oh NO hide the kiddies
"The Golden Compass - Off Course
By Kathy Rappleye (she is an LDS temple worker)
The Golden Compass, which is opening today (December 7, 2007), has all the trappings of a major Hollywood success - big name stars (Nicole Kidman, Ian McCellan), a huge budget ($200,000,000), and a trailer that looks fantastical and inviting. A rich, sumptuous offering for the holiday season.
Its creators are looking for the beginning of a blockbuster series like Lord of the Rings, with increased book sales to follow.
But wait a minute. This movie comes with a warning from Christian groups that might make you stop before rushing to the theater with your children in hand, because it is a watered down version of the first book in Phillip Pullman’s dark trilogy His Dark Materials.
This author, according to one Christian group who sent out an alarm “has been very straightforward about his agenda to indoctrinate children against God and religion. He does not try to hide his disdain for Christianity nor his desire to convert as many young people as he can to atheism.”
With good reason, Christian groups are claiming that this is a pro-atheist stealth campaign, disguised as a fantasy film.
Pullman himself has always been open about his beliefs, or I should say non-beliefs, and his reasons for writing the children’s novels. He has said in press interviews that “His Dark Materials” books are in response to C. S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia” written by Lewis to teach Christian ideals to children: “I loathe the ‘Narnia’ books; I hate them with a deep and bitter passion...”
He has called the series “one of the most ugly and poisonous things” he has ever read. (As quoted in FoxNews.com article of Oct. 29, 2007 by Catherine Donaldson-Evans)
The film is the story of a girl named Lyra from Oxford, England, who travels to the edge of another universe and becomes caught in a battle between good and evil. But the evil organization in the book is the church, and in the movie it is the Magisterium, a term for Roman Catholic authority to teach doctrine. While director Chris Weitz said he had to cut some controversial religious material from the first film for commercial reasons, he plans to be truer to the books in upcoming films.
In the third book of the Pullman series, the children essentially kill God. The worry that permeates parents who are concerned about The Golden Compass is that the film is insidious, that while the director cleansed the first film to lure viewers, children will want to read the books, which are overtly hostile to religion.
Young minds are vulnerable, and Pullman seems to have an aggressive idea about how to affect the rising generation"
won't someone please think of the children.........
having once been a kid that was spoonfed religion from the beginning I say if you have washed your kids brains thouroghly enough they will watch this show and recognize it for the devil worship it is. They should be able to tell just form the commercials that it is purely the work of satan, if not you are not doing your job as a parent.