Ep. 2511 - Hollywood Turns C.S. Lewis’ Jesus Figure Into A Bisexual Woman?!

September 23, 2026

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When Hollywood Recasts a Sacred Metaphor

The Chronicles of Narnia was never subtle about what it was doing. C. S. Lewis himself explained the project plainly: "Supposing by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained glass and Sunday school associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency. Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons?" Aslan, the lion who dies and rises again, was always a Jesus figure designed to introduce Western children to Christian ideas through story rather than sermon. That is the point Ben Shapiro makes at the top of this episode: the books were a deliberate tool of Christian apologetics, intended for kids.

Now Netflix has handed the franchise to Greta Gerwig, and her first moves have been to cast Meryl Streep as Aslan and to design the lion with two differently colored eyes meant to channel David Bowie. Shapiro calls this "face tattoo syndrome"—when you do something deliberately provocative and then act surprised that people noticed. The deeper argument is that this is not an isolated creative choice but a symptom of a culture that has lost confidence in its own civilizational values and now treats them as raw material for ironic subversion.

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1 (01:31) **Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: Aslan as a Bisexual Rock Star** - Ben opens with the news that Netflix’s new *Chronicles of Narnia* director is turning Aslan, C.S. Lewis’s Jesus figure, into a David Bowie-inspired, female-voiced character.
2 (06:51) **“Face Tattoo Syndrome” and the War on Western Values** - Ben frames the Narnia controversy as a deliberate provocation, analogous to a barista with a face tattoo getting angry when you stare.
3 (10:41) **Trump at the UN: Muscular Peace Through Strength** - Ben pivots to President Trump’s UN speech, arguing it represents a correct, muscular foreign policy that contrasts sharply with the Democratic Party’s “pusillanimous” approach.
4 (23:49) **Rejecting Globalism and the ICC** - Ben praises Trump’s rejection of global governance, specifically his opposition to a global tax and his plan to sanction the International Criminal Court.
5 (30:10) **The UN as a Forum for Anti-Americanism** - Ben uses clips of anti-American and anti-Israel speeches at the UN to illustrate his point that the institution is a “wretched hive of scum and villainy” that should be destroyed.
6 (31:34) **The Suicide of Western Civilization: Britain’s Archbishop** - Ben presents an image of the Archbishop of Canterbury giving an award to a cleric who praised Osama bin Laden, flanked by a woman in a full burqa, as a symbol of civilizational collapse.
7 (34:05) **Imported Values: Praising Terrorists on American Soil** - Ben plays a clip of Imam Shamsi Ali stating that Muslims are in America to “revive” its morality and that Palestinian fighters are happy.

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Show Notes

Hollywood hands an iconic Christian fairy tale over to a Left-winger, who immediately butchers it; President Trump heads over to the UN to smack around Iran, Cuba, and the globalists; and we examine outlier polls and whether they’re a demoralization attempt against Republican voters.

Ep. 2511

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