Ayu and Religion

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I don't believe Ayumi is christian or catholic. This is an excerpt from an article translated by Isaac Hiew:

To welcome the next millennium, ayu already released her new single, “M” on 13th December. She forgot about the motive of this song, but it’s about a friend told her a story about Mary, before that, she thought that Mary was a saint. But after the story, she know she was wrong since Mary was also a normal female too. And ayu wants to write about original elements of a female that won’t change by time. Therefore, this song was composed with lyrics-music. (Lyrics first, then music).

She found out about Maria from a story a friend told her. If she was christian or catholic she would already know all about her.

I think Ayu is interested in characters like Maria and Jeanne D'Arc for two reasons:
1) She is attracted to them as female 'role models' or examples of unique, strong, etc women.
2) Like other Japanese she is fascinated by western things. For example, 'christian' style weddings, celebration of christmas, and wearing of crosses are very popular in Japan even though most people don't understand what they mean or believe in them. They just do it because it is trendy, like using engrish slang.