"Rant"
I got wondering about "The Golden Compass" again after seeing another preview for it and hearing that my high school was sending emails to parents advising them to restrict their children from seeing it. So after some google-ing (and wikipedia-ing) I've come up with a few conclusions.
- The author is an Athiest. Fact, and he has been mis-quoted as saying that he wrote this trilogy of books to undermine Christianity.
- He wrote this trilogy (His Dark Materials) as a sort of response to C.S. Lewis's Narnia series, because he found it to be religious propaganda.(still that does not mean he is writing it to undermine Christianity)
- The archbishop of Canterbury (the head of the Anglican Church), finds it useful in the portrayal of the "church" in the series, in that how religion can be misused to opress and finds simple examples of attacks on dogmatism in the series.
- Nicole Kidman has defended her decision to star in the film, saying that "the Catholic Church is part of my essence. I wouldn't be able to do this film if I thought it were at all anti-Catholic".
- The Adam and Eve characters supposedly killing the god-like character, happens in the third part of the series. And they don't kill God. He eventually dies by being exposed to a gust of wind, he is weak and unable to resist it, but appears to find death a release. Oh and the character is called The Authority, he isn't God, he's the first created angel (the creator God takes a back seat, and never dies) and he took over. (e.g. when you play god you die)
- and I even found a book that shows the Christian and valuable aspects of the book http://www.tyndale.com/products/details.asp?isbn=978-1-4143-1564-5
grr... I'm a Christian, I don't object to fantasy stories. I am pro-imagination, as long as we realize it is imaginative not reality. So people need to shut up and actually read what it is that they think reads, "Catholics smell funny, Lutherans are Retarded, and Anglicans are tone deaf. And I'm killing God in two movies if this one does well.