Don't freak out over The Golden Compass
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you have not heard, "The Golden Compass" is the first book in a What could be harmful about a fairy-tale story with. huge bears fighting each other? ...
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Dont freak out over The Golden Compass Dont freak out over The Golden Compass The e-mail warnings started hitting my inbox several weeks ago. They were warning me to keep all young children, and everyone else for that matter, away from a new, dangerous movie, The Golden Compass, starring Nicole Kidman. Anytime you get these types of warnings it pays to be wise, discerning, and to not immediately jump on some boycott band wagon. In case you have not heard, The Golden Compass is the first book in a trilogy written by Phillip Pullman, an internationally acclaimed writer of childrens books. The movie opened this week and it is advertised like a new Narnia or Lord of the Rings-type film. In fact, New Line film studio is the same studio that brought us the Lord of the Rings trilogy. What could be harmful about a fairy-tale story with huge bears fighting each other? As it turns out, the message in the trilogy does attack God and Christianity, but so do many movies out today. What is true is that Pullman is an atheist and he does have an agenda. In the third book of his trilogy, the hero of the stories kills God. He despises the writings of Tolkien and CS Lewis. Pullman said, I hate the Narnia books. I hate them with a deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling away. He called the series one of the most ugly and poisonous things hes ever read ...
Source: www.brookwoodchurch.com
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