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[kaysa3]

Golden Compass, aka my favorite book series *ever* is actually a fantastic movie :) I cannot wait for the next one!

and now for my next act, FINALS! Not looking too bad though, shouldn't be difficult.

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[graycloud]

Now, I have a question about those Golden Compass books, in your opinion, do you find the athiestic context influential? Or is it hardly noticable? I ask this not because I have read the books, but because my roommate read an interview with him during the pre-movie release hype and in it he said that he wrote the books hoping that it would cause children to believe that there wasn't a God. I don't really know how he would accomplish this based on the trailer for the movie I've seen, but it does seem to be a topic of controversy.

[kaysa3]

That's interesting that he would say that. I think the books give good cause to believe that there is a God. Not the God society has generally created, but an influence over everything that lives in people and is connects them to each other and the world. It certainly makes you question the authority of the church and your own beliefs. But I think that makes it a stronger argument in the end. Of course I could be reading it all wrong, but I found that the spiritual aspect is much more powerful then the idea that God is dead. I guess if children take that literally, then yes, it would be a powerful atheist message. But I do think that if you believe that theres is more to the world then exactly what is written in the Bible, then its not.