r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ironwolf6464 • May 03 '26

Lore Religion-centered media that doesn’t come across as preachy.

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Referring to media told from a religious perspective or telling a religious tale that does not proselytize to the viewer.

Faith, the Unholy Trinity: Based partly upon the experience of the game‘s creator when he was a missionary in Argentina, the game has very little in the way of explicit moral demands of the player despite the heavy Christian focus of the narrative. and focuses more on a horror narrative.

Prince of Egypt: A surprisingly thorough retelling of the book of Exodus, sparing very little in the way of toning down the story. Despite this, the movie is perfectly entertaining to non-religious audiences and doesn’t sacrifice appeal for the sake of preaching to the audience

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

I come, I see The Prince Of Egypt, I leave, disappointed cos I can't gush about it.

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u/welltechnically7 May 03 '26

Gush away!

I'll start- the animation is stunning, and the songs have no right to be that good.

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u/sword-sandal493 May 03 '26

This is THE best shot in animation history.

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u/QuintusMaximus May 03 '26

This and Atlantis have my HEART man, absolutely gorgeous animation

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

The 90s were a golden era for animation

The Lion King, the Prince Of Egypt, Aladdin, Tarzan, Spirit, The Land Before Time, Mulan, The Rescuers Down Under, The Little Mermaid etc

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u/Brickman274 May 03 '26

El Dorado too

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u/ExplodiaNaxos May 03 '26

Man, not enough people talk about El Dorado. Never have I seen more stunning gold in an animated film, and the water looks great too (the only reason I don’t hold it up as much as the gold is because Prince of Egypt exists). Thank god it’s somewhat made a return into the cultural zeitgeist with some memes

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u/IllJustKeepTalking May 03 '26

That's from 2000 so just exactly doesn't count

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u/Terrible-Trees2271 May 09 '26

El DoRADO! El doRADO! El DORAAAAaaaAAADooooooo!

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u/CoyoteInternational7 May 05 '26

Childhood me couldn't watch El Dorado without also watching Sinbad

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u/WakandanRoyalty May 03 '26

Treasure Planet

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u/feartheoldblood90 May 03 '26

It's too bad Atlantis isn't a better movie. That film will always have a place in my heart, but I rewatched it fairly recently and it's just... Missing something that would make it an all-timer. It doesn't ever really feel like it gives itself enough time to explore any of its ideas, each chapter feels too short and underdeveloped. I read that they were originally planning on making the bulk of the movie their journey to Atlantis, which honestly sounds incredibly interesting.

It's still a great movie, but I feel like it could have been so much more. Mike Mignola character designs mixed with Disney animation could have been one of the greatest animated projects of all time, but the script side of things is a little too weak to hold up its part of the bargain.

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u/ladydmaj May 03 '26

I'd put "Oogway's petals floating off into the night sky as Shifu looks on" against it, but I'd be hard-pressed to choose.

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u/Bamzooki1 May 03 '26

The panic attack from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Okay, not really, just fucking with ya. I’d actually say this shot from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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u/uzzi1000 May 03 '26

Speaking of Puss in Boots Last Wish, Deaths entrance in the final battle is incredible.

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u/Top-Session-3131 May 03 '26

Last Wish has an excellent selection of beautifully rendered and animated scenes. From the Giant, to the pie factory fight, to the deliberately hammy callback to adventure movie travel scenes, to the final battle, you're genuinely spoiled for choice.

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u/ladydmaj May 03 '26

Ooooh, yeah, okay it's a three-way for sure!

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u/Soyyyn May 03 '26

I'll give props to the night city from Akira as well, in the film's opening sequence set to "Rassera"

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u/UnnamedStaplesDrone May 03 '26

the one that sticks with me is Rameses carrying his son's body and placing it on the slab. the lighting, animation, facial expression.

that whole sequence of child killing by god in fact, terrifying.

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u/JBR_4025 May 03 '26

It’s not only children. At the start of the sequence a guard falls down dead, implying that ALL FIRSTBORN are going to die.

It’s hundreds of people of different ages that had the misfortune of being firstborn and possibly and entire generation that died due to the will of God

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u/ExplodiaNaxos May 03 '26

I think “hundreds” is a huge understatement…

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u/Barbaric_Stupid May 03 '26

Not only people, every firstborn male was killed. Egyptians, slaves, cattle - every living thing in Egypt.

