Actor Matthew McConaughey accused Hollywood of having an anti-Christian bias that keeps performers in fear of losing future opportunities for expressing their faith publicly.
“I have had — and I won’t throw any people under the bus — but I have had moments where I was on stage receiving an award in front of my peers in Hollywood, and there were people in the crowd that I have prayed with before dinners many times, and when I thanked God, I saw some of those people go to clap, but then notice that, ‘bad thing on my resume’ and then sit back on their hands,” McConaughey said during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
“I’ve seen people read the room and go, ‘Whoa, that wouldn’t bode well for me in the future,’ if for getting a job or you’re getting votes or what have you,” McConaughey continued. “I have seen that. I’ve witnessed that … I don’t judge them for it, I just wish, you know — that it seems like a silly argument.”
McConaughey said part of the problem is how intolerant some on the Left have become to Christian views.
“One of the things that … some people in our industry, not all of them, but there’s some that go to the Left so far — as our friend Jordan Peterson [says] — that go to the illiberal Left side so far that it’s so condescending and patronizing to 50% of the world that need the empathy that the liberals have,” McConaughey said.
Peterson, a professor of clinical psychology and author, has earned fame in recent years for being critical of the Left’s embrace of identity politics, political correctness, and limits to free speech.
McConaughey said he thinks it is wrong for Hollywood to cancel someone “because they say they are a believer, it’s just so arrogant and in some ways hypocritical.”
The actor told Rogan he believes he got lucky that he “slipped through the cracks” as a Christian and achieved Hollywood success and has now become a big enough name that he doesn’t fall victim to Hollywood’s anti-Christian bias.
