Netflix Christmas Film Mocks Nativity, jokes about aborting baby Jesus

Netflix’s latest offering, “That Christmas,” an animated Christmas movie aimed at families, makes a mockery of the Christmas story in one scene that gets a lot of attention.

The film centers on a ragtag group of children, all led by a rebellious teenager named Bernadette. At one point in the film, the kids come together to put on a school Christmas production written by a few students who feel it Biblical birth Story is too outdated for modern culture.

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When Bernadette introduces the program, she describes Jesus as “a cool guy” with a beard and long hair and “into woodwork,” calling him “a hipster basically.”

As the program unfolds, viewers see the shepherds tending vegetables instead of sheep, and the wise men from the scriptural story are replaced by three wise women.

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The most egregious part From the production, however, comes when the young girl playing the role of Mary, Jesus’ mother, sings, “Papa Don’t Preach,” a 1986 Madonna song about deciding whether to have an abortion. The girl sings while hoisting a watermelon with a face carved into it, meant to represent baby Jesus. At one point, another student accidentally knocks the watermelon out of the girl’s hands and it falls to the ground and splashes on the audience.

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