When I want a reality check, I think of the world, and I think of the mainly worldly but good hearted people out there who might think religion is a load of tosh, but 'not like' a devout atheist however. I find it hard to believe that all the children who happened to watch Beauty and the Beast are now destined for hell, destined to promoted homosexuality. Or that those who watch scary movies, are now destined for hell, or destined to promote dark agendas. That's a pretty morbid, and downright unloving view. That is the thing about religion and what I see it do to some people, suddenly everything has to be polarised into black and white. While things 'out there' and 'outside of our mind' can tempt us, isn't it our perception and personal views which become the temptation, and become the point of sinning? If more than see the 'good' in a movie, a person is locked into observing the 'bad', well isn't that kind of sinning in a sense?
If you are walking down the street and someone is dressed somewhat provocatively, doesn't this kind of polarised thinking make one see the 'provocative' attire, and not the person underneath? As in, before you even know that person, you have already judged them for the outside?
Out of this equation of calculative thinking based on duality (this is good that is bad), which as I have observed leads to a somewhat irrational, 'superior' thinking, isn't the more important thing in all of this, love?
It's pretty obvious in the world that 'bringing up the negatives' actually makes good advertising for it. While trying to keep people from evil, rather it is promoted. Disney probably thanks a lot of people for doing the opposite of what they thought they would do. All they had to say was 'exclusive gay scene' and the temptation was set for those type of polarised thinkers who think mostly about staying away from sin, rather than love. And that is true.
What I am saying anyway, if I get to the point about love being most important is; If we focus on the good things, if we focus on love, if we focus on teaching love to those around us, and our children, then maybe they won't even be interested in such things. And if they watch a movie that happens to have such things that are questionable, they will NOT be lured into thinking any ungodly thought about it (which is then being lured into temptation). So rather than use fear, analysis, or judgement (these are all mind/self induced perspectives) against 'the bad things', focus on the opposite and on the good things. To me, I see many Christians make this mistake when they get too deeply into the analyse of 'being a good Christian'. All the humble kind people I've known in my life, were not always Christian - they just were. I'm not going to tell myself, ever, to reject people just because they aren't Christian, or to reject a movie because it wasn't made in a Christian manner - it still took a lot of people just like me and you, living their life, doing their job, a cleaner, a voice actor, an artist, an animator, a musician to make these movies. I love Christian movies, and if I'm honest I have seen a much bigger influence of Christianity on movies and music these days and that's a good thing.
And taking Beauty and the Beast here for example of perspective, I've not seen one person mention the fact that Emma Watson's feminist agenda in the movie was to desexualise and empower women. So to me, I want to see the movie sometime to see what a) the good points of this are and whether they are true, and b) since people have blown the whole gay thing out of proportion without having seen the movie, I want to see whether that is as bad as what people say without having ever seen the movie, but having easily been taken in by what people have written or said in media or online. Maybe if Emma Watson's agenda was good, well evil often wants to take the focus off that and put it on something else, right? And who better to lure into that change of focus, but those who focus on the evils of the world so much? I believe those who focus on love more than they focus on evil, are the people who change the world. Those who focus on evil, well, the Muslims aren't they the ones who live by those rules day to day in the middle east? Expression of love can be very much illegal in many parts. Is that the world you want, one of absolute suppression? This is what happens when you take Jesus out of the equation.
Push one enemy away (so to speak), and another enemy will always take their place. Convert an enemy using love (and all love comes from God) and you have one less enemy in everyone's world.
