Thread:KatnissEverqueen/@comment-1672596-20131227082459/@comment-1672596-20131228130134

KatnissEverqueen wrote: Thank you for sharing those schooling details with me. I am 34 years old, but my devotion to/association with the Ste. Therese of Lisieux helps keep me so young that I am at times mistaken for a teenager. I can assure you that Christianity received a lot more support from mainstream society before the Turn of the Millennium; 9/11 really did change everything.

I think Belle is too intelligent to be an atheist, as that would be coming to a conclusion based on far-too-limited information. I also think that - after Elsa - Ariel is my favourite Disney Princess; after all, in the original story she was all about becoming Christian!

It is an unspoken fact that sexual equality is a peculiarity of Christian societies. Anti-Christian societies only grant women whatever freedoms and privileges are necessary to make us useful. For example, China, the Red "Dragon" of the East, may employ women in the workforce and even in lower-ranking government positions, but it is also a realm where children are aborted simply for being female. It is through the Hand of God, and as much through the loving tolerance of men as the ambition of women, that women's rights have seen such progress in the West. Women who associate Christianity with repression have been deceived as surely as if the Serpent were whispering in their ear (and perhaps he is!)

Thanks to Toy Story and how they handled favorites, I don't really ascribe to favorites for anything, not unless I really want to hurt someone.

And maybe there is the remote possibility that Belle's not actually either an atheist, an agnostic, or even a deist, but an actual Christian or possibly Jewish. However, considering that literally the only characters who explicitly mentioned anything pertaining to the Christian religion (aside from the aforementioned "wedding", the villagers also said "Praise the Lord" during the Mob Song) were the villagers, and they were pretty much treated as the bad guys in the film, I'm not sure there's much more to suggest that she is religious at all. Plus, Belle also seemed to hate having to live in the village (the Belle song and its reprise made that very clear with her complaints about the provincial life), which gives further credence to Belle not being religious (I doubt a fellow Christian would basically complain about her own flock as being "provincial." I most certainly won't, and I basically live and serve in absolute fear and dread of God thanks to my accidentally seeing the climax of Raiders of the Lost Ark at a very young age. And stuff like the Architect scene from The Matrix Reloaded [which was explicitly stated to be a reference to God the Father, and not in a good way], and the Patriots contact scene from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty doesn't help my views, either.). Again, maybe she's not an atheist, or an agnostic, or a deist, maybe she actually is religious, but that doesn't seem to be what the film is conveying. Maybe if they actually had Belle being shown wedded to Adam in the film, there wouldn't be too much ambiguity for whether she was religious or not. Geez, at least Hunchback of Notre Dame actually tried to show both the positives and negatives of Christianity. The few explicit references to Christianity in Beauty and the Beast pretty much came from the bad guys, which doesn't leave me with too much confidence in what the writers were implying about the Christian religion in that film.

And I heard of the stories of Red China, and am disgusted with their practices. They were also communist, Maoist variety, but still Communists derived from Karl Marx. I have a seething hate for communists, socialists, and atheists because of what they did to us, specifically targeting us for extermination. I won't kill them, though, as God made clear I shouldn't. But I will make them convert to Christianity, even if its by force. Conversion is considered force anyways, even if we simply talk in a calm voice, so I don't see any reason to deny forced conversion, especially when Jesus himself pretty much advocated it with the "spread the Good News to the four corners", instead of basically telling us to not interfere with other affair even for his own sake, even if it means extinction for Christianity, in a form of nihilism.