Posted on 11/30/2007 8:06:34 PM PST by Coleus
All the “crying wolf” over the harmless Harry Potter novels unfortunately undermines attempts to oppose real evil like the Pullman series.
Amen. But they are after the children. Just like the homosexuals do now getting into the schools. The battle is for souls.
Yeah, it was just an equally dumb comment I made to someone else in this thread about their’s.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. It’s changed here.
I’ve already read that, and found it irrelevant.
Pullman's comments about his atheist agenda and its presence in his written works are actually supported by the books in question. Rowling's "outing" of a character is not.
Pullman can only benefit from these comparisons.
OK, back from lunch. MY, what a mess I’ve made. I should be ashamed of myself for believing others’ reports. You tell me there were no homosexual inferences in “Last Temptation”? Well then, I guess I have to believe you, then, don’t I? Oh, wait - you’ll tell me I’m ignorant if I believe you...
NOW - answer my question you so conveniently ignored:
“How about if I call a child pornograher who rapes children a “pervert”? Do I have to watch him do it to decide?”
OK, just to set the record straight, I was apparently wrong about the homosexual content of the movie. But that can be blamed on my memory of 10 years ago, not on any misrepresented information I got.
As I did a little research, it came back to me several of the things that were so objectionable about the movie, namely, the scene (imagined though it was) of Jesus kissing Mary Magdelene in bed, of him sitting outside her house, while she was plying “her trade”, etc.
My apologies for getting my facts wrong, but I still contend that good advice by trusted people can, and should on many occasions be followed, especially on important issues. In the case of the “Golden Compass”, the author himself tells God-fearing individuals that he doesn’t like us, or our God. I’ll take a pass, thank you.
Circa 846 A.D.. I helped extort Danegeld in my Pagan past. ;)
I do not worry about going to the movies. Hallmark has been having some wonderful Christmas movies. There are usually 2 movies each night. If your cable has this channel start watching them. They start at 8 Central time. A Grandpa for Christmas was one of the movies last night and it was terrific.
Last year I got my grandkids the “Cars” DVD for Hanukkah.
When is “Shrek the Third” coming out on DVD?
Roger Friedman of Fox News has been hyping this movie like mad. Several weeks ago, he was already declaring it “golden” and “a smash” even before it has sold its first ticket.
This sums up the movie nicely:
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/007/compass-pullman.htm
It’s anti-Christian new-age one-worldism for kids.
An excerpt from the link above:
Flying witches, evil specters, talking bears and evolving “Dust” abound in The Dark Materials, Philip Pullman’s popular fantasy series for children. In this confusing cosmos of multiple universes, humans are linked to personal daemons, and telepathic seekers find answers to life’s mysteries through divination, Eastern meditation, ancient “wisdom” and ritual magic. These occult practices are essential to the battle for the “free” Republic — against the despised old Church.
Lyra, the pre-teen heroine, is a headstrong tomboy raised without parents at an Oxford college in a universe parallel to ours. A proficient liar, she’s first seen snooping in a forbidden area with her daemon camouflaged as a moth. From then on, she follows her intuition from one crisis to the next until all remnants of Biblical truth and authority have been destroyed. By the end of the series, God is dead. Free-spirited Lyra (still a 12-year-old) has sexually “come of age” and fulfilled her prophetic assignments in the war against Christianity.
What staggering hypocrisy is being exhibited on this thread.
On one hand, we’re being castigated for taking the word of he reviewers and author about the content of the movie yet the same people who are doing the criticism seem to expect us to take THEM at THEIR word about what the movies, plays, and books are really about.
And we should believe them over someone else because....?????
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