I think the dialogue you showed is entirely appropriate for those characters at that point in history. They would be expected to take religion seriously.
As to an After-School teaching moment, let me give you an example of something I hate, hate, hated: in the 1994 movie of Little Women Marmee says a line about not confining her daughters in corsets: "Feminine weaknesses and fainting spells are the direct result of our confining young girls to the house, bent over their needlework, and restrictive corsets."
No. Just... no. It's just put in there to somehow make things seem more 'modern'. You'd be doing the same thing if you inserted a lecture about homophobia into a Merchant of Venice story.
And since you were doing a remix of the original, in a manner of speaking, you're entitled and expected to narrow your focus and not try to cover everything that was contained in the original.
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As to an After-School teaching moment, let me give you an example of something I hate, hate, hated: in the 1994 movie of Little Women Marmee says a line about not confining her daughters in corsets: "Feminine weaknesses and fainting spells are the direct result of our confining young girls to the house, bent over their needlework, and restrictive corsets."
No. Just... no. It's just put in there to somehow make things seem more 'modern'. You'd be doing the same thing if you inserted a lecture about homophobia into a Merchant of Venice story.
And since you were doing a remix of the original, in a manner of speaking, you're entitled and expected to narrow your focus and not try to cover everything that was contained in the original.