Was Moses a Terrorist?

[RPM]

I was watching the Ten Commandments last night. During the scene where Moses is talking with Pharoh about the plagues, my wife looks at me and says "Moses is a terrorist!!!".

My nose still hurts from the beer I snarfed out.

[valerief]

1. Moses supposes his toeses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously. nt

[sutz12]

2. Of course not....

He was a "freedom fighter."

:sarcasm:

[stray cat]

3. Moses was practicing free speech

ie like warning about a hurricane

[BayCityProgressive]

4. guess we still haven't learned the lesson

if you use people like slaves you will get burned.

[will_in_chicago]

5. Sadly, no

In the end, tyrannies are unstable. Slaves rebel and empires crumble. I think it was a liberal Republican named Abraham Lincoln who said you can't hold another man down without lowering yourself.

[ComerPerro]

6. I know you're joking, but in a serious answer, I would say no becasue

even though Moses is making a threat to exercise what is God's will (as terrorists supposedly do), Moses is not manifesting the destruction and violence himself, but instead let's God exercise His will. That would be the difference.


One thing always bothered me about Moses though. Why did slavery only become wrong when he suddenly realized he was a Hebrew, and not an Egyptian?

[Rosemary2205]

7. Most people become more enlightened over time.

I know someone who was so anti-abortion that she defended Eric Rudolph blowing up abortion clinics. She had a medical situation happen to her where the most loving thing to do for herself, her family and her baby was to abort IN THE THIRD TRIMESTER. When it happened to her she learned something new and within weeks completely changed her viewpoint.

People grow. People learn.

[chelsea0011]

8. Naw! He was just speaking through god like Pat Robertson.

Why kill the messenger? And I LOVE that movie. Everything about it is so over-the-top great. "OOOOOOOOh, Moses".

[nealmhughes]

9. Moses, shmoses, take a look at Joshua!

Now he did some smiting!