Be sure to boycott the movie
The Golden Compass, due for release in theaters on December 7, and pass the word to all your friends. It's based on a trilogy by British author Phillip Pullman, an avowed atheist who hates Christianity and the works of C.S. Lewis; he wrote his series of books to sell atheism and create a distaste for God and religion to young minds as a counterforce to the good wrought by the popularity of
The Narnia Chronicles. Pardon the spoiler here, but as best I understand it, the feel good ending of the trilogy is when the kids poke a sword into God and kill him (the character "Yahweh"). The forces of darkness are supposed to be the Church hierarchy, but you wouldn't know that since in the stories they're called "The Magisterium".
While the film version of
The Golden Compass waters down the venom and blunts the teeth of the most heavily vitriolic elements of the books, and stars Nicole Kidman to give it the cover of legitimacy, the real danger lies in the boon to book sales to be generated by interest in this film. (Think
Harry Potter, Narnia, and
Lord of the Rings). The worst stuff's in the books, which will surely fuel a crisis of faith in many a reader.
This is the real deal. Check it on
Snopes. Here's the
official movie synopsis.
Bad movie! Pass it on. Tell it from the pulpit. Blog it. Forward it.
Update: Don Danz tells it all so much better. Get all the details from him
here.
Labels: atheism, Christianity, movies