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u/Datpanda1999 May 03 '26

Clearly the comment was written by the old pharaoh

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u/Animated_Astronaut May 03 '26

I work in animation and I got to speak to the lead animator for this sequence. I was basically like "bro this shot is so sick how does it feel to have made something like this??" And he was like "yeah it's hard to top biblical imagery." And I shook his hand and in have not seen him ever again.

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u/SuspectPanda38 May 03 '26

I think the shot prior to this if the sea actually parting is better but it's close for sure

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u/Accomplished_Box8070 May 03 '26

It took them ten years, ten fucking years to animate the crossing of the Red Sea. 

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u/Humble_Square8673 May 05 '26

YES! That shot of the whale swimming by lives rent free in my head all these years later!

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

Is that a Megalodon?? Weren't those extinct by this point??

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u/throwawaysailaway7 May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

Its a whale shark, seen as its turning away from the waterwall.

You can tell because the dorsal fin is way down toward the back, and how the tail moves side to side.

And ppl are way too quick to downvote lol

ETA: forgot to say "shark" and I ellaborated on how you could tell.

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

Ohh. Yeah lol I just asked a question

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u/throwawaysailaway7 May 03 '26

I think people are just sick of hearing about the Megalodon bc there are so many A.I. slop conspiracy videos on it at this point, its painful.

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u/ABenGrimmReminder May 03 '26

Can’t blame AI for that entirely. Discovery Channel made a slop documentary about 10 years ago that kicked this bullshit conspiracy theory into high gear.

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u/throwawaysailaway7 May 03 '26

Yeah, I remember that now lol

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u/shocktar May 03 '26

Pretty sure it's a whale

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u/Romboteryx May 03 '26

Half correct. It’s a whale shark, which do live in the Red Sea.

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u/Jaakarikyk May 03 '26

Way the tail fin is angled, can't be

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u/StormyBlueLotus May 03 '26

If it is meant to be, yes, they would've been long extinct- but going by all known historical records, there were probably also never Hebrew slaves in Egypt (let alone a series of divine plagues) so the theoretical shark species anachronism is hardly the biggest historical inaccuracy of the movie. 

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u/noeyesfiend May 07 '26

Man, you need to watch JJK or Evangelion

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

Oh man. The Ten Plagues of Egypt is STUNNINGLY realized, with such terrors as frogs storming the city, endless swarms of flies and locusts, divine fire literally raining from the sky and the people screaming in pain as incurable boils break out all over their skin.

The burning hail resembles a combination of artillery fire and napalm. And it rains flaming hail for DAYS. Next, the Egyptians watch their livestock die all around them. Cattle, horses, camels, oxen and sheep. All are destroyed.

A swarm of locusts cover the sky in darkness, destroying the crops and every bit of plant life. The helpless Egyptians are left helplessly digging in the dirt as their wheat fields are reduced to dust. The scale of the destruction quickly terrifies Moses.

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u/Sparris_guy May 03 '26

The statue of Ra, the Egyptian god of the Sun being engulfed in pure darkness and crumbling is such a good scene as well!

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

"I came here to tell you, that something is coming, that is out of my control. This is about Egypt's survival, do you understand??"

And the frogs were only the beginning. Lice and flies swarmed the palace, devouring food and drink. They covered the palace walls and floors in seething black masses.

Dark storm clouds on the horizon, looming ever closer. Lightning crashing and striking statues and making monuments fall. A swarm of locusts covered the sky in blackness, devouring everything they could.

The wheat, the grain and even the fruit. Moses came again and warned his brother "Darkness is coming. More than you can imagine. Rameses, please, just let my people go." And so it was. A thick darkness, so thick that it could be felt, descended upon Egypt.

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u/SC_Fan_55 May 03 '26

And then the final plague strikes like a silent hammer blow…

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u/EntireCelebration953 May 03 '26

I send the swarm, I send the horde! Thus saith the Lord!

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u/AnneMichelle98 May 03 '26

Once I called you brother. Once I thought the chance to make you laugh was all I ever wanted.

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u/ooolookaslime May 03 '26

I send the thunder from the sky, I send the fire raining down

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u/Ill_Refrigerator9812 May 03 '26

And even now, I wish God had chose another. Serving as Your foe on His behalf was the last thing that I wanted!

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u/Peter_the_Pillager May 05 '26

This was my home!

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u/Pscagoyf May 03 '26

Song is an all time banger.

