"THE GOLDEN COMPASS" - A movie to avoid

FYI...got this in an email...thought I'd share!
Let's discuss this movie....Any thoughts or ideas on it?




We NEED to get this out to everyone that you can think of, boycott theaters
that may play it, do whatever we can to STOP this trash from being viewed
and make parents/grandparents aware of the sinister goings on of thismovie.......

There will be a new Children's movie out in December called THE GOLDEN
COMPASS. It is written by Phillip Pullman, a proud athiest who belongs to
secular humanist societies. He hates C. S. Lewis's Chronical's of Narnia
and has written a trilogy to show the other side. The movie has been dumbed
down to fool kids and their parents in the hope that they will buy his
trilogy where in the end the children kill God and everyone can do as they
please. Nicole Kidman stars in the movie so it will probably be advertised
a lot. This is just a friendly warning that you sure won't hear on the
regular TV.

The second part is entitled THE SUBTLE KNIFE and the third is THE AMBER
SPYGLASS. Each book gets worse and worse for hatred of God.

The books of the trilogy have sold more than 15 million copies around the
world.
This is confirmed on snoopes.com web site. PLEASE BE AWARE - WE HAVE TO
PROTECT OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN from the secular world.

http://snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp>

 

Just out of curiosity, have you ever read the book?

 

No, and I don't want to. I have read all the Harry Potters movies and love them, but they aren't killing God either.

 

So basically you're asking us to boycott something of which you have no personal knowledge. Is that correct?

 

Nope, if you read my post I said FYI, I got this email and thought I'd share. I looked it up on Snopes and they verified the email. I thought other parents might be interested in the information.

 

You are still asking us to boycott something based on something you personally have no first hand knowledge of.

 

No I'm not Clif, I'm posting the email that was sent to me saying that to make parents aware of the situation.

I'm not arguing with you today Clif. You don't have small children, so why do you even care?? Let me answer that, because you have to argue with someone about something all the time on here, and today everyone else is gone, so you have to make someone else your target. Grow up!:roll:

 

He has received alot of Children's Literature's awards....I know 'snopes' verified the mail is 'real' but I don't know....I can't find one God hating anything on the guy.....


http://www.philip-pullman.com/about_the_author.asp

 

question asked to the Author:

His Dark Materials seems to be against organised religion. Do you believe in God?
I don't know whether there's a God or not. Nobody does, no matter what they say. I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away.
Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.

 

I have not read the book so I can't confirm either way. However, Wikipedia states that the novel denigrates organized religion and the abuse of power in the Catholic Church.

 

well 'organized religion' and 'God Killing' are worlds apart in meaning....

at least they are to me.

 

The Archbishop of Canterbury disagrees with the Christian groups over Phillip Pullman. He says that the negative portrail of "The Church" is condemning dogmatism, not religion.

I tend to agree. Religion, in and of itself, is good. Dogmatism, that is the control the some would take over the masses, is bad.

But then, I just like to argue, don't I. You have been told what to believe and anyone that challenges it is to be put down.

Oh, wait, that's dogmatism.

 

Yep, like I said I don't know either. I just thought parents might want to be aware, because I had actually seen some previews and it looked like an interesting movie.

As I've stated before, I don't go to church, etc., but was raised really religious and educated my children on different religions and let them make up their own minds.

 

dogmatism
1 : positiveness in assertion of opinion especially when unwarranted or arrogant 2 : a viewpoint or system of ideas based on insufficiently examined premises

 

I have to say, you have peaked my interest, for sure. I don't put much stock in other's opinions about music, food, or movies. But I do appreciate the opportunity to investigate, and learn. I had never even heard the word 'dogmatism' till Clif typed it.

I fear the email is from perhaps a group who are always looking to stir and make things 'bad' or 'wrong'....who knows though....right....guess they are entitled to their views....

 

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/18087...-qtv-s.46332584-,4451176-2700-qtv-s.46332580-

 

Kellbell... kinda off the subject, but let me ask you a question. Based on the fact that all physical matter came from something (Big Bang or other) and is in a constant state of breaking down is it possible that it all came about without something or someone eternal creating it?

I've always wanted to ask the Big Bang Theorist this question... where did the physical matter come from that went "Bang?" It can't be eternal because physical matter breaks down (has a start and end.)

Answers?

Pastor G

 

Why don't we just start burning books too?

It physically sickens me that people have no tolerance for others' beliefs and how this is a two-way street. If I don't beleive in God, so what? Isn't that my problem?

Butt the F*** out of what movies I can and cannot watch. So what if they show a world without organized religion (Ah, If only...).

It's called fantasy. Some might even ague that the bible itself is merely fantasy.

Clif is right. You are ignorant to the topic.

 

It's looks pretty f'ing cool to me!!

BTW, that was a link to the trailer that I posted previously.

 

I've been waiting for the movie ever since I saw the trailer on TWC's "Trailers On Demand"

Personally I had never heard of the books before and, when I saw the first few seconds of the trailer, I thought it might be another Narnia book made into a movie.