{"id":303099,"date":"2023-12-08T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=303099"},"modified":"2023-12-07T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T22:38:48","slug":"liam-neeson-misdirected-revenge-killing-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/liam-neeson-misdirected-revenge-killing-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"What Liam Neeson’s misdirected revenge story tells us about killing innocent human beings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Irish actor Liam Neeson has recently come under fire<\/a> after he agreed to join Hallow, a Catholic prayer app.<\/p>\n

Neeson, who voiced the character of Aslan in the \u201cThe Chronicles of Narnia” movies, will be voicing the app\u2019s guided Advent prayers, called \u201cAdvent with C.S. Lewis.\u201d Yet Neeson, who was raised Catholic, was an outspoken advocate for legalized abortion in Ireland, and narrated a film from Amnesty International calling for the country’s law protecting preborn children to be revoked, complete with anti-Catholic imagery. The film depicted Catholicism as a “darkness” haunting Ireland, to which abortion was the solution.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, old comments of Neeson’s resurfaced<\/a> at Buzzfeed, in which he spoke of wanting to kill a Black person as “revenge” for the rape of a friend. \u201cI went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I\u2019d be approached by somebody \u2013 I\u2019m ashamed to say that \u2013 and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] \u2018black bastard\u2019 would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know?” he told the Independent in the original interview<\/a>. “So that I could kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n

He shared this anecdote a second time in an appearance on Good Morning America, adding that he “did seek help. I went to a priest, I aired my confession, I was reared a Catholic. I had two very, very good friends that I talked to. And believe it or not, power-walking, two hours every day, to get rid of this. I\u2019m not racist. This was nearly 40 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

This mindset, however, also lends itself to a pro-abortion viewpoint. Whether it’s arguing that women “need” to kill their preborn children due to rape or incest, or because she may be kicked out of her home or face violence or abuse at the hands of a partner or family member if she remains pregnant, Neeson’s anecdote and the actual act of abortion seek to punish an innocent person for the crimes of someone else<\/strong>.<\/p>\n