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If you believe in and revere your God, do not watch the movie "The Golden Compass" and especially do not buy the books.
If you believe in and revere your God, do not watch the movie "The Golden Compass" and especially do not buy the books.
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1) If you want a movie to fail — if you're really against a movie — then don't complain too loudly about it. And most certainly don't do it on the internet. The Passion of Christ? Awful, nearly pornographic film… would have been completely ignored on its merits. Then the religious wingnuts got in a snit and so _everyone_ had to see it. It was huge. At least for the first weekend, until word got out that the movie sucked. If you really don't like the premise of a movie, don't see it.
2) I've read — and greatly enjoyed — the entire His Dark Materials series. And you're right: it's written by Philip Pullman, an avowed atheist. It's a wonderful and well-wrought tale about children who come into their own and fight evil. It's beautiful in its imagery and execution, and I have no compunction in recommending it.
You see, it's a children's fantasy novel. And it uses magic. And all sorts of things familiar to children's fantasy readers… but it also talks about religion and god and the afterlife — subjects rarely broached in the genre. And while I don't much care for Pullman's take on the Real God — or, perhaps what he'd say about _my_ religion — he makes the same mistakes most atheists do when discussing religion. He underestimates the human spirit and its insatiable desire to reach for the divine.
Kill god? Oh… that must be some evil being _pretending_ to be god. God evil? Oh… that's not my god at all.
The book is a wonderful yarn with myriad chances for engaged parents to discuss God and religiosity with their children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Pullman