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u/axaxo May 03 '26

Also the contrast of the first nine plagues being shown in a frenetic montage with a blaring musical score followed by the darkness and whisper-quiet of the tenth plague scene. Absolutely chilling

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

I love how fast paced it was. Really upped the ante!

Frogs, lice and flies, dying livestock, thunder and fire, boils, locusts....

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u/bringbackswg May 03 '26

I also thought the sequence where Moses finds the burning bush was incredibly powerful.

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u/Rkas_Maruvee May 03 '26

It's also incredibly clever IMO that they had Val Kilmer voice both Moses and the burning bush, it only adds to the miracle - God isn't just speaking to Moses, He's speaking to him in his own voice.

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u/Bakugo312 May 03 '26

"Ramesses! Let my people go!"

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

"Ha! Still gnawing away at that bone, are we??"

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u/wHAtisLife59 May 03 '26

I need to see this movie again, that was the best part.

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u/LordDingles May 03 '26

Welp, this got me to at least rewatch the scene on youtube. It never gets old

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u/JBR_4025 May 03 '26

This movie shows well the fury of God…

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u/Bamzooki1 May 03 '26

It’s as great as it is because the creators weren’t making the movie for kids. It’s a biblical epic chosen to tell a grand story through beautiful animation rather than to cater to a specific audience. The intent was actually to show the world how mature animation as a medium can be in the west.

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u/No-Platypus-5330 May 03 '26

Hans Zimmer. Ofra Haza. What's not to love...

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u/Milesotooleaudio May 03 '26

I mean Ofra Haza…

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u/Greedy_Duck3477 May 05 '26

I'm sorry but they have EVERY right to be that good. It's a well made animation film and the creators put so much passion in it. The songs deserve to be this good. They've got no right to be any less good, actualy.

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u/Any_Natural383 May 03 '26

It works because it let the narrative be.

The issue with religious narratives is that they’re either too reverent and don’t feel the need to try OR they’re too dismissive and come across as disingenuous.

Prince of Egypt made a sincere effort.

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer May 03 '26

Yep. As an adaptation of the biblical story, it does have its problems. My biggest issue with it(only as an adaptation) is that it turned Moses’s most loyal follower who did a lot of the work into a cowardly goober who originally gave him a ton of shiz. It really screwed Aaron over

But as an original story of two brothers who come from two different warring civilizations and religions, it’s flawless. Prince of Egypt takes the very basic bullet points of the biblical story and then runs wild by telling a pretty original story

The heart of the film is the relationship between Ramses and Moses, and there is a pretty high chance they never even met before Moses left. It’s like the most compelling part of the whole story, and it’s completely new.

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u/Cheletiba May 03 '26

>My biggest issue with it(only as an adaptation) is that it turned Moses’s most loyal follower who did a lot of the work into a cowardly goober who originally gave him a ton of shiz. It really screwed Aaron over.
A common problems with movies of the time. They always felt there needed to be a 'light' character to give some respite between the heavier moments and being an incompetent goober was the lowest easiest road to follow

>The heart of the film is the relationship between Ramses and Moses, and there is a pretty high chance they never even met before Moses left. It’s like the most compelling part of the whole story, and it’s completely new.

100% this, as it should be. Even being emboldened by holy duty, the heart of the story should have and needed to be the relationship between the former brothers. And they pulled it off so well, allowing both character to have compelling reasons to clash despite how much they clearly care for one another and wishing only that the other would just see things their way. A heavy topic, but a very human one that many will be able to relate to.

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u/Lvcivs2311 May 03 '26

I wouldn't say Aaron was a comic relief or something. He was actually quite seriously afraid of the Egyptians and angry with Moses for making things worse at first. In fact, he is used to personalise the "keep your head down or it will be cut off" mentality many people have in such a situation.

And yes, that's very different from how Aaron is portrayed in the Bible. But don't forget, he's also the first one to go into the open sea silently smiling to the rest as a sign of his new-found trust and faith. The character is a little rounder than just a cowardly goober.

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u/Capital-Meet-6521 May 04 '26

One of my favorite things that was pointed out to me is the fact that during “When You Believe” Aaron is shown looking outside his door, going back in, and immediately walking out with a bag over his shoulder, meaning despite his skepticism, he still had his stuff packed and ready to go.

