[oyez]

I wonder if there was a big outcry when the "Ten Commandments" or "The Greatest Story ever Told" was released. I was rather of a pup back then so I don't remember.

[Cicero]

No. Everyone pretty much assumed that Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, or all those Bing Crosby-type Christian movies were more or less normal. Magazines like Time reviewed them favorably. Only in the 60s did the media openly start acting as they do now. They might push for more sex in the name of "freedom of artistic expression," but they didn't push for less religion.