Constantine's Sword Page #2

Synopsis: An exploration of the dark side of Christianity, following acclaimed author and former priest James Carroll on a journey of remembrance and reckoning.
Director(s): Oren Jacoby
Production: First Run Features
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
Year:
2007
93 min
Website
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Has he gotten somebody pregnant?

I mean what's going on?

He said look, "Dad, I'm probably going

to be getting into some serious trouble."

I said, "What have you done, Curtis?"

He said, 'No, it's not what I've done.

It's what I'm going to do."

And I said, "Ok, enough of this.

What is going on? "

He said, "The next person

who calls me a f***ing Jew...

or accuses me or our people

of executing Jesus Christ,

I'm going to beat the sh*t out of."

I was surprised because I do have

three kids there at the time.

I called Casey and said,

"What the hell is going on?"

He said, "Dad, this is just the way

it is here".

Mickey's three kids are his sons,

Casey and Curtis...

and Casey's wife Amanda...

They met at the academy.

She was raised as a Christian.

I've never heard it in high school.

If people knew I was Jewish,

it never was a point.

It never made any kind of mention.

But once I got to the academy

it became so, I was so aware of it...

that I was kind of different.

I went to lunch that day,

I had a flyer for a movie on my plate.

It was for the "The Passion of the Christ."

It had all kinds of quotes.

Every single place in Mitchel Hall had.

- Every place sitting.

- That's four thousand place sittings.

Each single one had an advertisement

for "The Passion of the Christ."

So over a three day period,

every time that I would go

to sit down there...

there is a flyer staring back at me.

"Why is this OK to do with this movie?

Why is it that nobody is making

a fuss about this?"

So we started talking

to Chaplin Morton.

But I have this feeling the whole

time that this was all fruitless.

I had eventually more and more cadets

coming to me...

and telling me these stories

about how the academy was now...

full fledge putting their stamp

on conservative Christian ideology.

If you are a cadet and you

walk in to Mitchel Hall...

and on every table are

flyers for a movie...

then as a cadet

you're going to assume...

that your academy

is encouraging you to go see it.

If you want to see

whether or not it is

anti-Semitic, you need

to see it for yourself

- For yourself

- Right.

- And we both went to go see it.

- We did.

And I felt terrible

watching that movie.

Just absolutely terrible

I look at how they portray Jews.

These are my people.

We are being portrayed

as the people who killed Christ.

How can believers see that and not

get pissed and angry at the Jews?

It's scary.

I kept telling myself

"This is July of 2004...

it's not 1096 in the Crusades.

It's not 1492.

It's not 1939 and 1940.

It's not all the spaces in between."

It's the United States Air Force academy.

The spaces in between.

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