I'm pretty sure if they'd gone even an inch closer toward "WTF YHWH that's a dick move" they'd've gotten a full religious right shitstorm
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As it was the movie was fairly "controversial" when it came out for reasons you wouldn't think would be controversial
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Replying to @arthur_affect @thelindsayellis
What was that? Showing God's presence or something? (I was 14)
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Replying to @RiffChick @thelindsayellis
Yes, and the degree to which Moses was humanized
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Replying to @arthur_affect @thelindsayellis
I think it's totally worthy of criticism. But there are just some things about it that really hit home for me, and I'm an atheist most days
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Like, they actually show Jewish people being religious/faithful and also loving one another, not being stingy/suspicious/bigoted
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Replying to @RiffChick @thelindsayellis
Yeah, as someone raised Christian I'm hesitant to go all deconstructive on Exodus bc it's not really my lane as such
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They talked about how they wanted the movie to center Jewish and Muslim POVs on Moses as much as/more than Christian ones
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To varying degrees of success (religious Muslims & Jews were much less ok with a humanized, flawed portrayal of Moses)
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I remember reading an Orthodox Jewish commentator saying Moses falling in sexual love with Zipporah was all wrong
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