Tuesday, September 4, 2012

What I learned from watching The Prince of Egypt

What I learned from watching The Prince of Egypt: A story that starts with the infanticide of thousands of children, causing a mother to place her infant son into a river infested with crocodiles, which leads to a supernatural battle between a deity and human priests over the fate of slaves, culminating in the torture of an entire country and death of yet more innocent children, is supposed to be a wonderful story. 

Let's not forget all of the magic (such as a talking burning bush, frog summoning, specific target death spells, a fire vortex, and parting a sea) that suspends the laws of nature entirely. What a silly and disgusting story that obviously doesn't care about historical accuracy. 

Not to mention, the recently liberated slaves are forced to wander the desert for a very very very long time, ensuring that most of the people that started the actual event would be dead long before they got to the promised land.

I also learned that faith is more important than life, freedom, choice, and ones own children. Again, disgusting.

People are free to believe whatever they want to believe, but even the religious have to admit that this story is just silly.

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