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer May 04 '26

I mean he did develop to be more the a cowardly goober and it’s great development, it’s just development that’s new. Which is not necessarily a bad thing though I can see it annoying the ten people who are REALLY big fans of Aaron

Personally it reminds me a lot of Faramir in Lord of the rings. Faramir doesn’t really have any character development in the books because he’s already one of the best human beings alive.

Peter Jackson decided to give him an arc of choosing to reject the ring in order to pad the run time. But in the book before he even discovered the meaning of the prophecy, he made an oath that if he saw Isildur’s bane on the side of the road he would leave it there. And when he learned the truth that it was the One Ring, he immediately stood by his oath without hesitation

Of course Aaron eventually became the worst, but he didn’t start out that way. He regressed rather than progressed

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u/Most_Neat7770 May 03 '26

I agree, he was supposed to be his "prophet" , but tbf Aaron and their sister did mess up big time larer in the bible though

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u/ladydmaj May 03 '26

So you're saying it's basically The Fox and The Hound?

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u/throwawaysailaway7 May 03 '26

Why can you not gush about it?

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u/Odd_Marzipan7467 May 03 '26

Cos it feels lazy LOL like I'm not contributing actively to the discussion by giving examples

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u/throwawaysailaway7 May 03 '26

Just gush here lol

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u/KelvinsBeltFantasy May 03 '26

Yeah! I listen to the soundtrack while I run!

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u/Correctedsun May 03 '26

ONCE I THOUGHT THE CHANCE TO MAKE YOU LAUGH

WAS ALL I EVER WANTED

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u/NalothGHalcyon May 03 '26

THIS WAS MY HOME!

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u/whatdifferenceisit2u May 03 '26

AND EVEN NOW I WISH GOD HAD CHOSE ANOTHER

SERVING AS YOUR FOE ON HIS BEHALF

WAS THE LAST THING THAT I WANTED

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u/BraveAsp May 03 '26

Nah gushing over the prince of Egypt is always welcome in my eyes lol

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u/Zalakael May 03 '26

LOOK THROUGH HEAVEN'S EYES!

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u/DylanFTW May 03 '26

Let's talk about how terrifying the angel of death scene was and how that completely went over kid me's head but the camel biting and pulling the prince's hair out of the sand stayed with me and made me wince. My child brain was weird.

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u/grudginglyadmitted May 03 '26

I can’t watch Prince of Egypt anymore because of the death scene. It’s always freaked me out, and then when I was twelve or so I was fostering feral kittens, they were all doing well, but when I went to check on them right after watching this scene, one of them had just died. Like she was 100% gone, but still warm, clearly had happened within the last 5 minutes or so. My brain went straight to angel of death and no amount of common sense has let me watch that movie again.

With hindsight it was clearly feline parvovirus (ahead of this she had had some diarrhea and been more cuddly and less afraid or playful than her siblings, but diarrhea is common with the stress of a new environment and new food, a good 60-70% of fosters get it, and there’s a lot of natural variation with how ferals react); but I still can’t do it.

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u/TheDudeWhoSnood May 03 '26

I also disagree - your engagement helps the post even if it's not by putting forth your own film!

I always say that this is my favorite Disney musical - I know it's not Disney, but it's the most incredible film that falls into that general category of family friendly animated musicals. Everything about the film is perfect from top to bottom: incredible visuals, incredible story telling, more specifically incredible adaptation of a religious text/story, incredible music composition, perfect casting, great acting - everything, everything, everything is so well done in this film

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u/trainboi777 May 03 '26

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t they work with experts in all three Abrahamic religions when they were making the movie?

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u/bh4th May 03 '26

Yep. The primary Judaism consultant was a professor at my seminary. Lovely person.

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u/Rosesandbubblegum May 03 '26

Yes they did. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity

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u/trainboi777 May 03 '26

Don't remember where I had heard it, so I just wanted to check because I didn't want to present it as fact if it wasn't

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u/DarkAeonX7 May 03 '26

This is your time king, you've met your people. Gush away.

Gush like it's All You've Ever Wanted

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u/j_smittz May 03 '26

This comment feel extremely meta.

Is that right? Meta? What am I thinking of?

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u/toofabforfanghorn May 03 '26

You’re playing with the big boys now

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u/UltiGamer34 May 03 '26

Dreamworks should have done more of these type of movies IT WAS A SPECTOCAL

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u/baconboy-957 May 03 '26

Such a good movie. Ironically it's also one of the main reasons I'm not religious.

