Many readers have undoubtedly felt the phenomenon building for years. Even if you personally walked with Jesus Christ, you knew that Western culture, by and large, had abandoned Him. People placed their faith in something ghastly, like “The Science” or, worse yet, themselves.

Suddenly, millions of narcissists, empty inside yet convinced of their own importance, took to the streets and the airwaves. They made claims, voiced demands, and committed acts that, to the vast majority of people simply trying to live their lives in peace while navigating this fallen world, looked and sounded as if they had drawn inspiration from the depths of hell. As a result, many who comprise the majority have either discovered or reaffirmed their need for Jesus.

All of this helps explain why, according to the box-office news and data website The Numbers, Part 1 of “The Chosen: The Last Supper,” the fifth season of director Dallas Jenkins’ blockbuster Biblical drama, maintained its momentum on Wednesday by surging past “Snow White,” Disney’s latest woke theatrical stink bomb, into second place overall with a daily gross of $965,414.

For comparison’s sake, “The Chosen” only appeared in 1,644 theaters nationwide. That gave it a per-theater average gross of $587. “Snow White,” meanwhile, polluted 4,200 theaters for a per-theater gross of $203.

As of Tuesday, “Snow White” had still clung to the #2 spot, with “The Chosen” in third place.

Industry analysts, of course, might argue over why “Snow White” has failed to meet box-office expectations. But those closest to the situation, including the son of its producer, have blamed lousy public relations brought on by the film’s woke young star, actress Rachel Zegler.

The truly joyful aspect of this story, however, belongs to “The Chosen.”

WARNING: The following paragraphs feature mild spoilers.

Since its debut in 2017, Jenkins’ Biblical drama has followed Jesus (Jonathan Roumie), his 12 Apostles, and others, including — most prominently — Mary Magdalene (Elizabeth Tabish), who appears as a young child in the series’ opening-scene flashback, and who, to a much greater extent than any of the Apostles, seems to understand not only Jesus’ message of love and forgiveness, but also His call to humility and repentance, as well as His crypic-yet-frequent warnings about what will eventually happen to Him.

The presentation of Jesus’ story through His followers’ eyes constitutes one novel element of the series. So does the fleshing out of their imagined backstories.

All of this takes place, however, within an authentic Biblical framework. Roumie speaks Jesus’ words from the New Testament. And the actor does so with such an uncommon mixture of gentleness and passion that he seems, literally, chosen by God for this role.

Indeed, Jesus’ initial appearance on screen during season 1 ranked among my personal favorites for what it revealed about the beauty of Christianity, as I indicated here.

All of this helps explain why audiences have flocked to the series and why its popularity has continued to grow.

For instance, according to the Utah-based Deseret News, the series has already shattered its own theatrical benchmarks.

“The Chosen: Last Supper, ” part one, enjoyed an opening weekend of $11.4 million in ticket sales. That figure nearly doubled the opening weekend sales for “The Chosen Season 4: Episodes 1 -3” (2024), which took in $5.9 million.

Keep in mind that each theatrical presentation features multiple episodes that eventually will come available for streaming. Thus, those who happen to miss the first installment of “The Chosen: Last Supper,” which includes season 5, episodes 1 and 2, will undoubtedly choose to wait for the streaming episodes rather than watch episodes 3 through 5 in theaters. This may lead to a dip in ticket sales as the theatrical releases roll out.

Those middle episodes, 3 through 5, will debut in theaters Friday. Then the final three episodes, 6 through 8, will hit theaters April 11.

Like all good things, the success of “The Chosen” should strike us as divinely ordained. After all, the series began as a crowdfunded project. It streamed for free on “The Chosen” app, which it will eventually do again. Now, it has emerged as a box-office juggernaut and global phenomenon.

Meanwhile, audiences have increasingly rejected Hollywood wokeness. That includes not only “Snow White” but other recent duds, such as Marvel Studios’ “Captain America: Brave New World.”

In short, Hollywood has bludgeoned moviegoers with narcissism-laden and atheism-inspired wokeness. We have felt the bludgeoning for so long that it sometimes seemed inescapable.

