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.
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.
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.)
If you thought god was in trouble when people disobeyed and denied him, just stick around while they ignore him.
I remember some years ago, that they made another movie (which most if not all Christians ignored) called "The Last Temptation of Christ" and I heard that it did not do well at the box office. I can't help but wonder, did they ever managed to recover the cost of making that vile piece of garbage?
Hah, I found a bad “review” of this through technorati. Apparently there is a lock down on reviews so...
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What if I broke my silence about the movie? Let’s suppose, for a moment, I told everyone that, controversy aside, the movie is a whopping letdown… a tangled mess of storytelling… with an off-puttingly shrill and obstinate little girl in the lead… and that it’s anticlimactic and unsatisfying. Let’s pretend that I found its climactic confrontation between polar bears to be a hollow re-enactment of the climactic scene from The Karate Kid, something so muc less satisfying than the stories of true heroism offered by Tolkien and Lewis. Let’s imagine I was underwhelmed by the concluding hubbub, a CGI battlefield spectacle so much like those we’ve seen in other recent films. Let’s just pretend that was my opinion, for kicks. Would I be in trouble for saying so?
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http://lookingcloser.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/chattaway-new-line-marketing-golden-compass-to-catholics-plus-catholic-news-service-pretty-much-gives-it-a-thumbs-up/
Personally, I don’t care anymore. It would be different if it weren’t for the “professional christians” who get “outraged” over everything. Now I just laugh at popular culture and the idiots who get paid to denounce it.
How rich is this: an atheist who uses fantasy (i.e. supernatural) figures to fight "evil" (and how religiously judgmental is it to define evil for us)?
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200711/CUL20071121d.html
“Catholic Group to Boycott ‘The Golden Compass’”
By Pete Winn
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
November 21, 2007
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The group’s objections center not on the film itself, McCaffrey said, but on the now 10-year-old trilogy of books from which “The Golden Compass” is taken, titled “His Dark Materials.”
“The three novels are extremely anti-faith in general, anti-Christian and anti-Catholic in particular, and pro-atheism,” McCaffrey told Cybercast News Service. “In each successive book, the anti-God agenda gets progressively stronger.”
She said the New Line Cinema movie is designed to suck unwitting kids and their parents into the atheistic agenda of the books’ British author, Philip Pullman.
“This man has been on the record for the last 12 years saying things such as, ‘I am all for the death of God,’ and ‘My books are all about killing God,’ and ‘I am of the Devil’s party and I know it,’ “ McCaffrey said.”
But it's okay for you to hate and despise people unlike yourself, like C.S. Lewis for one.
Wow,I have to warn the family.They just lost 20 tickets from us.We have a lot of grandchildren.
In other words, the good guys won’t be referred to a “son of Adam.”