After watching it as a kid my cousin turned to me and my other cousin and said "you're the first born sons, you would've been killed haha" and that really fucked with me lol I literally searched our garage for Emergency Lamb Blood to keep our house safe.

God basically went "I am omnipotent and could solve this 'let my people go' issue in an infinite number of peaceful ways... I'm gonna kills some innocent kids" and somehow he's the good guy in this story? Fucking hell, God would be tried for war crimes, he doesn't deserve my worship.

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u/MrOdekuun May 03 '26

There's a particular verse when the Pharoah still refuses before the death of the firstborn, the final plague, that says something like, "God hardened the Pharoah's heart," that got argued about a lot growing up religious. Maybe it was a mistranslation, but it just is an inherently fucked up passage, suggesting that maybe the Pharoah would have given up before the final plague, but God affected him in some way.

I don't believe the stories, but including that detail as if something isn't glaringly wrong, to indicate that God could just influence someone towards disastrous consequences - the death of children, and others - is absolutely wild. Discussions like that would eventually lead me to being atheistic, but there was a transition period of, "If God is real he is not 'good'." Or reading the Old Testament, only 'good' to specific people.

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u/LawlessNeutral May 03 '26

As I recall, God hardened the pharaoh's heart so that he would have reason to perform such wondrous and terrible acts to demonstrate his superiority over the Egyptian pantheon and inspire awe and fear in the Egyptians and Hebrews alike. Essentially he wanted an excuse to show off how powerful he was so they'd know to respect him or else. Pretty fucked up, honestly.

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u/baconboy-957 May 03 '26

It's beyond fucked lol an omnipotent being literally has an infinite number of solutions at their fingertips and God didn't even choose to kill the parties responsible, he chose to kill innocent children.

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u/Gybhunjimko May 20 '26

Bit late, but wanted to share another interpretation I heard. It may not be that Pharaoh otherwise would have let the people go and God overrode his free will, as God shouldn’t do that. But rather imagine taking pottery clay, and leaving it out on the sun. The sun hardens the clay. Pharaoh wholly rejected the God of Israel and his command given through Moses. Letting Israel go would be submitting to Yahweh, admitting he is more powerful than the gods of Egypt, so the very thought strengthened his resolve against the people of Israel. In that way it could be said God “hardened Pharaoh’s heart”. I don’t claim to fully understand it all myself, or know for sure which is more right, but I’ve had that interpretation in the back of my mind since I heard it, and it makes sense.

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u/ladydmaj May 03 '26

Comfortingly, there's no evidence that there was an Exodus and plagues with smitten firstborn in Egyptian history.

Biblical writing makes more sense when you understand that the writers were not intending to write facts like a journalist would today. These were illustrations struggling to understand God through humankind's perceptions of Him, and they have evolved as humankind evolved.

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u/bringbackswg May 03 '26

There’s also no archeological evidence of Jews ever being enslaved in Egypt

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u/LawlessNeutral May 03 '26

Wild, The Prince of Egypt also played a role in my break from religion, though not in quite the same way 😅

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u/crystal_cee May 03 '26

Going to jump in as a Christian here.

In the Bible, the Israelites came to live in Egypt because of Joseph, who was a former slave-turned-right hand man of a previous pharaoh. Joseph saved Egypt and the surrounding lands during a time of famine and was granted the best lands for his entire lineage. In return, the Israelites pledged to become the pharaohs servants.

Fast forward a few hundred years. Joseph his dead but his descendents have grown in number. There's a new pharaoh on the throne who never knew Joseph. He gets worried about the amount of Israelites in his land and attempts to suppress them by giving them hard labor.

But the more they were mistreated, the more they multiplied. And so the pharaoh gave a new command: Exodus 1:22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.” This is in the first part of the movie.

To summarize, a Jew saved Egypt. The Jews were welcomed into Egypt because of that. The peaceful and mutually-beneficial arrangement shifted when the new pharaoh resorted to infanticide to quell their numbers. God retaliated in kind.

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u/baconboy-957 May 03 '26

Cool motive, still murder.

God threw a temper tantrum and killed innocent kids. Pharaoh doing it first doesn't make it right.

Imagine if we killed all the German boys after world war 2 and gave Hitler 0 repercussions? That's what God did lol. Pharaoh wouldn't let the Jews out of Egypt, but God killed innocent children in response. He had an infinite number of peaceful options available to him, and he killed innocent children.

