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[christinenorris]

 I hope I didn't upset anyone with my talk about the church. I just don't get their blind boycotting policy of things that shouldn't change the way anyone feels about their faith. Movies, books, music...do these things really have such influence over our lives? Can we not see them and then decide how they affect us? If a movie or book does, in fact

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[kbaccellia]

What gets me is how some people are basing their opinion on the movie by what others say. Some of these people haven't even read The Golden Compass but think because the author doesn't believe in God that the movie is evil. We had that email circulating in our church and I ended up addressing it. Afterwards, I had more than one member thank me for not being afraid to say what I felt.

[christinenorris]

Hence, my issue with the boycott. The church, in making such statements, convey the message that they don't think highly enough of their members to be able to form their own opinions.

Books and movies aren't dangerous. Ideas aren't dangerous. People are dangerous.

The notion that people could form their own opinions and that ideas weren't dangerous was what brought about the Renaissance. Without it, we'd still be stuck in the Dark Ages, not being allowed to read and women being property.