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I will not see this film. I know what Exodus says and I won't tolerate some modern-day heathen telling me what it means.

Among other things, the moral equivalence advanced by this film between the pagan gods of the Egyptians and the God of Israel is repugnant.

If you disagree, please give me an example of one moral principal from their pantheon of dog and bird gods that endures today.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."

Among other things, the moral equivalence advanced by this film between the pagan gods of the Egyptians and the God of Israel is repugnant.

It is not our modern sensibilities that are at play in the Exodus of the movie or the Exodus of the Bible, but the beliefs of the Egyptians and of the Hebrews who did hold those thoughts in their respective religions. Even the Bible shows us that despite the very literal evidence of their own recent experiences the erstwhile Egyptian slaves were pretty fickle about whom to worship, being wiling to toss aside their belief in their unseen God (which is why I have serious problems with Ridley Scott's interpretation of God as a visible 11 year old boy) in favor of the Golden Apis Bull of Egypt, hoping to perhaps re-establish a relationship with the pantheon of Egypt and regain lost favor.

THEY believed in this moral equivalence. . . it was not fully developed yet. YHWH had to punish them with 40 years of wandering in the wilderness for that transgression.

Well I certainly have no intention of paying good money to see this film. I havn’t seen a movie in a theater in over 30 years and I’m not going to start now.

At some point it will be available on cable for free and maybe I’ll check out the special effects on my 42” Vizio HD TV. That will be the extent of my interest.