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Let me just start by saying, I do not want this to turn into a religion debate! But to me in Bambi it truely remids me of Ecclesiastics 3:1-8. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about listen to There is a Season by the Byrds .

Then there's the common theme of self-sacrifice in Disney films, and need I mention the who's the prime example of that theme?

Gurgi from The Black Cauldron?

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...or maybe Jesus?

Islam is a religion that has always included a great deal of hate. Most of the world that is now Muslim became such with the threat of death if conversion was refused.

A movie no one has mentioned is Johnny Tremain. It explicitly quotes Scripture a number of times. However, most people are talking about Biblical themes in Disney films, not Biblical quotations, so I will do the same.

The films Walt Disney made almost always had Biblical themes. Walt actually had a background in Christianity. His father was a deacon (and occasional substitute preacher) and I believe he sent his daughters to Sunday School if I am not mistaken. Consequently, Walt's philosophies were heavily based in Christianity. Disney was a modernist: a philosophy that was born out of Christianity. I am not saying Walt Disney was a Christian--I am not certain of that one way or the other--but he certainly thought a lot like one.

Of course, abrahamic monotheism isn't the worst... there's always Scientology,

Pollyanna was about a girl who was able to make a huge difference in her community by giving love. This follows the Biblical creed to "love your neighbor as yourself." Another example is Mary Poppins. Disney loved Mary Poppins so much because of the message it shared. He was passionate about promoting his philosophy of life. The song "Feed the Birds" is metaphorical about how easy it is to love someone. I think the main character in the story is George Banks who learns about loving and caring for his family. The principles in this story were certainly born out a Christian perspective.

Please realize I am not saying you have to be a Christian to love. I am saying, however, that of all the world's most historical religions, it is Christianity that has had the biggest emphasis on love. (Judaism does as well, but Judaism is by nature a religion focused more on a particular ethnic group and has not spread among other ethnic groups in the same way some other religions have.) Islam is a religion that has always included a great deal of hate. Most of the world that is now Muslim became such with the threat of death if conversion was refused. Hinduism is not concerned with reaching out and helping people. A person who is suffering, for the Hindu, is doing so as a result of bad karma and they can't and shouldn't be helped for fear of interfering with the gods. So you see, the principles of loving everyone are heavily based in Christianity. That is why love is so central to North and South American and European culture (among a few others).

You are evidently not familiar with some of the anti-Christian and anti-Jewish propaganda that is being expressed to children in some of these Muslim countries. If you went into Iran and started telling people you were Jewish, you wouldn't stay alive very long. To a Muslim you are an "infidel."

You are evidently not familiar with some of the anti-Christian and anti-Jewish propaganda that is being expressed to children in some of these Muslim countries. If you went into Iran and started telling people you were Jewish, you wouldn't stay alive very long. To a Muslim you are an "infidel."