A film called "The Golden Compass" opened December 7. I have been hearing a lot of negative reactions to this movie. Tonight my kids started to watch a movie that previewed The Golden Compass. I told the kids I heard a lot of bad things about the movie, and it was not a movie Christians should see. They asked me why, so I looked online and found this article by The Catholic League.
The Golden Compass is based on the first book of a trilogy titled His Dark Materials. The author of this children's fantasy is Philip Pullman, a noted English atheist. It is his objective to bash Christianity and promote atheism. To kids. "The Golden Compass" is a film version of the book by that name, and it is being toned down so that Catholics, as well as Protestants, are not enraged.
The second book of the trilogy, The Subtle Knife, is more overt in its hatred of Christianity than the first book, and the third entry, The Amber Spyglass, is even more blatant. Because "The Golden Compass" is based on the least offensive of the three books, and because it is being further watered down for the big screen, some might wonder why parents should be wary of the film.
The Catholic League wants Christians to stay away from this movie precisely because it knows that the film is bait for the books: unsuspecting parents who take their children to see the movie may be impelled to buy the three books as a Christmas present. And no parent who wants to bring their children up in the faith will want any part of these books.
08:37, Saturday, December 29, 2007
.. Posted by Charity
I heard about this too on the radio while we were in car. What is great is my son was in the car with us so he heard all about it. I heard hem telling one of his brother or sister about it and how the guy who made it is atheist and so on and so forth. I won't be allowing my kids to watch it or read the books. The great thing is they already know they can't with out asking and my son is unenterested after hearing about it on the radio.
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