The Golden Compass....what's debate about?!
Question: I think it's extremely dumb, it's a movie. People need to move on. Not everyone believes in God and going to the movie isn't going to change a believer into a non-believer. I'm defiantely going to see it, for the entertainment aspect
Answers: I think it's extremely dumb, it's a movie. People need to move on. Not everyone believes in God and going to the movie isn't going to change a believer into a non-believer. I'm defiantely going to see it, for the entertainment aspect
I believe it talks a lot about children believing in God. Some people are just against that.
The debate is - did it last two days or three days. The running time was only about an hour and a half, but it was so boring that it seemed like hours became days...
I heard it was anti Christian
Oh nothing. The religous right decided that it was an attempt by the great Satan to corrupt the minds of good, God fearin' folks. I think that they just diddn't pay up the hush money so the Robertsons are trying to ruin it. It's a very common shakedown. They do it all the time.
The big deal about this is that the book series ends with the children destroying God. The author, from what I have heard is an Atheist and he uses his stories, just like C.S. Lewis did, to express his views on religion. In this case though, it's not a very popular view and has brought severe controversy due to it being aimed at children.
It's about religion and the concept of God. The author of the book does not hide hide skepticism about religion...he has written several articles on the subject...several months ago a religious group started sending e-mails to their members asking them to boycott the movie....before it was ever SEEN by anyone...here is an excerp from an article about the whole thing....read on...
What's really astonishing, and telling, is how long it's taken America's religious fear-mongers to notice Pullman. He's never hidden his skepticism about God or his rejection of organized religion. A quick Internet search turns up a 2004 essay he wrote deploring "theocracies" for a newspaper in his native Britain, and his own Web site states that he thinks it "perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it." "His Dark Materials" features a sympathetic character, an ex-nun, who describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake," while "The Amber Spyglass" concludes with the two child heroes participating in the dissolution of "the Authority," a senile, pretender God who has falsely passed himself off as the creator of the universe.
Only with a movie attached, however, does an outfit like Focus on the Family deem the "blasphemous and heretical" content of Pullman's fiction worthy of their attention. The Catholic League is calling for a boycott of the film and books; evangelical Protestant organizations have settled for simply urging their constituencies to approach both with extreme caution. Whether the controversy will harm the film or wrap it in the glamour of the forbidden remains to be seen. As for the books, well, you have to wonder how much actual reading goes on in the sort of household that welcomes e-mails like the ones denouncing "The Golden Compass," anyway.
the entire article can be read .....just click the link below...
personally...I will go see the movie and form MY OWN OPINION...it is after all a book of FICTION/FANTASY....
It's anti-religious. The whole plot of the movie trilogy is that they are going against an "over-bearing" god, and at the end of the trilogy, the children actually band together and kill god. THAT is one of the reasons they're saying it's anti-religious.
Also, think about it. The movie is populated by witches and animals called "Daemons" as the "good guys." Both characterized by the Bible as having to do with the Devil.
..and apparently the book is worse than the movie.