I got this email from my cousin in L.A. She did some research. Se was going to take her son to see it but she found this stuff out. We got some scary stuff being packaged as family friendly. Just shows you what the mentality of the world is these days...
Just wanted to inform you all of a children's movie that is coming out in December, during the Christmas season, which is entitled " The Golden Compass". The film stars Nicole Kidman and is based on the first of a trilogy of books for children called "His Dark Materials" written by Phillip Pullman of England. Phillip Pullman is a proud atheist who belongs to secular humanist societies. The movie is based on the least offensive of the three books, and they have dumbed down the worst el ments.
The concern is that unsuspecting parents will take their kids to this movie, and say "this wasn't troubling" and then buy his trilogy books where in the end the children kill God and everyone can do as they please. So basically the movie is bait for the books. In the movie God is at times called Yahweh, that was done on purpose so the movie would seem a little milder when viewed. Phillip Pullman is hoping that unsuspecting parents will take their children to see the movie, they will enjoy the movie, and then the children will want the books for Christmas. Writer Phillip Pullman says he wants the children to read his books and decide against God and the kingdom of heaven. Pullman also made the remark that he wants to kill God in the minds of children, and that's what his books are all about.
The movie is a watered down version of the first book, which is the least offensive of the three books. The second book of the trilogy is "The Subtle Knife", and the third book is "The Amber Spyglass". Each book gets worse and worse regarding Pullman 's hatred of God. In the trilogy, a young girl becomes enmeshed in an epic struggle against a nefarious church known as the Magisterium. Another character, an ex-nun, describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake". In the last book, a boy and a girl are depicted representing Adam and Eve and they kill God.
Pullman left little doubt about his intentions when he said in a 2003 interview that " My books are about killing God ." Conservative British columnist Peter Hitchens labeled Pullman " The most dangerous Author in Britain " and described his as a the writer "the atheists would have been praying for, if atheist prayed".
You can google a synOpsis of the The Golden Compass, you will be surprised to find that in a children's book part of the story is about castration and female circumcision.
The concern is that unsuspecting parents will take their kids to this movie, and say "this wasn't troubling" and then buy his trilogy books where in the end the children kill God and everyone can do as they please. So basically the movie is bait for the books. In the movie God is at times called Yahweh, that was done on purpose so the movie would seem a little milder when viewed. Phillip Pullman is hoping that unsuspecting parents will take their children to see the movie, they will enjoy the movie, and then the children will want the books for Christmas. Writer Phillip Pullman says he wants the children to read his books and decide against God and the kingdom of heaven. Pullman also made the remark that he wants to kill God in the minds of children, and that's what his books are all about.
The movie is a watered down version of the first book, which is the least offensive of the three books. The second book of the trilogy is "The Subtle Knife", and the third book is "The Amber Spyglass". Each book gets worse and worse regarding Pullman 's hatred of God. In the trilogy, a young girl becomes enmeshed in an epic struggle against a nefarious church known as the Magisterium. Another character, an ex-nun, describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake". In the last book, a boy and a girl are depicted representing Adam and Eve and they kill God.
Pullman left little doubt about his intentions when he said in a 2003 interview that " My books are about killing God ." Conservative British columnist Peter Hitchens labeled Pullman " The most dangerous Author in Britain " and described his as a the writer "the atheists would have been praying for, if atheist prayed".
You can google a synOpsis of the The Golden Compass, you will be surprised to find that in a children's book part of the story is about castration and female circumcision.
5 comments:
I hope you're not serious about this?
Believe it or not it's the absolutely truth. I was actually interested in this movie up until I found this garbage out. Pass on this.
I meant: "I hope you're not serious that because a film challenges your beliefs, you wouldn't allow your children to make their own decision on whether it raises a valid point."
Insecurity? Brain washing?
I don't think deciding what to teach your children is exactly the same as making them adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible pressure, such as that of brainwashing. But I can understand the confusion here. It probably looks to you like Jim is siding with the western religion world and I can assure you that, neither Jim, Austen, or myself hold those kinds of views, if that's what you're afraid of. We may believe in God but also believe that nearly all the world's religions are false. We're Jehovah's Witnesses.
Thanks for the civil reply, Frank! I didn't really deserve one after the aggression of my previous message.
I personally feel that the way organised religion teaches adults to bring up their children is fairly abhorrent, in that it reduces freedom of thought in the child through limiting the possible scope of ideas. If a child isn't even given the tools to consider the idea that a God might not exist, then how can the child be said to have real faith? They made no choice to be a believer, and they certainly can't be considered to be informed on the issue.
I personally would happily take my children to see this film, as I would have taken them to see The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. This is because I think these indirect methods of teaching (and these films are, in my opinion, sufficiently subtle enough to educate a child without preaching) are a suitable tool to educate with out indoctrination.
Anyway. I apologise for proselytising.
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