The Babylon Bee: Punching Down Christ’s Love From Heaven

Everybody hold on — the comics for Christ just played the science card.

By now, you’ve probably seen the headlines: The Babylon Bee, widely thought of as the Christian alternative to The Onion, earned itself a locked Twitter account for promoting its article naming Rachel Levine, a transitioned woman serving as the US assistant secretary for health, its “Man of the Year.” Levine was previously the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health starting in 2017, just a short time before The Babylon Bee transitioned to being unfunny.

The article pretends to accidentally misgender Levine repeatedly before a fake “UPDATE” that drops the act with a facts-don’t-care-style double down. The subtext is predictably antagonistic conservative tough guy stuff for being, ultimately, a half-dozen paragraphs speculating about celebrity penis.

Even for Christian comedy, this is boring and unoriginal. The Washington Examiner published three stories nearly simultaneously in a tone so similar it would take a moment to pick The Bee’s piece out of the pile. The Examiner has fewer awkward pop-ups about Big Tech and liberal censors.

At the time of writing, Bee CEO Seth Dillon also took to his personal account to double down, saying it’s “truth…not hate speech,” and suggesting The Bee isn’t…