The Golden Compass

Jan 08, 2008 01:01

By the way, The Golden Compass actually refers to another type of compass - not the compass the movie is known for. That's why the book is also known by its other name - The Northern Lights. The actual golden compass it's refering to is from John Milton's Paradise Lost, where it refers to the drawing instrument:


No prizes for guessing who's using the compass...
Anyway, it's interesting - though not surprising - to find Christian friends who are scared to watch the movie simply because of what they've heard. A movie can't change your faith...unless your beliefs aren't that strong in the first place. In which case, you should be spending time on your faith instead of just being 'faithful' when you're not actually very much at all. Granted maybe you know your faith is weak (hence why I said earlier it's not surprising), and you want to stay away from anything which might deviate you, but that means all the more you should actually be doing something about it rather than just live in fear that a movie can change your belief system. For if just a movie can change your faith, then you're really living on some rocky faith. You're not actually doing justice to your faith at all.
I must add that if that is the state of your faith, then you have more bigger things to worry about than a movie. For when the shit hits the fan, so to speak, then you know what they say, that's when you seperate the fakes from the believers.
Anyway, isn't it interesting that for all the hype the movie is generating about being anti-Christian/God, the Golden Compass actually refers to the instrument God uses for Creation.
Amusing isn't it?
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