How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation.
Quote #10
[War is personified as a warrior attacking a group of wounded people. He disappears, replaced by an image of Jesus atop a group of people in togas.]
Pretty impressionistic, huh? Putting aside the implication that Jesus Christ himself is on the side of Southern slave-owners, Griffith is clearly associating Christianity with peace...and slavery?! It's a pretty trippy moment in a film that is otherwise told in a straightforward, grounded fashion.