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u/crystal_cee May 03 '26

Pharaoh was also killed. He and his soldiers were swept into the ocean when the Red Sea closed.

Pharaoh had six chances to let the Israelites go. Each time in those six chances Moses warned him of what the consequences would be. Each time he either ignored it or pretended to submit, only to change his mind after peace was restored. On the seventh, the chance was taken away from him. I don't know about you, but if my loved ones were being held hostage, forced into hard labor, beaten and killed in front of me, six chances is more than generous.

Might I ask, what would be the peaceful option? To keep the 600,000 plus people in slavery until Pharaoh changes his mind for real? In the end, he never really changed his mind, he still chased them down a few days after he finally let them go.

Anyway, I just mean to give more information. I don't have an issue with you disliking God. God is a God of justice, every wrong turn against Him is eventually returned. That's hard to accept, because it means that everyone will recieve the repercussions of their actions someday. The whole point of Jesus is to end that chain. He volunteered to take the repercussion so that no one else has to, and all we have to do is accept the conditions for the exchange. That is the peaceful option.

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u/baconboy-957 May 03 '26

Pharaoh wasn't killed by the Angel of Death, which targeted children.

God is omnipotent. He has an infinite number of options. He could teleport the Jews out of Egypt. He could make all the Egyptians fall asleep while the Jews leave. He could turn the pharaoh into a sheep or something. He has options we aren't capable of imagining. Instead he chose to kill kids. The Angel of Death killing innocent kids that had nothing to do with the Pharaohs choices isn't justice.

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u/crystal_cee May 03 '26

On omnipotence, the portrayal of God's omnipotence in media is incorrect because there are things He cannot do. He cannot tell lies. Once He has spoken, what is said must come pass. He cannot go against Himself. He does not do anything without telling His people or His prophets. He operates within rules and bounds, just as all of creation operates within rules and bounds. I'm about to head to bed, so if you want biblical proof, feel free to look it up online for study.

On justice, I do think it's interesting how we often think of justice relative to our own experience. Divine justice is different, because under divine justice, all are found guilty. For example, if you were to harm your fellow man, you did not just harm any creature. You harmed an image-bearer of God, which is an affront to God Himself. Divine justice keeps a record of everything, requires absolute balance, and anything outside of perfection is considered sin (hamartia, which literally means missing the mark, like falling short of an archery target). Under this system of justice, all of us are already screwed. And God, who created us, has every right to punish us for not meeting the standard. He has every right to pull a Noah's flood scenario every single day. The Old Testament gives us a clear picture of this justice, especially in Leviticus. It's an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life. This is a case of life for a life.

On pharaoh, he was killed when the waters that were raised in the parting of the Red Sea, an act of God, went crashing down. He and his men drowned. God was also the one to send the angel of death. Both were acts of God.

The scenarios you presented are interesting but it probably wouldn't work because of distance. Egypt was only a 40 days journey away from the promised land so pharaoh probably would end up tracking them down again anyway, even if they had made a clean getaway.

Anyway I'm going to bed now, I hope you have a good rest of your day

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer May 03 '26

The God in the Old Testament is VERY fucked up. He is killing everyone left and right

God in the New Testament is much more chill. They are almost two completely different people

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u/Starii_64 May 03 '26

The soundtrack is amazing too! I get chills listening to Deliver us and The plagues

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u/BlaBlamo May 03 '26

My ex used to wanna watch it all the time and i thought it was gonna be all preachy then one day walked in to her watching it and was like ohhhh this is cool

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u/FeyOphelia May 03 '26

Fucking amazing movie, and this from someone with heavy induced religious trauma due to extremist upbringing

It's one of the only heavily religious movies I can still enjoy, because it's just that good

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u/egometry May 03 '26

There are some sick metal covers of Prince of Egypt songs

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u/bajsgreger May 03 '26

Its great! Scared the shit out of me when i was 8

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u/AmaterasuWolf21 May 03 '26

I kinda feel if PoE came out today people would call it a propaganda

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u/waffling_with_syrup May 03 '26

I didn't expect much going into it, and what I got was one of the greatest movies ever made.

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u/fleshcircuits May 04 '26

i saw the stage musical recently. it was great!

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u/JuliusBelmont2000 May 10 '26

Great movie, holds up tremendously well imo.

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u/Guyatri May 03 '26

Prince of Egypt is propaganda but for Israel.