Posted on 11/30/2007 8:06:34 PM PST by Coleus
True. Our Sunday School Director warned us about it, thank Heavens. Then we had to warn the grandparents.
I work part time selling tickets at the local movie theater. If I am asked, I will say “I will not see the movie because I have read the books, and I found them to be evil.”
I wonder how well this will do? Although these are cynical times, Anti-Christian polemics don’t prosper at Christmas.
I’ve emailed friends and family and warned them about New Line’s bait and switch.
I don’t expect it to do particularly well.
Golden Compass is rated PG-13. Most of the fantasy stuff like Narnia, IIRC, was mostly rated PG. The rating alone will scare parents off.
My 13 year old daughter received three emails last week from friends telling her the movie is anti-Christian. I know she’s passed it on to several others.
Maybe we could have a DVD, watch it, the burn the “X Mas” tree, just in time so we can spend money for Kwanzaa?
Ok, in all seriousness, I cannot remember a Christmas season, that was so void of any movie that people were actually excited to see something. I’ll bet, this turns out to be the absolute worst Hollywood box office Christmas since at least the mid 90s.
And of course, mark my words, they’ll blame it on the consumer being tapped out. Not on the fact that the movies were boring, stupid, or hateful like this one.
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Open-mindedness? Like this?
The author of "The Golden Compass," Philip Pullman, is an atheist who despises C. S. Lewis and his much-beloved Narnia series. "I thought they were loathsome," he said of those books, "full of bullying and sneering, propaganda, basically, on behalf of a religion whose main creed seemed to be to despise and hate people unlike yourself."
He knows it's a Christian allegory. That's his opinion of Christianity.
The atheists sure have been busy lately.
I had no idea. I was going to go see this (Mostly for the analysis of the animation) but I am going to pass.
It sounds annoyingly strident in its apparent mission of deconstructing Christianity, if the critic is to be believed.
“Maybe we could have a DVD, watch it, the burn the “X Mas” tree, just in time so we can spend money for Kwanzaa?”
X Mas tree? You are so 1960s! Today it’s the Holiday Tree, the Winter Tree, or my personal favorite this season, the Family Tree.
Even more reason to keep praying this behemoth bombs. If it fails, they won’t do the other two books after this one.
BTW (spoiler here): in the later books they kill “god”.
How about... The Satan tree, sponsored by McDonalds, Coke, and Walmart. Please give us all your money, so we don’t have to fire you, destroy the economy? Yes your job sucked, but it was all you had...
Sick twisted world...
I was surprised by her role in it and her comments. I know, I shouldn't have been. It doesn't surprise me that it's aimed at children at Christmas. But as good atheists, why would they care when it's released, except if their effort is not aimed at entertaining via movie, but rather slamming Christianity at Christmas? Jmho. Flyers have appeared in my church. I was actually surprised, given my area's weak response to the occult overtones ignored or whitewashed by some local Catholics in the Potter movies. And the relative acceptance of the Da Vinci Code. (Yes, by some clergy and educators.)
I know - the public schools can send their grade schoolers as a group during school hours as a pre-winter break celebration! That ought to prop up revenues! /s
Indeed. We can vote with our dollars, and FR is a great vehicle for spreading the word. This movie sounds like disgusting anti-Christian pro-atheist trash.
IMHO, we should not only boycott the movie, but also any theater that runs it on their screen.
If you thought god was in trouble when people disobeyed and denied him, just stick around while they ignore him.
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