God nearly cocked up.

I watched this when it was originally broadcast in 1977, I was 13 years old. I just started re watching it on Sky Arts and I will admit straight up that I am a life long Atheist (from a religious family) but, enjoy religious movies when they are well done, such as both versions of The Ten Commandments. This is a beautiful production scripted by some great writers, directed by a great director and the cast is superb, heck, even the music is divine. However, even great writers must have trouble when the source material is so poorly written. My beef is with Mary's pregnancy, why did God not tell Joseph until after he was told that God's law decree Mary and the baby's father, whoever he was thought to be, be stoned to death, if God were so powerful and infallible he would have told everyone instead of just the 14 year old girl he impregnated, or at least Joseph and the Chief Rabbi. I sat there and thought 'plot hole!' Besides, some loving God who decreed a girl in that situation be stoned to death along with her unborn child, even if she were the victim of rape.

I am a four eyed evil genius.