The David Knight Show - Jesus Lookalike Does Wrestling Smackdowns
Aired: 2025-04-09
Duration: 13:17


=== Wrestling Churches Mock Faith (12:30) ===

[00:00:07]  A British church has opened its doors to professional wrestling in order to attract converts.
[00:00:13]  Converts to what?
[00:00:15]  Professional wrestling?
[00:00:17]  This makes the people who follow Jesus looking for the loaves and fishes look really good by comparison.
[00:00:23]  These people are going to these abandoned churches all over Europe.
[00:00:28]  These beautiful structures that people put a great deal of Pride and not necessarily pride.
[00:00:36]  I'll say a lot of work into in order to honor God.
[00:00:40]  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.
[00:00:56]  You know, we're told to not work as if we just got to, you know, do the bare minimum here.
[00:01:03]  As long as the boss is pleased, you know, I'm going to cut corners on the side here and this and that.
[00:01:08]  He says, no, you work as unto the Lord.
[00:01:11]  You work as if you're working for Christ himself.
[00:01:14]  You give your very best.
[00:01:16]  You give your highest.
[00:01:18]  And Andrew Torbis said, we can see that in the architecture that has lasted for a thousand years or whatever.
[00:01:25]  A lot of this stuff was almost these massive cathedrals, really multi-generational.
[00:01:30]  People were doing that to show their dedication to God.
[00:01:34]  He said, when we do work, when we do things like Bach is writing his masterpieces or whatever, we do stuff like that.
[00:01:42]  We should do it as if we are working for Christ.
[00:01:47]  And people should look at our work and say, So what is behind, what motivates somebody that does work like this?
[00:01:58]  Well, that's not the case anymore.
[00:02:00]  We have these empty shells, these buildings are not churches.
[00:02:04]  You know, the church that built them is dead now in the cemetery nearby, the people.
[00:02:09]  And so a lot of these beautiful buildings have been repurposed for nightclubs or discos or you name it, right?
[00:02:17]  I think Christianity All Wrong She's marketing a prosperity gospel.
[00:02:46]  These people are marketing an entertainment gospel, if you will.
[00:02:49]  But it's marketing.
[00:02:51]  You know, we're going to not rely on the Holy Spirit, but Madison Avenue approaches.
[00:02:57]  This is why we wind up with the churches that we've got.
[00:03:00]  And I saw this clip and it was just the most amazing thing.
[00:03:06]  And quite frankly, It's Jesus doing a wrestling match.
[00:03:11]  So they have regular wrestling matches there.
[00:03:13]  People go there and they watch the wrestling matches.
[00:03:16]  But then there's this one where Jesus goes out with the wrestlers, right?
[00:03:20]  I'm going to show it to you in a moment.
[00:03:22]  And I just want to say that when I saw this, what it reminded me of, well, my first thought is wrestling.
[00:03:29]  Aren't we told that we don't wrestle with flesh and blood?
[00:03:33]  These people are literally wrestling with flesh and blood.
[00:03:39]  They've lost the plot.
[00:03:40]  Now, we wrestle with principalities and powers and the dark forces of this world.
[00:03:45]  But these people are wrestling with flesh and blood.
[00:03:47]  They're wrestling for entertainment.
[00:03:48]  And so they do that.
[00:03:50]  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.
[00:03:56]  You know, the popular conception of Jesus.
[00:03:58]  And, um...
[00:04:11]  That was done in the Middle Ages to mock Satan.
[00:04:16]  That was all done as a mockery of Satan.
[00:04:20]  And quite frankly, this is a mockery of Jesus.
[00:04:28]  Ladies and gentlemen, let's He's waving his hands, and these guys are flipping around and falling on the ground.
[00:04:41]  Oh, he does a body slam.
[00:04:42]  He doesn't even touch it.
[00:04:43]  What is this, Buddhism?
[00:04:46]  This is like these martial arts guys that supposedly are using the chi and knocking people down and everything.
[00:04:55]  That's just blasphemy.
[00:04:56]  That's just mockery of Christ.
