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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.
The important detail isn't which exact term for Jewish scripture will most closely match the old testament in Christianity. The important detail is that "old testament" as a name is meaningless in reference to Jewish scripture, because the term only has meaning if you consider the new testament as equally valid scripture.
So they're arguing that referring to Moses in a Christian context is "appropriating" Jewish culture, while doing the exact same thing themselves in the exact same comment. If they actually cared at all they'd have known that using any Jewish name for the scripture would've served their point better than "old testament".
As for the Christmas thing, it doesn't make sense to call a Christmas movie Jewish because if you actually follow Judaism then the birth of Christ isn't something worth celebrating to you. Any Christ as the savior narrative goes directly against what Judaism believes about Christ. And any Christmas movie without Christ as a savior narrative, might as well be considered non-religious.