"Your God kills children....?!"
"....how can you worship such a God as this?!"
Pharaoh's got a point.
Just saying.... *shrugs*
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"The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
-William Blake
Wonder if the hebrew slaves asked this question when their previous 'God' Pharaoh had the hebrew first-borns stabbed & drowned a few decades back? And Rameses did threaten to do the same thing, and probably would have done so if the final plague didn't beat him to it.
Just saying.
Rameses was a brutal tyrant in this *film* (not Scripture). No doubt.
But, he was a *man*...not a deity. Corrupt in every way. He killed and murdered for his own selfish reasons (much like the God of Moses). He didn't have a God to *tell* him to murder. He was a *man*, just a man. He didn't worship a God that did or would murder children.
That's why he was so flabbergasted and shocked that Moses worshipped such a bloodthirsty God, because Moses, his former brother in arms and rational loving and fair servant, condoned such actions.
Just as an aside, I believe in God...a *Loving* God. I believe in Yeshua. This film, though, really drives home the fact that in those times, the Israelites and their God were just as violent and barbarous as their contemporaries.
Remember, this is just my opinion. If you don't like it, *shrugs*, I'm sorry.
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"The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
-William Blake
My reply does not intend to argue about the morality of the tenth plague. I just commented on the irony that since the Pharaohs are worshiped as gods, then Seti- and probably Rameses if he got to fulfilling his threat- can be viewed, in a perspective, as a 'God that kills children.'
I am not ignoring Rameses' situation in the confrontation scene you described. But I have seen it before in earlier Exodus films. Ben Kingsley's MOSES (1996) and Dougary Scott's THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (2006) also featured an aftermath scene where a grief-stricken Egyptian father (Pharaoh Merneptah in the former mini-series/in the latter, a non-Pharoah-related-foster-brother of Egyptian Moses) carries his dead son to Moses, decrying the evil of his god.
No worries.😃
And yes, I do see the irony of the situation.
I see where you're coming from.
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"The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
-William Blake