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janelle
03-06-2003, 10:23 AM
This is a letter from a friend in N.C.and want to pass it on to you all.
Hi!

I just listened to the filmmaker of "Gods and Generals" on T.V. He said that this weekend is a CRUCIAL weekend for the movie. He is encouraging Christians to go see it this weekend. As movies go, after three weeks of showings, if the movie isn't attracting enough, they start cutting it back. If Christians want cleaner, better movies ... then he said they need to support them when they're produced. He said Ted Turner gave 60 million to produce it ... without politically-correct strings attached. He said that the walking soldiers had to carefully choose what they carried because of weight, etc., and Stonewall Jackson's soldiers walked very fast as well. The soldiers carried either the entire Bible, or the New Testament.

We saw it last weekend and it is GOOD! Tonight the filmmaker was saying that ALL of the characters were real and lived during the Civil War. It is based on true stories. One of the black slaves in the movie is portrayed by the daughter of Ralph Abernathy. The music track is beautiful. It has been a 10-year project for the producer.

It was filmed on location in the Shenandoah Valley, the Virginia piedmont, West VA, and Maryland. The battle of Antietam (sp.?) was being filmed on 9-11-01.

Here is the website for it where you can find where it is showing, plus other info regarding it.

http://www.godsandgenerals.com

Thanks,

Nirvana
03-06-2003, 11:17 AM
I thought Ted Turner was an atheist??????

Jesus Cited For
Ted Turner, Jane Fonda Split
(MCNS) -- Media mogul Ted Turner, who once called Christianity a "religion for losers", says he felt suicidal after splitting up last year with wife Jane Fonda because of a clash over her new-found Christian faith.

In a 20-page article in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine, the founder of Cable News Network (CNN) and award- winning actress both agreed that Fonda’s decision to become a churchgoing Christian proved the final straw in their eight-year marriage.

"My becoming a Christian upset him very much - for good reason," Ms Fonda, 63, says. "He’s my husband and I chose not to discuss it with him because he would have talked me out of it. He’s a debating champion. He saw it as writing on the wall."

"I had absolutely no warning about it," Turner, 62, complained. "She just came home and said, 'I've become a Christian.' Before that, she was not a religious person. That's a pretty big change for your wife of many years to tell you. That's a shock."

Turner, an atheist, has been critical of Christianity in the past, calling it a "religion for losers" and a "very intolerant" faith. Last month, he referred to some CNN Catholic employees as "Jesus freaks."

Fonda said she suspects that Mr Turner’s philanthropy, including a $1 billion gift to the United Nations, has a religious undercurrent.

"Although he claims to be an atheist, at the end of every speech he says ‘God bless you’. He wants to get into Heaven."


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