Posted on 08/13/2015 7:57:37 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Lord of the Rings actor John Rhys-Davies decried Islamic terrorism and political correctness in an interview with podcast king Adam Carolla Monday night.
“There is an extraordinary silence in the West,” Rhys-Davies told Carolla. “Basically, Christianity in the Middle East and in Africa is being wiped out – I mean not just ideologically but physically, and people are being enslaved and killed because they are Christians. And your country and my country (Wales) are doing nothing about it.”
“Why is it so evolved not to judge?” Carolla replied, identifying political correctness as the culprit. “This notion that we’ve evolved into a species that’s incapable of judging other groups and what they are doing, especially when it’s beheading people or setting people on fire or throwing acid in the face of schoolgirls… I like that kind of judging. That’s evolved!”
Carolla added that the U.S. “crushing Hitler” in World War II was a “good thing” that would not be possible now because Bill Maher would be “screaming” about tolerance.
“This is a unique age,” Rhys-Davies explained. “We don’t want to be judgmental. Every other age that’s come before us has believed exactly the opposite. I mean, T.S. Eliot referred to ‘the common pursuit of true judgement.’ Yes, that’s what it’s about. Getting our judgments right, getting them accurate.”
“Why can’t we get the same nations on the same page?” Carolla asked. “There’s a lot of nations that are never going to go down this road with us, but your nation, England, they’re sane. Why can’t we get them back toward sanity?”
“I think it’s an age where politicians don’t actually say what they believe,” the actor replied. “They are afraid of being judged as being partisan. Heaven forbid we should criticize people who, after all, share a different ‘value system.’
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Trump’s got his VP.
Bless his heart.
I could have sworn I heard that he died a couple years ago.
You should’ve killed Sam-Wise when you had the chance, Gimli.
That will definitely put him at odds with the actor that played Gandalf.
A Welshman ?
Nope, just saw him in a new independent movie “Beyond the Mask.”
Shhh...
I interned for the Dennis Miller show and Davies was a guest. I already knew where he leaned back then and this does not even surprise me one bit.
Reading this did my heart good. Thank you for posting- I went to Breitbart and read it all.
What a thoughtful man.
“That will definitely put him at odds with the actor that played Gandalf”.
That’s right. John Rhys-Davis has been married to the same woman for 49 years. Ian McKellen is on his second long-term “partner” if you get my drift.
Nice.
It’s not that the countries think they’ve “evolved” past having to judge. It’s that they have lost their collective will to fight and have rationalized a way into believing their “evolution” is why they don’t want to fight AND that it’s a positive thing.
It isn’t.
I miss that series.
If it weren’t for Sam, Frodo doesn’t make it to Mt. Doom!
#15 amazing special effects. They shrunk him.
Gimli - smart fellow. I heard him before. Hugh Hewitt interviewed him when the LOTR was released in the theaters.
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