Friday, November 16, 2007

Parental Warning.......

There's a children's movie coming out Dec 7 "The Golden Compass". I read the reviews and it sounded like a good movie until I started researching it.....

This movie is based on the book by the same name. It's written by a devoted ATHEIST who HATES CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia so much he decided to write this book... In it the kids "Kill God" (Which we all know is completely impossible) and take control of their own lives doing whatever they want.

Here's just ONE of the editorials I found when I googled this title......
The New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights already is calling for a boycott of the film The Golden Compass, saying the book on which it is based furthers an atheist agenda. Now it's calling on the book's publisher to disassociate itself from any future films based on author Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series.

"The author of these books, Philip Pullman, does not disguise his hatred of Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church," league President William Donohue wrote in a letter to Richard Robinson, CEO of Scholastic Corporation. "Why, then, would Scholastic be associated with such bigotry?"

Donohue goes on to write, "Christians need to be convinced that Scholastic will never again work with militant atheists who have an animus against their religion. Catholics, in particular, want to be certain that purchasing Scholastic materials does not indirectly fund campaigns against them. To this end, we look for Scholastic to pledge that in the event a movie version of Pullman’s other two books, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, is launched, it will have nothing to do with them. This would reassure Christians that the "Golden Compass" venture was an anomaly."

The league is on record as saying The Golden Compass is the least atheistic of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, and has acknowledged that the movie, to be released Dec. 7, may very well leave out some of the elements it finds most offensive (the filmmakers are on record saying as much). But that's not enough for league officials, who say they fear the movie's success could lead to increased sales of Pullman's books.

All I ask is that you do your own research and decide for yourself.

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