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April 9, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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Jesus Lookalike Does Wrestling Smackdowns
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A British church has opened its doors to professional wrestling in order to attract converts.
Converts to what?
Professional wrestling?
This makes the people who follow Jesus looking for the loaves and fishes look really good by comparison.
These people are going to these abandoned churches all over Europe.
These beautiful structures that people put a great deal of Pride and not necessarily pride.
I'll say a lot of work into in order to honor God.
And there was a good essay by the owner of Gab, Andrew Torba, who talked about how important it is for Christians to have excellence in their work.
You know, we're told to not work as if we just got to, you know, do the bare minimum here.
As long as the boss is pleased, you know, I'm going to cut corners on the side here and this and that.
He says, no, you work as unto the Lord.
You work as if you're working for Christ himself.
You give your very best.
You give your highest.
And Andrew Torbis said, we can see that in the architecture that has lasted for a thousand years or whatever.
A lot of this stuff was almost these massive cathedrals, really multi-generational.
People were doing that to show their dedication to God.
He said, when we do work, when we do things like Bach is writing his masterpieces or whatever, we do stuff like that.
We should do it as if we are working for Christ.
And people should look at our work and say, So what is behind, what motivates somebody that does work like this?
Well, that's not the case anymore.
We have these empty shells, these buildings are not churches.
You know, the church that built them is dead now in the cemetery nearby, the people.
And so a lot of these beautiful buildings have been repurposed for nightclubs or discos or you name it, right?
I think Christianity All Wrong She's marketing a prosperity gospel.
These people are marketing an entertainment gospel, if you will.
But it's marketing.
You know, we're going to not rely on the Holy Spirit, but Madison Avenue approaches.
This is why we wind up with the churches that we've got.
And I saw this clip and it was just the most amazing thing.
And quite frankly, It's Jesus doing a wrestling match.
So they have regular wrestling matches there.
People go there and they watch the wrestling matches.
But then there's this one where Jesus goes out with the wrestlers, right?
I'm going to show it to you in a moment.
And I just want to say that when I saw this, what it reminded me of, well, my first thought is wrestling.
Aren't we told that we don't wrestle with flesh and blood?
These people are literally wrestling with flesh and blood.
They've lost the plot.
Now, we wrestle with principalities and powers and the dark forces of this world.
But these people are wrestling with flesh and blood.
They're wrestling for entertainment.
And so they do that.
And then they have this wrestling match I'm going to show you here where they have a guy who's dressed up like they think Jesus looked.
You know, the popular conception of Jesus.
And, um...
That was done in the Middle Ages to mock Satan.
That was all done as a mockery of Satan.
And quite frankly, this is a mockery of Jesus.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's He's waving his hands, and these guys are flipping around and falling on the ground.
Oh, he does a body slam.
He doesn't even touch it.
What is this, Buddhism?
This is like these martial arts guys that supposedly are using the chi and knocking people down and everything.
That's just blasphemy.
That's just mockery of Christ.
In the same way, medieval people mocked Satan.
They call themselves a wrestling church.
They bring blood, sweat, and tears, mostly sweat, to St. Peter's Anglican Church in northern England town of Shipley.
This is a New York Post report.
It is the creation of Gareth Thompson, a charismatic 37-year-old who says that he was saved by professional wrestling.
Oh, and Jesus as well.
Thompson says the outsized characters of scripted morality battles of pro wrestling.
Fit naturally with a Christian message.
Do they?
You know, I mean, we've had great allegory Christian work, you know, like Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, and both of them destroyed by Netflix and Amazon, respectively, doing their best.
As I pointed out yesterday, it's come out that Netflix is going to be doing the Chronicles of Narnia.
And they've got, as their director, the woman who inflicted Barbie movie on us.
And she has done a gender swap on Jesus.
Jesus, or the figure of Aslan and his allegory.
And he did it as a deliberate allegory.
He said so.
Jesus is being played by Meryl Streep as a woman.
And, of course, the Lord of the Rings was not a deliberate allegory.
He said, no, no, it wasn't.
But you could see it because he was so involved in his understanding of Christianity.
It expressed itself in the world that he made.
Boil it down to the basics.
I started seeing David and Goliath.
I started seeing Cain and Abel.
I started seeing Esau having his heritage stolen from him.
Did you see Jacob wrestling with...
