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Singer Pat Boone attends the premiere of "God's Not Dead 2" at Directors Guild Of America on March 21, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.Paul Archuleta—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Paul Bond / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Paul Bond / The Hollywood Reporter Apr 19, 2016 4:10 AM UTC Pat Boone is calling out NBC and _Saturday Night Live_ for allegedly being anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, cowardly, “diabolical” and even demonic for a skit over the weekend that parodied _God’s Not Dead 2_, the actor-singer’s latest movie. In _God’s Not Dead 2,_ Melissa Joan Hart plays a public school teacher who is persecuted for answering a student’s question about Jesus. In the _SNL_ skit, a trailer for a movie called _God is a Boob Man_ features a woman being forced by a Jewish ACLU lawyer to declare that “God is gay.” **The Hollywood Reporter:** _‘_[_SNL’ Pokes Fun at Recent Religious Films With New Digital Short_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/snl-pokes-fun-at-religious-883318) “God has a sense of humor. Why else would he invent the porcupine and the giraffe?” Boone told _The Hollywood Reporter_ on Monday. “Something can be devilishly funny, but this skit is diabolical. God has only one real enemy — Satan. Satan ridicules faith, and they’re taking Satan’s side. They’re also ridiculing me and the film, telling impressionable young people not to see it because it’s ridiculous. Then they throw in that the lawyer is Jewish to make the Christian look even worse, but it’s just anti-Semitic.” Boone said he used to watch _SNL_ religiously, and in the early years he was asked to host the show. **The Hollywood Reporter:** [_Why Religious Movies Are Luring Mainstream Stars_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-religious-movies-are-luring-875643) “I asked them to promise that they wouldn’t make fun of my faith or my family, and they wouldn’t do it, so I declined. I know they would have treated me like a complete sap,” he said. “I used to love _SNL_. I’d record it every week. It’s gotten filthy, though, so no more.” “As much as I’ve enjoyed _SNL_,” said Boone, “they went over the line, and believers in God deserve an apology.” Nevertheless, he says he’s not calling on _NBC, SNL_ or executive producer Lorne Michaels to apologize, nor does he expect them to respond to complaints from him or any other Christian who might object to the skit. “I won’t waste my breath demanding an apology,” he said. “They don’t answer to me. They answer to the one they defame, and there are consequences.” **The Hollywood Reporter:**[ _‘SNL’ Reunites ‘Seinfeld’s’ Larry David and Julia Louis-Dreyfus_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/snl-reunites-seinfelds-larry-david-884587) Boone called NBC and _SNL_ cowardly because executives and creative talent know they can pick on Christians without fear of reprisal, whereas political correctness dictates that some other groups are off-limits. “This skit was outright sacrilege. They know if they did this to Muslims they’d have to be put into the witness protection program,” he said. “There’s nothing sacred at _SNL_ — except maybe the words ‘Mohammad’ or ‘Allah.’ They’d never take those names in vain, but when they called God a ‘boob man,’ they took his name in vain.” [_This article originally appeared on the HollywoodReporter.com_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pat-boone-accuses-snl-anti-885253) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4298732/pat-boone-snl-gods-not-dead-parody/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4298732/pat-boone-snl-gods-not-dead-parody/"},"headline":"Pat Boone Accuses SNL of Anti-Christian Bias After God's Not Dead 2 Parody","datePublished":"2016-04-19T04:10:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:51:05.048Z","description":"“This skit was outright sacrilege,\" the singer-actor said","url":"https://time.com/4298732/pat-boone-snl-gods-not-dead-parody/","keywords":["Television","Religion"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0320ff62109c031e/69888faa3c1639c6c845ce8c/gettyimages-516910596.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Paul Bond / The Hollywood Reporter"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0320ff62109c031e/69888faa3c1639c6c845ce8c/gettyimages-516910596.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of Pure Flix Entertainment's \"God's Not Dead 2\" - Arrivals","caption":"Premiere Of Pure Flix Entertainment's \"God's Not Dead 2\" - Arrivals","creditText":"Paul Archuleta—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4298732/pat-boone-snl-gods-not-dead-parody/","name":"Pat Boone Accuses SNL of Anti-Christian Bias After God's Not Dead 2 Parody"}}]}] ```