[00:04:59]  In the same way, medieval people mocked Satan.
[00:05:04]  They call themselves a wrestling church.
[00:05:07]  They bring blood, sweat, and tears, mostly sweat, to St. Peter's Anglican Church in northern England town of Shipley.
[00:05:16]  This is a New York Post report.
[00:05:18]  It is the creation of Gareth Thompson, a charismatic 37-year-old who says that he was saved by professional wrestling.
[00:05:25]  Oh, and Jesus as well.
[00:05:28]  Thompson says the outsized characters of scripted morality battles of pro wrestling.
[00:05:34]  Fit naturally with a Christian message.
[00:05:37]  Do they?
[00:05:38]  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.
[00:05:53]  As I pointed out yesterday, it's come out that Netflix is going to be doing the Chronicles of Narnia.
[00:06:01]  And they've got, as their director, the woman who inflicted Barbie movie on us.
[00:06:07]  And she has done a gender swap on Jesus.
[00:06:11]  Jesus, or the figure of Aslan and his allegory.
[00:06:15]  And he did it as a deliberate allegory.
[00:06:17]  He said so.
[00:06:18]  Jesus is being played by Meryl Streep as a woman.
[00:06:22]  And, of course, the Lord of the Rings was not a deliberate allegory.
[00:06:27]  He said, no, no, it wasn't.
[00:06:28]  But you could see it because he was so involved in his understanding of Christianity.
[00:06:33]  It expressed itself in the world that he made.
[00:06:36]  Boil it down to the basics.
[00:06:45]  I started seeing David and Goliath.
[00:06:46]  I started seeing Cain and Abel.
[00:06:48]  I started seeing Esau having his heritage stolen from him.
[00:06:53]  Did you see Jacob wrestling with...
[00:06:56]  With God?
[00:06:58]  Anyway, so I thought we could tell these stories.
[00:07:01]  Church attendance in the UK has been declining for decades.
[00:07:03]  I wonder why they don't take it seriously.
[00:07:06]  They found that less than half the people in England and Wales now consider themselves to be Christians.
[00:07:11]  Who would want to be associated with that kind of nonsense?
[00:07:14]  I mean, that would be embarrassing.
[00:07:15]  No, no, no.
[00:07:16]  I'm not with them.
[00:07:18]  This idiotic, blasphemous spectacle is there.
[00:07:21]  It's led churches to get creative in order to survive.
[00:07:23]  No, that's led the businesses.
[00:07:26]  They're not churches.
[00:07:26]  They're businesses to get creative in order to survive.
[00:07:30]  And that's why they're resorting to marketing.
[00:07:32]  That's why they're resorting to this prosperity gospel stuff.
[00:07:35]  Now, as Christians, we're just there to throw the seed out.
[00:07:39]  And we understand that it's going to be God who makes it grow.
[00:07:44]  That's why I guess we call it the foolishness of preaching.
[00:07:48]  Because we can't make this happen.
[00:07:50]  We just throw it out.
[00:07:51]  We don't know if we're throwing it to somebody who has ears to hear or not.
[00:07:56]  It's not a church as you would know it, he said.
[00:07:59]  And it's not for everybody, but it's bringing in a different group of people.
[00:08:03]  Yeah, it is.
[00:08:04]  And they're coming for different reasons.
[00:08:07]  Quite frankly, it's not a church that Jesus would know, right?
[00:08:13]  Depart from me.
[00:08:14]  I never knew you or this wrestling match that you're doing here.
[00:08:18]  But seriously, seriously, it is beyond stupidity.
[00:08:23]  It is absolutely idiotic.
[00:08:25]  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,
[00:08:40]  turn the other cheek.
[00:08:42]  No, they didn't do that.
[00:08:44]  They were saying, knock him out.
[00:08:45]  Make him bleed.
[00:08:47]  That's great Christian values there, isn't it?
[00:08:50]  The whole thing ought to just end.
[00:08:53]  First guy hits him and he says, okay.
[00:08:55]  He turns the other cheek and the match is over.