But we have also felt the anti-woke revolution, in particular the Christian revival, building in our culture. The success of “The Chosen: Last Supper” shows that the revival continues.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Journalist Amie Parnes of The Hill recently appeared on CNN with Jake Tapper and said that the Democratic party is still a mess and in even worse shape than they were right after their massive loss in the 2024 election.

Parnes suggests that there is still tons of infighting among members of the party and that some strategists on the left want to ‘burn the house down’ and start over.

Democrats still have no leader, no message and no ideas on how to solve these problems.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

JAKE TAPPER: Amie, let me start with you. Near the end of the book, you framed the 2024 election this way for Democrats. You say, quote, Democrats tried to break Donald Trump. Instead they shattered again. They said they were saving the country, the presidency and the Congress from Trump and his MAGA movement, they saved nothing, not even themselves. Democrats lost everything, including their friendships.

Based on your interviews with top Democrats then and now, is the party still in the shambles it was November, December of last year?

AMIE PARNES, CO-AUTHOR, FIGHT: It’s honestly even worse right now, Jake. And I think they’re scrambling to find out who their leader is, but they’re also in the midst of an identity crisis. They don’t know who they are right now. They don’t know what their message is.

And, you know, I’ve said this repeatedly over the last couple days, but I think what they need to do and what I think a lot of strategists are telling me is that they need to almost burn the house down, but not only burn the house down, accept some accountability and say, this is what went wrong. This is what we need to do now and, you know, responsibility for President Biden and maybe not getting him out sooner. And, you know, they really need to have a little bit of introspection here.

Watch the video:

Amie Parnes: Democrats Are Telling Me They Need To Burn The House Down, Accept Accountability pic.twitter.com/VxR8brAn0r

— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) April 4, 2025

Democrats can’t seem to help themselves. They don’t have anything serious to offer the American people.

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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a far left socialist and he wants the Big Apple to have government owned grocery stores.

This idea has been tried before and it failed miserably. Anyone who knows history remembers the images of bare shelves in government owned grocery stores in the former Soviet Union.

Mamdani recently shared a survey on Twitter/X showing that New Yorkers support his idea.

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices.

“The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military.”

(@cplusci/@DataProgress) pic.twitter.com/dxnkmnqYfF

— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) April 4, 2025

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also pushed this terrible idea.

From City Journal:

One of his more curious proposals, about which he is buoyant, is to open city-owned and city-managed grocery stores. His campaign literature explains that these municipal stores will be “focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit. Without having to pay rent or property taxes, they will reduce overhead and pass on savings to shoppers. They will buy and sell at wholesale prices, centralize warehousing and distribution, and partner with local neighborhoods on products and sourcing.”

In a recent interview, Mamdani said that he wants to establish “a pilot program of one store in each borough that builds on the feasibility study that was done in Chicago.” Indeed, in 2023, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson did propose opening such grocery stores, in response to the closing of many supermarkets in poor areas of the city, and he did commission a feasibility study to examine the question. That study has not been made public, however, and Mayor Johnson has backed off his plan, even though the state of Illinois established a “Grocery Initiative” to provide municipalities with up to $2.4 million to open grocery stores. Chicago has not applied for any of this money.

There are so many ways this could go badly.

How will a $30 min wage help keep prices down? Or will folks be expected to work the cash registers for free?

— Betsy’76 (@LadyAmPatriot) April 4, 2025

Imagine the DMV, but a grocery store. In the Soviet Union, people waited in line for hours and found empty shelves, and in Venezuela, government control led to food shortages, leaving many hungry—when the government runs stores, it’s harder to get food, and prices don’t really go…

— Matt Kilmer (@mattkilmer) April 4, 2025

This buffoon wants to put bodegas & grocery stores out of business by creating grocery stores run by the city to undercut them. He promised the taxpayer will pay their rent & they’ll be exempt from certain taxes. You’d have to be a psychopath or an idiot to support this https://t.co/nlU2lNQsYv

— Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) (@IamSean90) April 4, 2025

The American left is convinced that socialism will finally work this time, as long as they’re in charge.

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A new book claims that Kamala Harris was stunned by her loss on election night 2024. She actually expected to win the race.

