Jonathan Roumie
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264 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Well, let's see how this goes.
It's super dark.
I think we've reached a point now in culture where... Seeing depictions and images and symbolism of Satan and Satanism and demons and witchcraft and the symbols that's related to all of the occult are so frequent and regular that it's so easy to become desensitized. I think your mind just filters it. Like, oh, I've seen that so many times now. It doesn't even register anymore.
And if you go back a couple of decades ago, you would never see anything like that. And I've seen it more, I think, in the music industry. Demonic imagery in music videos and immodesty and all of these things that the youngest of our society are subjected to and shouldn't be, I don't believe. I think, for me, remembering that speech...
My heart was for the kids that see certain things like on music videos and then they reenact them themselves or they wear what they're seeing because it's what's popular and fashionable and they don't have any idea that
Some of the imagery or the symbols or the words that are being used are, from a spiritual standpoint, really, really damaging and really dangerous on a level that we've never seen before.
Oh, I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan. Iron Maiden. Number of the beast. I'm like, well, you know, I can't really wear that t-shirt so much anymore.
So my question for you is, but you're also referencing like that, like black, like rock and, and the imagery from, from those bands in that time are different than some of the more modern. I'd like if, if certain, I think it's much more graphic and sexualized like sexuality and, is so much more prevalent in the media, especially in music.
The display of sexuality and the dark images connected to sexuality are so much more blatant than they ever were 30, 40 years ago.
I mean, I think it could be a combination of a number of things. I think it could be how society at large has framed faith and religion and banished it from visible culture, you know, from areas in the culture where you used to
see more people i think framing their faith within the context of what they do or like even presidents and people would invoke just in their speech would invoke god in the way that they don't do that anymore and i think it doesn't seem like there's a shortage of politicians talking about but not without a negative connotation to it put it this way um i'll speak for myself
I had a conversation several years ago about the discussion of faith in the workplace. They were a non-actor. It was a sort of a production member. And I know we shared a similar faith and we hadn't really talked about it, but there was a spark of a conversation that made me think, oh, let me ask them about this. And They went on to carefully admonish me like, hey, just be careful.
You really shouldn't talk about these kinds of things because a lot of people are biased against Christians in this industry. So you might want to just kind of keep a lid on that. And I thought, but it's just us talking. Do you know what I mean? And I think...
What I recognized is that there was such a deep fear of being, quote unquote, found out that they had a sense of faith that it was just, it was not okay to possess that. And for me, that's not okay. It's not okay to be told I can't practice my faith or express it, especially if I'm not going around saying, here's the Bible, do me a favor, just read that. I'm not asking anybody to convert.
I'm not. I've never once said, do me a favor, you should convert. I just live out my, my, my mission here. I, I be who I am. And if people want to ask me questions or invite me to come talk to, you know, 200,000 people and share my thoughts about certain things, I'll pray on it first. Like with the March, I didn't even, I, the weeks were leading right up to it. I didn't want to do it.
I thought this can't be good for an actor. Uh, But then I got to this moment that I had when I first completely surrendered everything to God before I booked The Chosen. And it was the same feeling of, you know what? I'm asking you to do this and not worry about it. And it was like this wave of peace just kind of swept over me. And he said, just speak from the heart.
No. No, I think one of the reasons that we're successful and It's one of the priorities for both Dallas and myself, and I think everybody involved, is that we recognize first and foremost, this is a TV show. It's based on scriptures, based on the gospels, but there's stuff that we've had to take creative license in certain situations to be able to tell a more well-rounded story.
But if the vehicle of this story is anything less than top quality, if it's not a great TV show first, than anything else that any of us might want to have people take away from the show from a personal perspective or a faith perspective, none of that's going to matter. You know what I mean?
Like if you take a piece of gold and you wad it up in a ball of trash and you throw it on the sidewalk and say, you should pick that up, like, no, get lost. You know, nobody's going to want to even touch it. They'll just walk by it. So it's the same thing. Like if the message behind the show is a little piece of gold wrapped up in a wad of garbage, forget it. You're done. Next. Move on.
So, yeah, it still has to be a great TV show first. And then everything else from that can flow.
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