[00:08:57]  But no, they don't do that.
[00:08:58]  They actually get them wrestling Thompson.
[00:09:02]  They said, is a mix of preacher and ringmaster wearing a t-shirt that says, pray, eat, wrestle, and repeat.
[00:09:09]  Where's the listen part there?
[00:09:11]  Oh, that's missing.
[00:09:13]  I could tell from the fruit of all this stuff.
[00:09:15]  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.
[00:09:24]  See? It all began with his misplaced idolatry.
[00:09:27]  And that's his gospel.
[00:09:29]  You know, like Paula White.
[00:09:31]  She's focused on money.
[00:09:32]  He's focused on wrestling.
[00:09:34]  That's their God.
[00:09:35]  That's their idol.
[00:09:37]  It's very easy for us to do that.
[00:09:39]  And I talk about this because it's such an absurd extreme, right, that we look at it.
[00:09:44]  And we can all fall into this in different degrees.
[00:09:49]  That's what we have to guard against.
[00:09:50]  We can look at this and say, oh, I'm not like that at all.
[00:09:54]  Well, look at your life.
[00:09:55]  Examine your life.
[00:09:57]  Is it about...
[00:09:58]  Something else, and you think that you are really falling in line with this.
[00:10:04]  He said, people say, oh, wrestling, Christianity, they're two fake things in a fake world of their own existence, he says.
[00:10:10]  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?
[00:10:19]  But then he fakeifies it.
[00:10:22]  He said, in the wrestling world, if you really believe in it, you believe that it's true, and you can suspend your disbelief.
[00:10:28]  Oh, so is that what you're doing with your Christianity then?
[00:10:30]  Yeah, he doesn't even explain that analogy right.
[00:10:34]  And doing that analogy, he denigrates Christianity.
[00:10:38]  The Christianity is real.
[00:10:39]  The wrestling is not.
[00:10:40]  He says, you suspend your disbelief because you want to get lost in it, because you want to believe in it.
[00:10:49]  Well, hey, you know, we want to believe in Santa Claus.
[00:10:52]  We can just go down that route as well, right?
[00:10:55]  I mean, is that really what this is about?
[00:10:58]  Did Paul want to believe?
[00:11:01]  Did he want to believe or was that something that he wasn't looking for, right?
[00:11:06]  That was definitely something he was not looking for.
[00:11:09]  Now, Jesus said, no one can come to me unless the Father draws him.
[00:11:13]  Draws him.
[00:11:15]  That word means to drag or to impel.
[00:11:19]  It is God who's going to bring us in to relationship.
[00:11:24]  And if we have If we are being impelled in that direction, if we're being drawn in that direction, it is his work.
[00:11:35]  And that's why it's foolishness of preaching.
[00:11:37]  You're not going to do this out of marketing or out of slick stuff like that.
[00:11:43]  This is why the church is failing.
[00:11:45]  This is not focused on Christ.
[00:11:47]  It's focused on marketing or felt needs or whatever.
[00:11:52]  And so we don't need any phony gimmicks.
[00:11:55]  We don't need any marketing.
[00:11:56]  What we need is to pray that God will draw people in.
[00:12:00]  So these people, a lot of people putting this out.
[00:12:03]  Jesus has gone viral in the UK.
[00:12:06]  No, the church has gotten sick.
[00:12:09]  Jesus isn't viral.
[00:12:10]  the church is sick.
[00:12:21]  The common man.

=== Exposing Their Secrets (00:54) ===

[00:12:25]  They created common core to dumb down our children.
[00:12:28]  They created common past to track and control us.
[00:12:31]  Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
[00:12:36]  And the communist future.
[00:12:39]  They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
[00:12:43]  But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
[00:12:50]  That is what we have in common.
[00:12:52]  That is what they want to take away.
[00:12:55]  Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
[00:13:00]  They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
[00:13:05]  It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
[00:13:10]  Please share the information and links you'll find at TheDavidKnightShow.com.
[00:13:15]  Thank you for listening.
[00:13:16]  Thank you for sharing.