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Posted on 11/16/2007 6:47:54 AM PST by NYer
The name of the evil power which the heroine combats is "The Magisterium."
Can you imagine a Hollywood film being made for children in which the sinister enemy is "The Rabbinate" or "The Ummah"?
I don’t think the comparison with Rowling is warranted. I’m not familiar with any of the books or movies in any detail (I saw one of the Harry Potter movies on a plane once). It didn’t strike me as having any particular religious motivation (or antitheistic motivation). This, on the other hand, was deliberately written as an antitheistic diatribe - the author has so much as said so.
We can only hope that the more the bias is evident, the poorer it does at the box office. You’d think Hollywood would’ve learned a lesson from Gibson’s Passion and The Chronicles of Narnia, but you never know.
I do agree that boycotting (official) adds fuel to the fire. I will beboycotting this film because the author of this series is evil. I will be praying that this film does not become a blockbuster, I hope other christians will join in on this silent boycott.
I already have, and I’ve explained to my wife why we can’t go see the movie. (She didn’t know about it, but it looks like the type of movie she enjoys.)
As people see the movie (unsuspecting, most likely) you’ll see more and more in print about it.
Had I not known about this thru FR, I probably wouldn't know of any reason not to send them from whatever information I could glean from reviews, etc.
On a local basis, friends should tell friends why it is a bad idea to see this movie and local pastors should mention in it passing from their pulpits on a community to community basis.
We live in the internet age - there is no need to give the MSM an excuse to run puff pieces on this "poor oppressed movie."
Good article. Very well written and reasoned. Thanks for posting it.
Now, it may prove damaging. Folks may not listen to the warnings against this anti-Christian movie. With the “star-power” and special effects involved, this movie has the potential to be a blockbuster along the lines of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”
And we know the anti-Christian forces in the world will do all in their power to promote it.
I’m not looking forward to this.
Watching his version of god get killed by a breeze in the third book was pretty bad. I found nothing redeeming in them, and tossed them upon completion. Until near the very end, the reader is led to believe that the fight against god is another trick being played on the characters.
And yea verily, it comes to pass. Pullman is genuinely, explicitly, overtly and proudly anti-theistic in general --- the children actually kill God in the final book, or the repellent figure who is obviously set up as God--- anti-Christian in particular--- and if Christianity is the target, Catholicism is the bull's-eye.
The "His Dark Materials" trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; and The Amber Spyglass) is clever, appealing stuff, and just as anti-Catholic is "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is anti-Jewish.
Also, unfortunately, in my estimation Philip Pullman is a much more skillful writer than J.K. Rowling.
So what are we to do? Cry out, and who will believe us?
The author of this article has it right: no picket lines. No press releases. Contact friends, neighbors, and family under the radar and warn them off from seeing it. Then be prepared to start up casual conversations and evvangelize/catechize your fellow Dilberts at the photocopy machine who thought Golden Compass was just the next Narnia.
The Secular Socialists know, for now, that they must operate stealthily and under cover. Some are more vehement and have been tricked by their SS lefthanded circlejerks that their viewpoint is a majority held opinion, and they slip up and expose themselves.
But, for the most part, all you’re going to hear is a denial of the war on Christianity and traditionalism, all while they are stealthily conducting it.
Going from book to movie is tricky. The bait and switch might work in the book, translated to screen it may make the whole trilogy looking like regurgitated Stalinist propaganda.
And, sadly, so it will be.
The reviewer does offer some good advice regarding the way Christians should handle this film.
It is, in the sense that Rowling's book served to inure children to the idea of wizards and witches as protagonists. The next logical, diabolical step should have been obvious to everyone.
At the time of the original HP controversy, I noted that HP represents the tip of the occult iceberg in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy aisle in the Young Adult section of Barnes and Noble. I even quoted from Pullman at the time.
Rowling and Pullman are serving as useful idiots in the plan of a famous and nefarious intelligence.
Well, I grew up reading Dragonlance novels. (I still read them whenever I wander through that section of the bookstore.) In those stories, there were plenty of wizards and dragons, but there were also deities. (The wizards believed in and actually served their gods. I suppose a wizard without a god had no power.) I also remember a “dark era” in the Dragonlance world where the gods had left them. Those sorts of novels certainly don’t seem to be pushing any agenda.
I admit I don’t read as much as I used to, but I don’t necessarily think that the “occult” has as strong a foothold in books as you do.
I have to disagree on that! Given how web sites like Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, PowerLine, Captain's Quarters, etc. can quickly energize the conservative base, and how both Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly are well-aware of the intentions of Pullman's trilogy, people will be aware of the real intentions of Pullman's work and by the time the movie approaches public release in early December 2007 there will be a groundswell of criticism and protest over the movie.
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