Like many people on the left, she apparently believed the faulty polling that suggested she was ahead of Trump. Of course, we all know how that worked out in the end.

It’s fun to imagine the reaction from people in her inner circle when it became obvious that Trump was running away with the win.

FOX News reports:

Harris was ‘completely shocked’ by defeat, believed she could’ve won with more time, author says

Former Vice President Kamala Harris was reportedly blindsided by her 2024 election loss to President Donald Trump and “bought the hype” that she would win, according to a new book.

“She was completely shocked, and [Harris’ running mate] Tim Walz was shocked,” The Hill reporter Amie Parnes said on the podcast “Somebody’s Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri,” released Thursday.

Parnes discussed reporting in her new book, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” which she co-authored with NBC reporter Jonathan Allen. The book tackles the 2024 presidential campaign and the chaos that unfolded after former President Biden withdrew from the race and Harris took his place at the top of the Democratic ticket.

While continuing to discuss the confusion within the Harris campaign on election night, Parnes said that Walz was sitting in his hotel room “stunned.”

“He has no words. And people are kind of explaining to him, same thing with her. And she’s like, are you sure? Have we done a recount? Should we do a recount?” Parnes said on the podcast, recounting how Walz and Harris reportedly reacted to their defeat.

They made the same mistake so many people on the left did. They believed the media.

Kamala and Tim Walz were stunned that they lost the election, according to a new book out about their 2024 campaign.

Apparently, their people on the inside were telling them that they were winning and winning handily.

Harris even asked if they needed to do a recount only to be… pic.twitter.com/r6D5kQ2UA1

— David Joe May (@TheGrayRider) April 4, 2025

It’s amazing how many people got the election so wrong.

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James O’Keefe confronted a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official who was caught on hidden camera coaching researchers how to evade DOGE and secure funding.

James Welch, a National Institutes of Health genetic counselor told an undercover OMG journalist how helps principal investigators at the NIH change “race” to “ancestry” in clinical trials to evade DOGE and secure funding.

“I had to go look at, like, what was leaked as far as the banned words, that DOGE is just like, control F searching for so I was trying to help [NIH investigator] suggest wording. I had suggested, like, ‘a history of ancestry’ instead of ‘race,’ James Welch told the OMG undercover reporter.

Welch also admitted to wanting to shoot people at the NIH.

“My mom told me today not to shoot anybody because I’ve been buying guns but they won’t let me close enough to these f*cking people,” Welch said.

He continued, “Well, why not be prepared? I don’t want to go down like a bitch.”

WATCH:

CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA: @NIH Genetic Counselor Tells Researchers to “Change ‘Race’ to ‘Ancestry’” in Clinical Trials to Evade @DOGE and Secure Funding; Admits to Wanting to Shoot People at NIH

“My mom told me today not to shoot anybody… but they won’t let me close enough to… pic.twitter.com/76IpjeIAdN

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 3, 2025

OMG received a statement from the NIH addressing James Welch’s comments caught on hidden camera.

“NIH is taking action to terminate research funding that is not aligned with NIH and HHS priorities. We remain dedicated to restoring our agency to its tradition of upholding gold-standard, evidence-based science. As we begin to Make America Healthy Again, it’s important to prioritize research that directly affects the health of Americans. We will leave no stone unturned in identifying the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again.”

JUST IN: OMG has received a statement from the NIH addressing James Welch’s comments on advising researchers to manipulate grant applications to bypass DOGE oversight:

“NIH is taking action to terminate research funding that is not aligned with NIH and HHS priorities. We remain… https://t.co/wPRprVeLxQ pic.twitter.com/x1Y2fHr6Zv

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 3, 2025

James O’Keefe chased James Welch as he sped away in his Tesla.

“I’m the expert, not you!” Welch shouted.

WATCH:

WILD INTERACTION: O’Keefe Chases NIH’s James Welch Speeding Away in Tesla Over Confrontation on Race Terminology Shift to Dodge DOGE Oversight

Welch: “I’m the expert, not you!”

“I care about people. You don’t care about people or their health.” https://t.co/wPRprVfjno pic.twitter.com/AnrFnJ8rdh

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 3, 2025

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