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A couple of things. First, Ava DuVernay and Jennifer Lee, the screenwriter, were doing their best to hold what they saw to be the central message of the story while stripping it of its specifically Christian content: they wanted to make it universal.
It's not a terrible or un-L'Engleish desire if taken in a certain way: the scandal of her book when it came out was that she was willing to see truth, wisdom, in many of the world's traditions; in a key moment in the book, Jesus is listed as one of those who fought for the Light,
