Posted on 11/12/2007 7:42:12 PM PST by pillut48
"In Lyra's world, a person's soul lives on the outside of their body, in the form of a daemon--an animal spirit that accompanies them through life. A child's daemon can change shape, assuming all the forms that a child's potential inspires; but as a person ages, their daemon gradually settles into one form, according to their character and nature...In our world, it is possible that people that people have daemons as well, only they are invisible. If you would like to learn more about your daemon, and create a daemon avatar to take out into the world with you, select 'Meet Your Daemon'."
(Excerpt) Read more at goldencompassmovie.com ...
More info at snopes.com
Shame on Nicole Kidman for starring in this.
According to the Snopes.com site the movie has been watered down considerably and it’s a tossup whether the books are anti-religious in general or anti-christian in particular.
Narnia and Middle Earth are one thing but I never quite knew what to make of the Wrinkle in Time/Wind in the Door/Swiftly Tilting Planet series, but as love and self-sacrifice figure heavily in them I’d guess they get a thumbs-up.
Another sign the end times are here.
Is Matt Daemon in it?
These books are very bad. No one should let their children read these books or see the movie. The author is consciously promoting evil as good, and denigrating Christianity as the cause of the world's problems. This is not harmless fun.
another problem with this movie, from what I hear is they don’t come out with the blatant anti christian stuff in this movie,so when you warn others they will tell you they didnt see that...however if the rest of the books are made then it will be seen.
I read the Golden Compass Trilogy when it first came out. It is a vile attack on Christianity, all the viler because the author hides his purposes until the end. It is purposely designed to lead children astray.
The ultimate message is that God is a tyrant (based on Blake’s Nobodaddy, I would say) who must be overthrown, and that the answer to all our problems is to indulge in sex and self-love.
Not suitable for children AT ALL. Highly subversive.
Why even give the trailer site hits?
Who is the author and what is their agenda?
Yes, in the first book of the trilogy it is hardly noticeable, but it keeps leading readers down the road until it becomes explicit at the end of the third novel.
The would be the recently departed Madeline L’Engle.
She certainly had her fans here.
It looks like a stinker and another in a long line of Kidman bombs.
These books were written by an atheist. They are deliberately anti-Christian and anti-religious.
I actually liked The Invasion. I might be the only one.
For sure they’re anti-God. This particular story, it is my understanding, is about killing God and spreading an atheistic message.
I have read all three books. In order to save humanity, they have to depend on the evil pair from the first book (who turn out to be good from the author’s point of view.) Why are they good? They are on a mission to end tyranny by killing god (who is so old and weak that he lives in a glass case to protect him from the wind) and his lt. Lyra’s gift with the alethiometer is grace from the other angels who are helping in the rebellion against heaven.
This is the first set of books that I could find nothing redeeming in them. I tossed them in the trash and I never do that. I go to see every fantasy that comes out... but not this one. Anyone that I can warn against it will hear so they can decide on their own if it is something they can see.
I think you might be the only one who saw it.
There was me, my date and maybe 15 other people in the theater. So that's atleast 17.
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