Religion or LGBT is a false dichotomy and shit like this just fuels division.
Fuck you Disney
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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Really hope Jesus makes his comeback via an appearance on RuPaul. The bible does say it will be unexpected.
The stories in the bible happened long ago. There arent any prophecies reaching into our age.
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Yup. Disney doesn't stand for anything. They just pander to wherever they think the money is.
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“Openly” as if Christians aren’t the dominant cultural and political group in the USA
Yeah, "demonstrably" or "obnoxiously" would probably be much more accurate..
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It'll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like
- Luke 16:13 "You cannot serve both God and money."
- Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor"
- Matthew 5:39 "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
- Matthew 5:44 "love your enemies"
So there's no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?
One of my personal favorites:
- Luke 12:46-48:
46 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers. 47 And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, 48 but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of [d]a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.
Jesus sure loved his slaves, huh? Gives you guidelines on how to beat them. Told people to "love your enemies," but clearly people you own don't deserve that courtesy. He hung out with prostitutes, but was never able to disavow the practice of owning other humans as property? Kind of unacceptable imo.
The canonical Bible (the supposed ordained word of god) also include's Paul's further interpretation of Jesus' teachings on slaves in...
- Ephesians 6:5–8:
5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, 8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.
Oof.
Jesus sure loved his slaves, huh? Gives you guidelines on how to beat them.
That passage you quoted is not giving guidelines on how to treat slaves, it is a parable using slaves as an example. Not saying the Bible is totally anti slavery, the second passage being pretty disgusting.
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What if I am offended by Christian characters, something wildly inappropriate for young impressionable minds?
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Better headline, "Disney toes the line for Nazi scum, and Walt himself was a Nazi sympathiser even after Kristallnacht. EPCOT was his fascistic wet dream. Fuck Disney throughout time."
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Disney be like: "Friendship ended with rainbow capitalism, now christian capitalism is my best friend."
a shift in conservative culture
independent poll that shows 34% being against a trans character
conservative terrorists are the greatest threat domestically
I guess Nazis saying "I'll fucking kill you and your kids you woke traitor" and then Americans being afraid to participate in democracy does qualify as a shift towards conservativism.
Wouldn't be surprised if the Trump administration threatened Disney into ditching it.
Let's be real no threat is needed. If this made them win craploads of money they would be plastering Disney world with transexual parades every second of the day
The fact that they are not doing it says a lot
This is the first openly Christian character to feature in a Disney film since 2007's Bridge to Terabithia.
So it's not really the first then, is it?
An exclusive poll for Newsweek conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies in July found that 34 percent of viewers disapproved of Disney's attempt to add more LGBTQ+ topics to its content.
This I never understand. If Disney is a for profit company, why would they not listen to their majority? Aren't they leaving money on the table like this? "Well, because of Trump." Yeah but how does that matter, specifically? (The article does not go in to detail about that) Is Trump going to compensate them for it??
This article isn't very well written. Many such cases, sadly.
Isn't Captain America Christian too? Like, he openly says there's only one God, he goes to church etc.
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The State Religion, I guess.
it was only a matter of time. Ms Marvel had openly Muslim characters and Turning Red had Buddhists.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Chronicles of Narnia
Crazy how they just gave up on the Narnia series. You'd think the original YA novel series would have been easy to punch up and deliver as AAA Cinema slop. Instead the whole thing fell apart inside three films (the first two of which were fairly well received, and riding tight on the LotR blockbuster adaptation, to boot).
I guess it was just too many characters, too much technical expertise, and too much hard work. Far easier to release a bunch of Sound of Freedom tier psycho-sexual thrillers. Something you can film with a handy cam, a fist full of confused child actors, and a dime bag of columbian white to get Jim Caviezel zooted out of his gord.
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boo Disney. Spineless.
Spineless? They're rainbow capitalists through and through. Fuck them.
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Disney has a history of gay censorship, and seem to have Christian movies every year à la Christmas
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I feel like these corps did a calculation and figured out everyone has an excuse to not boycott companies like Disney except right wingers who have become exceptionally good at the boycott.
In my experience those people will typically boycott brands as a group meanwhile my friends find every excuse in the book to support the major corps hurting them. Even aoc went to Florida during covid. And people wonder why they win.
Yup. Leftists Don't have that insane person conviction. Dip shits need to learn to boycott
This leftist has boycotted everything Sony since they bricked my PC with their rootkit in the early 2000s (and I really go out of my way to make sure nothing Sony related comes in my house, not their music, movies, games, electronics, nor their camera lenses) I only slipped up once in the past 20 or so years, when I purchased a second hand Sony Walkman mp3 player. Thing broke within 3 months of use, it's now a constant reminder that I really need to keep boycotting Sony.
I've started boycotting Amazon (including but not limited to Kindle, Audible, Prime and Twitch) and Disney since this year.
But I'm only one person.
I have shown myself to be capable of long term boycotts and I don't intend to let up. I've added Amazon's websites to my Pihole's blacklist.
But I also don't pirate their stuff. As far as I'm concerned their TV shows and movies and such don't exist on this planet.
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They continue to throw money at JK Rowling at every opportunity and they'll do the same for Disney.
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Nothing seems to be holy to these 'Christians'. Some are making terrible jokes about all Muslims having to deal with the consequences of hell, because of their fake believe - Others are even joking about the holocaust.. why do you even need a book if you have no morals?
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I am curious as to which flavor of Christianity they are portraying 🤔
Supply side Jesus, presumably.
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Well I did feel bad about pirating Agatha All Along but not anymore.
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