Is Gothic Horror as a genre a Protestant nostalgia for the

I'd be interested to hear more about this.

Do you guys remember the guy who connected Hamlet, Byronic heroes, and Christopher Nolan's Batman all to a satanic conspiracy against the Catholic church?

Essentially saying that they and others were diabolical works trying to trap the Protestant individual in an isolated struggle against evil, ultimately undermining Christianity and destroying the individual. Meaning that they are supposed to be homages to medieval knightly faith, but so distorted that they become parodies and self-destruct.

I don't believe a word of it, but it had a lot of poetic value.

>>9438077
I doubt it.
The Catholic worldview has the supernatural all about, but it is rarely horrifying, a contrast to Gothic Horror. The tendency of female Gothic writers to go to The Supernatural Explained indicates to me that the genre is more about Protestant culture.

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>>9438110
I must see this. Somebody deliver plz

>>9438179
From what I remember, he was posting on another forum with an avatar of a Renaissance Englishman, and he connected the Illuminati and the Alice in Wonderland movies to this. The Queen was supposed to be some kind of representation of the satanic Queen Elizabeth.

>>9438814
...As a matter of fact, I think Tim Burton was a big deal to him in general. Something about Edward Scissorhands representing the Protestant soul in its state of isolation.

I sure don't know but it's an interesting theory.
Would read a paper on.

>>9438077
the sad people caught up in the protestant/catholic wars tend to see everything in terms of .. protestant/catholic conflict. they'd look a the tribal genocide in Rwanda and try to work out which side was catholic and which was protestant. they can't see ants fighting off wasps without making that connection.

Rebellion against puritan morality, see Carmilla