{"id":48174,"date":"2016-06-20T13:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=48174"},"modified":"2016-06-22T22:42:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T05:42:20","slug":"exclusive-a-clip-from-civil-war-drama-free-state-of-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/06\/exclusive-a-clip-from-civil-war-drama-free-state-of-jones.html","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: A clip from Civil War drama Free State of Jones<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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In many ways, the American Civil War was a religious war, with people on both sides making religious arguments for and against slavery \u2014 and that aspect of the war continues to surface in movies about the conflict and the history that preceded it.<\/p>\n

For example, Nate Parker\u2019s The Birth of a Nation<\/i> (which premiered at the Sundance festival five months ago and comes to theatres nationwide in October) reportedly focuses on the religious visions that motivated Nat Turner\u2019s slave rebellion in 1831.<\/p>\n

And now, in a clip from Free State of Jones<\/i> (which opens this Friday), the leaders of a rebellion against the Confederacy declare that you cannot own \u201ca child of God\u201d.<\/p>\n

Here is the clip, which features Matthew McConaughey and Mahershala Ali as Jones County rebels Newton Knight and Moses Washington, respectively:<\/p>\n