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The Prince of Egypt isn't a Christian movie, it's Jewish. It's literally from the old testament, the book of Exodus.
I don't care if you're religious or not, stop helping the Christians appropriate my culture.
Judaism doesn't have exclusive ownership over the old testament. They are an important part of the Christian canon too.
Heck, you don't even give enough of a shit to refer to the scripture by the Jewish name. If you really cared perhaps you should start by calling it the Torah, the name "old testament" is nonsensical when you remove the new testament.
You should stop complaining about people "appropriating" your culture when you're already giving it away freely anyways.
What a strangely aggressive take. The old testament in Christianity is more equivalent to the Tanakh in Judaism, of which the Torah is a part. The film tells the story of one of the highest of high holidays in all of Judaism, so it does make sense to call it a Jewish movie first and foremost.
After all calling a Christmas movie Jewish just because Jesus was a Jew would be silly.
I appreciate you, I actually didn't know that set of books could be referred to as the Tanakh. I knew calling it the Torah would be a bit of an overstep.
Even if Christians claim it as part of their religion and have been appropriating it for "2000 years", it's still neither right nor accurate. I view it as further attempts to make Christianity seem more like the right choice and ease conversion for Jews which really really REALLY bothers me. It's right up there with calling Jews white. We're not.
Whether we're white or not depends on how convenient it is for someone else 🤣
I live in a very Jew-friendly area so thankfully nobody's attempting outright conversions, but there's always the consistent commentary of Christianity being the default that just hits be the wrong way.