TruthRevolt Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro appeared before a Fox News panel with Sean Hannity Thursday night to discuss the growing controversy surrounding the film Noah, based on the Biblical story of Noah's Ark, for being entirely unfaithful to the sacred text where God, or "The Creator," floods the earth and wipes out humanity because of pollution and overpopulation, not sin.

Hannity began with footage of Fox & Friends First co-host Ainsley Earhardt interviewing the film's cast & crew at a red carpet premiere Wednesday night, asking questions like why the film has garnered such negative buzz in religious communities and why the film refers to "God" only as "Creator" even though the Bible explicitly calls him God "20 times" while calling him Lord "29 times." Actress Emma Watson felt director Darren Aronofsky, a self-described atheist, "didn't so much take liberty with the text, but fill in the gaps." Screenwriter Ari Handel defended his use of the word "creator" over "God," saying he wanted to take a "half step back from it being a Christian story, a Jewish story, or a Muslim story" and make it a "universal story." Actor Russell Crowe called the film's early critics "infected by stupidity."

On the panel, Ben Shapiro, who had previously seen the film at a screening Wednesday night, told Sean Hannity immediately he would not like the film. When asked why, Shapiro stated:

The reason you're not going to like it is because it is a complete reversal of what the Biblical narrative is in terms of sin. I mean the Biblical story of Noah is about man being sinful. The word that is used in Hebrew means the earth was corrupted, but typically used to mean violence, sexual immorality, idolatry. In this movie, the great sin that humanity commits is degrading the environment. So the worst sins you can commit are eating a hamburger, really, not being a vegetarian. (I'm) dead serious....

...It's that all these city dwellers came and they created cities, and they had to ruin the environment in order to create these massive cities. Overpopulation is a big problem, so is the eating of animals. The degradation of the environment by mining is a huge problem, so pre-historic fracking. The idea behind all of this is to turn God into Gaia, so God is basically taking revenge. The real kicker in this, the part that is really disturbing, and spoiler alert here--the great moral conflict for Noah becomes whether to kill his own family inside the ark after the rest of humanity has perished, because humanity is the enemy of the environment. So the climactic scene is him standing over two newborn babies, deciding whether or not to kill them.

Hannity then asked Fox News contributor Father Morris' opinion on the film's "creative license." While Father Morris conceded that all Biblical films will have to take some form of personal identity away from the original texts, he emphasized that by completely changing the story it changes "the nature of God." However, Father Morris did find it "hopeful" that they were talking about the Bible because of the film.

Shapiro, however, didn't share his optimism, stating:

I have seen the movie, I can criticize it now. It is the equivalent of making a movie about Martin Luther King in which Martin Luther King is an advocate for racial inequality. It is literally taking sin and turning it on its head. The villain in the story is a guy who actually ends up quoting the beginning of Genesis that "you are masters of the earth, that you're given dominion over the birds and the flocks." The villain says that, because you're not supposed to have mastery over these things. It's a deliberate mistreatment of the Bible.

With regard to why an atheist would concern himself with such a religious story, Shapiro felt Aronofsky did it for one thing: money.