Saturday, December 20, 2008

Constantine's Sword: A Review

The historical aspects of this movie while horrifying to me are to a large extent moot to me since I am not Roman Catholic. If one thing can be learned from this movie it is to approach religion in a since of humility and meekness. The most disturbing part for me in the movie was the perceived endorsement of religion by The Air Force. In a society where we have separation of Church and state to inject something so personal and divisive as religion into our nation's foreign policy seems to me a fool's mission. Also constantly referring back to Ted Haggerd in interviews as if he is some how the litmus test for Evangelical Protestantism was short sighted and one dimensional in my opinion. the treatment of Jews by Christians is a blight on Christianity as a whole not just Roman Catholicism. There has to be a reckoning for this mistreatment. Was the Holocaust God's judgement on the Jewish people yes it was but no more or no less then Babylon or Assyria where. Over all there was an under current of religious pluralism in this movie that was distasteful to me this idea that it doesn't matter where basically good people and it doesn't matter what faith we follow as long as where nice to people. Also using Elaine Pegals as your main scholarly source says a lot. But over all I thought it was a well put together, well shot if sometimes overbearing movie.