Jim Caviezel: ‘I Want to Bring God’s Light’ to Entertainment
By Movieguide® Contributor
Has modern day Christianity become so weak and useless?
SOUND OF FREEDON and PASSION OF THE CHRIST actor Jim Caviezel seems to think so.
Caviezel spoke to Fox News Digital about modern day Christianity and said, “The problem is that modern day Christianity has become so weak and useless. I mean, modern day Christians are more afraid of the devil than they are of God. God could destroy the devil without a glance, but he looks to us to make a decision.”
He added, “So, you have moral depravity. I mean, moral decay everywhere, falling apart. Laws don’t mean anything anymore. We don’t have a First Amendment…There’s no such thing as free speech anymore. You’re absolutely destroyed everywhere, and the media throws out everybody’s a racist.”
Caviezel stated that his main purpose for SOUND OF FREEDOM isn’t to entertain audiences but to spread a message.
The Daily Wire reported on Caviezel, “The purpose God gave me in this business, I wanted to bring his light. And it doesn’t mean I’m always his light into an industry. And I wanted to do that, but it doesn’t mean that I’m not going to play the devil in movies. Just there’s got to be some sort of moral redemption.”
“But the math is so wrong now. It just seems [the devil’s] evil is winning right now,” he added.
“I may not have any friends around me when this is over, but I’ll have [God],” Caviezel declared. “He won’t leave me. I’ll be looking at him at that point. When I do leave this earth, at least I gave the best I could from God, you know, and my Father in heaven. And I want the world to know I love him. And maybe that’s evil to them. Not to me, but to them.”
Director Alejandro Monteverde presented his goal for the film when he said, “I hope this movie really only begins when you all leave the theater. And that’s our hope that it’s something that they’re thinking about the next day and the next day and the next day. And it’s our responsibility to build.”
“We’re in the back end right now building the landing pads because eventually when they start wondering what to do, here we are. Here’s some options, here’s some resources, here’s some opportunities for you to rise up, get loud, intervene, do what you need to do to help us end this horrific plague that is affecting so many millions of children,” he added.
Movieguide® recently reported:
Monteverde told the Christian Post that he is very serious about what Jesus told his disciples in Luke 17:1-2, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.”
When Monteverde was at the premiere for SOUND OF FREEDOM he suggested to his friend and film producer, Eduardo Verástegui to “run for president” so that the fight to end child sex trafficking would continue.
ChurchPOP Editor posted a video on YouTube where Verástegui stated, “I’m thinking about it. I’m praying about it a lot.”
Verástegui recently told the Christian Post that he wishes to “put pressure on the government so these things become a prime priority, not just for the government, for everyone.”
“What really hurts me the most is that the people who are doing this to these kids are human beings like you and me, made of the same. This is not people who are coming from other planets that are our enemies. This is people like us. So, in what moment, what happened to these guys?” Verástegui added. “They were kids at some point full of dreams. So, what happened in what moment they decided to, ‘You know what? I’m going to use my life to hurt kids.’
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