I’m sure God has faced worse than an English writer and his armoured polar bears.
1. The trailers looked so stupid that long before I knew anything else about the movie I determined I wouldn’t see it.
2. It would be foolish for any Christian parent to take their child to see it.
3. Nietzsche wasn’t able to kill off God. Neither could William Schatner. I think that says something.
4. I don’t understand what the whole polar bear crap is all about, anyway. Evolution is a fact, isn’t it? The creative power of evolution will respond to the pressures of climatic change and result in the evolution of an animal which is more advanced and complex than the stupid polar bears we got now. Evolve, adapt, or die you stupid beasts.
(NB-I’d be more inclined to accept evolution as a meaningful theory if we ever got to actually see something like this. But we don’t, or it’s so contrived it carries no intellectual weight. But that’s for a different thread.)
You are correct.
It is not, however, God for whom I have concern. He has weathered far better writing than Pullman’s.
It is the children of families who have no idea about the author’s purposes that I worry about. It is at least plausible that they will be drawn to the books without any awareness of why Pullman penned them.
To claim that the trilogy is not anti-Christian is dishonest at worst, disingenuous at best. To think there will not be greater interest in the books because of the film and the positive spin spun by secularists is folly.
GC is secular propaganda aimed at children. At the least secularists should be honest.