John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© November 16, 2025
I recently re-watched the Christian Dystopia movie “Disciples in the Moonlight” due to a FaithWire post I read from 11/13/25. In case you are interested in watching the movie, I did so on Pure Flix. The FaithWire post points to streaming at Angel.com.
Disciples in the Moonlight is dystopian because it takes place in an American future in which the Bible is watered down to a message acceptable to Leftist Secular Humanism. The original Biblical translations from the Greek and Hebrew have become so criminalized, owning them is a felonious crime. Distributing Bibles adherent to the original language context is now a hate crime so egregious, one could be shot on sight by the authorities for underground distribution.
Friends, the installed Biden Administration was slowly guiding America toward this dystopia. YOU can believe any future Dem-Marxist majorities in the U.S. Congress coupled with another Dem-Marxist President (whether legitimately elected or again installed), will again begin the “Progressive” move to make Biblical Christianity a felonious crime in America.
LGBTQ acceptance among modern Churches is the most glaring example yet hardly not the only example of ignoring the Word of God:
Leviticus 18: 22; 20:13; Romans 1: 18, 26-27 NKJV
Leviticus 18: 22; 20:13
18 22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
20 13 If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
Romans 1: 18, 26-27
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who [a]suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Footnotes
a. Romans 1:18 hold down
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their [a]women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the [b]men, leaving the natural use of the [c]woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
Footnotes
a. Romans 1:26 Lit. females
b. Romans 1:27 Lit. males
c. Romans 1:27 Lit. female
Sadly far too many Churches are already embracing ungodly concepts diluting Biblical Morality such as homosexuality & same-sex marriage to name a few contradicting the Word of God:
o Affirming Denominations; gaychurch.org
o The End of Absolutes: America’s New Moral Code; Barna (ABOUT PAGE); 5/25/16
o When the Larger Culture Abandons God and Biblical Values; By Michael L. Brown; AskDrBrown; 9/16/21
o Mainline Protestant Clergy’s Support for LGBTQ+ Rights Has Grown; By Suzanna Krivulskaya, Ph.D.; Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI); 12/21/23
o [My Browser posted a Warning Alert. My suspicion is the page is so anti-Left, the warning is more Conservative content related than website dangerous. YOU DECIDE.] How the Left is Undermining Christian Values in America; By Marila; therwth.com; 10/24/24
o Gay Friendly Churches; LGBTI NEWS; 12/1/24
o Does sin matter to the Christian left? By Pete Riehm; Renew America; 4/15/25
YOU REALLY SHOULD READ the FaithWire post entitled, “What If the Bible Was Outlawed in America? Actor Brett Varvel Explores The Scary Idea”.
JRH 11/16/25
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What If the Bible Was Outlawed in America? Actor Brett Varvel Explores The Scary Idea
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Disciples in the Moonlight screenshot (FaithWire Photo)
November 13, 2025
For believers in China, persecution and oppression aren’t abstract ideas to be debated; they are reality.
That lived experience for Christians in the People’s Republic of China — an unabashedly communist nation — served as a muse for actor Brett Varvel, who stars in and directs “Disciples in the Moonlight,” a film set in the American midwest and exploring what it might look like if Christianity and the Bible were outlawed in the United States.
To understand the crux of Varvel’s movie, though, viewers need to grasp what’s happening to Christians in China.
The evangelization of China was on the rise in the late 20th century, though there’s evidence from the Pew Research Center suggesting it has since slowed. Nevertheless, the CCP, alarmed by the number of Christians in the country, seemingly — and heretically — took to heart the old adage, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.”
As CBN News has reported, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s regime has, in addition to destroying church buildings and arresting ministers, undertaken a decade-long process to sinicize the Bible, that is, to infuse it with communist propaganda and recast Jesus as a murderer and sinner.
Youtube VIDEO [1ST 3:40-Minutes relevant to post]: China Rewrites the Bible | Christian World News - July 19, 2024
[Posted by CBN News
Posted on Jul 19, 2024
For example, it reimagines the story of the woman caught in adultery in John 8:1-11. In the New Testament passage, the religious leaders bring to Jesus a woman who has sinned. In response, He tells the crowd only those who are without sin can stone her. One by one, the men walk away, leaving Jesus alone with the adulterous woman. He then forgives her and tells her to “sin no more.”
But in the CCP-edited version of that passage, it states:
Jesus once said to the angry crowd who was trying to stone a woman who had sinned, “He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.” When his words came to their ears, they stopped moving forward. When everyone went out, Jesus stoned the woman himself, and said, “I am also a sinner.”
Varvel’s film, now streaming on Angel, draws heavily on that sinister reality.
“It’s not just that the Bible has been outlawed,” Varvel said on CBN’s “Faith in Culture.” “But it has been changed, and all the offensive language has been taken out, a government-sanctioned, approved text has now been distributed, and you basically now turn in your copy of the Bible for what we call [in the movie] the ‘Enlightened Truth Bible.'”
Youtube VIDEO: What if the Bible Were Outlawed in America? | Faith in Culture
[Posted by CBN News
Posted on Nov 8, 2025
Varvel, a devout Christian, argued there have been “glimpses” of persecution for Christians even in the U.S., were there is freedom of speech and religion.
More than anything, he said, the movie led him to imagine what he would do if that level of persecution came to America.
“Even with the freedoms we currently have, what are we doing with it?” Varvel asked about believers in the United States. “I can’t tell you how convicted I was when, one night, in the development of this project, I got my wife and my kids in the living room with me and we got together every single Bible in our house and we put them on the coffee table.”
Ultimately, he continued, there were 17 copies of Scripture in their home.
“It just was this sobering moment of realizing how much I take it for granted,” the actor said. “And how I’m not doing enough with my faith, enough with my freedom, and I desire this [movie] to be a shot of adrenaline in the arm of a believer, to be bold about their faith, to be unashamed about what Jesus has done for us.”
Varvel went on to reference Romans 1:16, in which the Apostle Paul wrote, “For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes — Jews first and also Gentiles” (NLT).
“It takes a lot of the pressure off of us,” he said, “because it’s not us who’s going to change anybody’s life. It’s the power of God’s Word and the Holy Spirit and we just have the opportunity to be faithful and be His messengers. And that’s really what I hope people take away from ‘Disciples in the Moonlight,’ to realize God’s Word is absolutely true, it is where we find all morality, it’s where we find the instruction manual for life, but it is also how we get to know the God of the universe.”
He encouraged listeners to “get serious about God’s Word, get serious about our faith, and not be ashamed of it.”
You can catch our full conversation with Varvel in the vide[o] above.
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