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Pro-Trump Actor Jim Caviezel Channels 'Braveheart' In Bonkers Speech At QAnon Conference
Pro-Trump actor Jim Caviezel raised eyebrows with a speech he delivered at a recent QAnon-aligned conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Quoting the Mel Gibson film Braveheart, Caviezel—who starred in Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ as well as the CBS series Person of Interest—ranted about good and evil in a speech that lapsed heavily into Christian extremism as well as QAnon propaganda.
A clip uploaded to Twitter went viral.
See it below.
Jim Caviezel gives a speech riddled with religious fanaticism and Q propaganda at the QAnon conference in Las Vegas. pic.twitter.com/9gugWfoyaG
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) October 25, 2021
The conference—called the "For God & Country: Patriot Double Down"—is so explicitly linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory it was dropped by the convention center at Caesar's Palace earlier in the year.
In his speech, Caviezel used a Braveheart monologue to call upon attendees to be willing to literally die for the QAnon crowd's definition of "freedom."
"Fight, and you may die. Run, and you'll live—at least a while."
"And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you have been willin' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that you can take our lives, but you can never take our freedom!"
"Freedom" in this case refers to refusing vaccinations and fighting to overturn the 2020 election, which attendees believe was stolen from former Republican President Donald Trump.
Having finished his Mel Gibson impression, Caviezel moved on to Christian extremism, telling attendees:
"By God, we must live and with the Holy Spirit as your shield and Christ as your sword may you join Saint Michael and all the other angels in defending God and sending Lucifer and his henchmen straight back to hell where they belong."
Next, Caviezel began talking about "The Storm," the event QAnon-ers believe is imminent in which Donald Trump will expose and arrest the cabal of Satan-worshipping, baby-eating pedophiles that run the world, which includes everyone from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Madonna and Tom Hanks.
On Twitter, people were creeped out by Caviezel's rant, including some of his Hollywood colleagues.
Jim Caviezel
Can we be so different after all these years?
We jogged together, we played basketball together, we worked together in Film & TV.
NOW I'm a henchman in Lucifers Army? Your words are dangerous & filled with hate.🤦🏻♂️
What happened my friend?pic.twitter.com/i49DcO52Va
— KID VICIOUS🔪 (@kirkacevedo) October 25, 2021
He should do the speech Mel Gibson did to his Wife next https://t.co/ZUpvsRlSJp
— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) October 26, 2021
The deranged rant just delivered by Jim Caviezel, the Christian extremist actor, sounds like a bunch of random nonsense.
Instead, it's an example of a large-scale "spiritual warfare" delusion that predates QAnon by decades & is believed by millions more. https://t.co/BwmZzzMLk2
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) October 25, 2021
Imagine if a Muslim actor or TV personality ever said exactly this, but just replaced God with Allah and Jesus with Prophet Muhammad? The same conservative audience would lose its collective mind. https://t.co/D8lJkuairW
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) October 26, 2021
Another example of the fact that the only religious voices we hear are voices of condemnation and exclusion. Caviezal embodies the Right's perverse weaponization of the inversion of the values of Jesus Christ. There is no love in it. Only hatred and the threat of violence. https://t.co/ZFDlhrGzOU
— Bradley Whitford (@BradleyWhitford) October 25, 2021
I cringe very time “Person of Interest" is trending, because it means Jim Caviezel is somewhere in front of a camera, bleating religious pablum and Q claptrap into a mic, proving once again he spent far too much time getting whipped by Mel Gibson. https://t.co/mH0sUyUqpO
— Gina 💉💉😷 (@DotterOfAlice) October 25, 2021
Ick. Rescinding my fandom. I kinda liked person of interest first episodes but it got boring. https://t.co/wLgckyDxSZ
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) October 25, 2021
Though some couldn't help but make a joke or two.
Wow, the Person of Interest revival just sucks. https://t.co/eMWcQK6a0y
— Mike Avila, "Dumb Woke Count" (@mikeavila) October 25, 2021
These @sagaftra board meetings are totally out of control… https://t.co/ZFDlhrGzOU
— Bradley Whitford (@BradleyWhitford) October 25, 2021
And to think, I had a crush on him from that movie with J Lo where he's a hot homeless guy (who turns out to be an ANGEL) and she is the totally believable beat cop.
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) October 25, 2021
Why would he quote from a movie about a Scottish guy played by an Aussie that turned out to be a huge anti-Sem…..never mind, now it makes sense.
— Matt Emmons (@mattemmons12) October 25, 2021
This isn't the first time Caviezel has creeped people out with his devotion to QAnon's rhetoric.
In April, he claimed to have inside knowledge about "adrenochrome," a chemical which QAnon adherents claim elites extract from tortured children for use in Satanic rituals and anti-aging treatments.
The claim is baseless and has roots in anti-Semitic "blood libel" hoaxes that date back to the medieval period.