With God?
Anyway, so I thought we could tell these stories.
Church attendance in the UK has been declining for decades.
I wonder why they don't take it seriously.
They found that less than half the people in England and Wales now consider themselves to be Christians.
Who would want to be associated with that kind of nonsense?
I mean, that would be embarrassing.
No, no, no.
I'm not with them.
This idiotic, blasphemous spectacle is there.
It's led churches to get creative in order to survive.
No, that's led the businesses.
They're not churches.
They're businesses to get creative in order to survive.
And that's why they're resorting to marketing.
That's why they're resorting to this prosperity gospel stuff.
Now, as Christians, we're just there to throw the seed out.
And we understand that it's going to be God who makes it grow.
That's why I guess we call it the foolishness of preaching.
Because we can't make this happen.
We just throw it out.
We don't know if we're throwing it to somebody who has ears to hear or not.
It's not a church as you would know it, he said.
And it's not for everybody, but it's bringing in a different group of people.
Yeah, it is.
And they're coming for different reasons.
Quite frankly, it's not a church that Jesus would know, right?
Depart from me.
I never knew you or this wrestling match that you're doing here.
But seriously, seriously, it is beyond stupidity.
It is absolutely idiotic.
Packed into chairs around the ring, erected under the vaulted ceiling of the century-old church, after a short homily and prayer from Thomas, it was time for two hours of smackdowns, body slams, and flying headbutts as fans waved giant foam fingers and hollered,
turn the other cheek.
No, they didn't do that.
They were saying, knock him out.
Make him bleed.
That's great Christian values there, isn't it?
The whole thing ought to just end.
First guy hits him and he says, okay.
He turns the other cheek and the match is over.
But no, they don't do that.
They actually get them wrestling Thompson.
They said, is a mix of preacher and ringmaster wearing a t-shirt that says, pray, eat, wrestle, and repeat.
Where's the listen part there?
Oh, that's missing.
I could tell from the fruit of all this stuff.
He said, I would watch Shawn Michaels and The Rock and Stone, Cole, Steve Austin, and I'd be like, I want to be like them.
See? It all began with his misplaced idolatry.
And that's his gospel.
You know, like Paula White.
She's focused on money.
He's focused on wrestling.
That's their God.
That's their idol.
It's very easy for us to do that.
And I talk about this because it's such an absurd extreme, right, that we look at it.
And we can all fall into this in different degrees.
That's what we have to guard against.
We can look at this and say, oh, I'm not like that at all.
Well, look at your life.
Examine your life.
Is it about...
Something else, and you think that you are really falling in line with this.
He said, people say, oh, wrestling, Christianity, they're two fake things in a fake world of their own existence, he says.
But my own personal experience of my Christian faith is that it's alive and living, and it's true, and the wrestling, that's good so far, right?
But then he fakeifies it.
He said, in the wrestling world, if you really believe in it, you believe that it's true, and you can suspend your disbelief.
Oh, so is that what you're doing with your Christianity then?
Yeah, he doesn't even explain that analogy right.
And doing that analogy, he denigrates Christianity.
The Christianity is real.
The wrestling is not.
He says, you suspend your disbelief because you want to get lost in it, because you want to believe in it.
Well, hey, you know, we want to believe in Santa Claus.
We can just go down that route as well, right?
I mean, is that really what this is about?
Did Paul want to believe?
Did he want to believe or was that something that he wasn't looking for, right?
That was definitely something he was not looking for.
Now, Jesus said, no one can come to me unless the Father draws him.
Draws him.
That word means to drag or to impel.
It is God who's going to bring us in to relationship.
And if we have If we are being impelled in that direction, if we're being drawn in that direction, it is his work.
And that's why it's foolishness of preaching.
You're not going to do this out of marketing or out of slick stuff like that.
This is why the church is failing.
This is not focused on Christ.
It's focused on marketing or felt needs or whatever.
And so we don't need any phony gimmicks.
We don't need any marketing.
What we need is to pray that God will draw people in.
So these people, a lot of people putting this out.
Jesus has gone viral in the UK.
No, the church has gotten sick.
Jesus isn't viral.
the church is sick.
The common man.
They created common core to dumb down our children.
They created common past to track and control us.
Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
And the communist future.
They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
That is what we have in common.
That is what they want to take away.
Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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