Christian Bale has a new movie coming
out uh Exodus gods and Kings it's Ridley
Scott movie I'll watch almost any Ridley
Scot movie it's a Christian Bale movie
ditto so he did an interview with ABC's
Nightline again I know where this story
is going kind of know the story of Moses
but I'm sure that they've depicted in an
interesting way uh but Christian Bale
wanted to add to that and made some
fascinating comments let's watch well
ask most people who Moses is and they
would probably say he parted the Red Sea
but as actor Christian Bale who plays
him in the new movie Exodus he has a
very different answer when asked that
you know absolutely seen as a freedom
fighter Hebrews but terrorist in terms
of the Egyptian Empire what happened to
Moses if he arrived today drones would
be sent out after him right now uh it's
almost certainly true right I mean he
Unleashed 10 plagues on
Egypt he he killed through God the
firstborn of every person in Egypt
including the Pharaoh you think they
wouldn't call him a terrorist of course
they would right but you saw there that
this is being played on Fox and Friends
so my guess is that fox and friends are
not going to like this so they bring on
a priest to tell us how wrong he is
except the priest doesn't really do that
let's watch so what do you think Moses a
terrorist well I think he said in
relationship to the Egyptian Empire and
the Egyptians were holding the Hebrews
as slaves so maybe in from their
perspective Ive of the slave holders
well then these bad slaves would be
terrorists against their empire maybe
but you know I think but in today's
terms you know and then the Drone thing
it makes it sound like you know the the
big bad guys are the ones who use drones
and of course that would be the US and
the West against terrorists so I don't
like the comparison put it that way yeah
sure you don't that's why he made it
wanted to make you a little
uncomfortable about what our Empire is
doing and it's an interesting question
right but of course Fox and fr they're
like no no no terrorists we don't mean
it like in the old days we mean like the
new terrorists that are the really bad
guys not like Moses who was a good
terrorist the like the Arabs remember
Moses was Jewish and we're on the side
of Israel and the and the people the and
it says in the Bible we're with the the
the god of Israel that not the Arabs
Arabs are the bad guys Muslims are the
bad guys not like today's terrorists
okay and the drones we do the drones to
we're by definition the good guys I like
how a priest there is in favor of
drones aren't priests supposed to be in
favor of protecting life I mean for
example the Catholic church is against
the death penalty I'm pretty sure they
wouldn't generally be in favor of
killing people extra judicially as we've
done here we've killed American citizens
that were abroad without a trial we
killed a 16-year-old without a
trial okay but fox has found one priest
who's kind of on their side like yeah
yeah I mean drones now are great
terrorists now are terrible when Moses
was a terrorist that but that that was
awesome okay so uh a little bit more
from this do you believe that that's
fair to what Moses did uh no um he
certainly wasn't thinking about drones
and I think he was yes a freedom fighter
no doubt but a freedom fighter called by
God to go up again against an Empire
that was keeping the Hebrew people
enslaved so but when you keep the
Palestinians occupied no no that's okay
that's no no we were freeing Jews at the
time so that totally different totally
different okay now I'm also amused by
the idea that there would even be a
conversation as to how the Egyptians
would characterize Mo Moses let's just
quickly go over the 10 plagues that he
Unleashed on their ass uh blood where
all of the water including the Nile turn
into blood even if you dug into the
ground you would get more blood coming
out of the water I don't know how we
would view that frogs that's a curious
plague but the entire land was covered
by frogs no matter where you turn there
was nothing but frogs same thing
happened with bugs now this is an
amusing part of the story uh every like
on literally half of these the Pharaoh
says okay okay yeah you got me you got
me gu all right man just Moses please
call off God I'm so tired of these frogs
and and then I'll let your people go and
God say Moses goes okay God do you want
come on he says it's okay let the frogs
go okay and the frogs go away and the
pharaoh's like ha just kidding I'm still
gonna enslave you so then then God
brings the bugs and then after the bugs
he's like okay no no all right Moses
seriously this time I'm being serious
I'm going to let you go if you get rid
of the bugs this goes on and on who
believes this a child would in no it's
even worse it's even worse Jank because
Pharaoh wants to let him go but God
hardens his heart and he changes his
mind then what's the point why are you
toying with us okay and so uh then we of
course have wild animals they come in
and stamp all over everything stamped
all over everything they kill all of the
um a lot of people also the Harvest Etc
pestilence also kills a lot of folks
boils people start to boil a line their
skin is boiling right
um you think that if maybe modern a
terrorists Unleashed chemical agents
that made our skin boil that we wouldn't
call them terrorists if they said no no
it's okay I just want you to let my
people go I want you to let the Arabs go
the Palestinians go the Muslims go
whatever you want to call the right-
Wingers the militia men go it's okay
that's why I released Anthrax that made
your bub skin boil we're okay right I
mean you wouldn't call him terrorist and
then of course there was hail hail
doesn't sound too bad except that a
explain in the Bible that it killed
everything it touched so if you happen
to be outside and not in shelter you
were dead okay okay more people dead
then of course the locus and then
Darkness oh you think darkness is your
ally I was born in
it and then the death of the firstborn
which I'm pretty sure would CL classify
as terrorism as well but then the rest
of the Bibles also soaked in Blood and
filled with genocide so Moses isn't
alone but if you tell Fox and Friends
what's actually in the Bible their heads
explode so maybe we should do more
movies about the Bible