Exodus is the single most JEWISH tale in the entire bible, and although I am agnostic myself, as a person of Jewish heritage, I found his mindbogglingly offensive.
Offensive? Why?
Christians associate themselves with the story of Exodus too, since the story also occurs in the Christian Bible. A person who writes that "atheists shouldn't be directing christian films" (in the context of this movie) is referring to that and is probably not aware that Jewish Scripture is where Exodus originates from; so yes, that person would indeed be ignorant (in the sense of that he simply doesn't know any better)*. But is that a reason to feel very offended?
Movies like this are for a very significant (if not major) part aimed at and marketed towards the Christian demographic of the American and European population (i.e. the filmmakers/producers are hoping to make their profit from Westerners with a Christian background, who'd be interested in another movie adaptation of a Bible story), so from that standpoint this movie can be called a "Christian film". In a similar vein, The Prince Of Egypt (1998) is called a children's film, even though children have really nothing to do with the story.
By the way, Christianity is of Jewish heritage too (or at least the first Christians were).
[*] Another argument is that the person who wrote that thread is probably a Christian himself, and that he wouldn't want to pretend to speak also for Jewish people. All he knows is that he, as a Christian, feels that the story of Exodus shouldn't be adapted by a director who has an atheistic view on God. But he is not in a position to say "atheists shouldn't be directing Jewish films", because he doesn't know how Jewish people feel about an atheist director making this movie; that's why he worded his complaint in the (arguably unfortunate, clumsy and/or ignorant) way he did.
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Keiko Matsui & Carl Anderson - "A Drop of Water"
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