplain who enters a congressional race after the sudden death of a favored incumbent, state senator Peter Kane. Kane is a secularist who touts the Enlightenment at every media stop and has antipathy towards Christians. Pastor Hill’s David’s campaign inspires people who want more morality, honesty, accountability and decency back in American public life. 

    Baio plays Wesley, a sleazy opposition researcher who works for Senator Kane. Wesley tries to destroy Hill’s chances by implying an arsenal of planted and false or exaggerated stories. One of the minor characters in God’s Not Dead is Martin, played by Paul Kwo. Martin has come to the U.S. from communist China. A former atheist and now a Christian, Martin warns Reverend Hill about the Cultural Revolution in China and how it had spread to America. The Cultural Revolution was a period in the 1960s in China when people were tortured and killed if they dissented at all from the Marxist teachings of leader Mao Zedong. Hollywood loves to make movies about Joe McCarthy, but they are far more reluctant to address the Cultural Revolution and how something similar may happen in America.

    “I think you see it a lot with the persecution Christians,” Baio told me at the time. “They want to take away the Ten Commandments, You can’t say Merry Christmas. The meaning of Christmas has been totally whitewashed.  I’ll watch a movie where Christmas is about buying gifts for people – that’s not what Christmas is about, it’s about the birth of Christ. From the time that I was a boy until now, so much faith has left this country. There’s no faith in schools, no religion in public schools. I think what people want is for the government to be God, When you control life and death then you can be God.”

    Baio’s truth has cost him in Hollywood. “I’ll give you one short story” he says. “A friend of mine contacted abc because he had an idea for a show. He contacted an executive an abc named Dawn Soler.  She wrote back: I don’t want Scott ‘Trump’ Baio.”

    Baio also made an important point. He hasn’t become a political ideologue. It is liberalism that has gone off the deep end. “I’m the same person I was ten twenty, thirty years ago,” Baio told me. Baio also noted this statistic: there. Are 40 million Christians in America who don’t vote. “If you believe in God and want this to be a God-fearing nation,” Baio said. “go see this movie. Don’t just get pissed off, vote.”

    Also, support the Anti-Communist Film Festival.

Editor’s note: We now have the room to run syndicated commentary by some of our favorite and most provocative thinkers on the Right. That only happens because of the support of our readers, who ensure that we have the resources to keep providing an independent platform and independent voices in a sea of Protection Racket Media domination. 

Help us maintain that fight! Join Hot Air VIP and use promo code FIGHT to get 60% off your membership.