I received this in email the other day. It represents precisely what I consider the lobotomization of society. Don’t bother to actually educate yourself on the topic, merely regurgitate whatever other people tell you.
Subject: children’s movie warning Be prepared for this one:Received the followed post from another loop. This is important since the marketing for this movie has already started. It looks a lot like “Narnia” but is so far from it. BEWARE! There will be a new Children’s movie out in December called THE GOLDEN COMPASS. It is written by Phillip Pullman, a proud athiest who belongs to secular humanist societies. He hates C. S. Lewis’s Chronical’s of Narnia and has written a trilogy to show the other side. The movie has been dumbed down to fool kids and their parents in the hope that they will buy his trilogy where in the end the children kill God and everyone can do as they please. Nicole Kidman stars in the movie so it will probably be advertised a lot.This is just a friendly warning that you sure won’t hear on the regular TV.Pullman, a prominent British atheist, has acknowledged that this is in fact his goal. He has claimed that “it is my goal to go after Christianity, I want God to be dead in my works. I want to undermine Christianity”
While the overall content of the message is accurate the quote at the bottom is a bit strong compared to what I’ve found attributed to Pullman. Of course many people will make a big stink if the content isn’t strictly “biblical” in nature (you can fill a library, and many are, with books that have gathered similar criticism over the years.) My opinion is that knowledge and understanding can’t be achieved in a vacuum – how can you ever really understand a two-sided concept if you are only ever given one side of the story?
Does “hot” have much meaning without understanding the concept of “cold?” Frankly I never gave a moment’s thought in the first book that amounted to “hey, they aren’t very Christian here.” It’s a work of fiction and is clearly not an accurate representation of our world. Bears that talk that wear armor ought to be enough for most people to figure it out, but I guess others need it spelled out in simpler terms. The theme of the first book is a little girl exhibiting great courage and common sense to right a wrong that she eventually discovers is being perpetrated by her absentee father. In the meantime she learns a lot of other things that are difficult to accept for anyone, but she deals with it.
Along the road she learns about the dangers of stereotypes and the importance of cooperation, honesty and loyalty.
Yep, a direct ticket to hell, this one is.
I can’t comment on the second book since I’ve only managed to read the first couple of chapters so far. When I finish it I’ll certainly let you know it follows the map to spiritual demise.
Oh, and did I mention that in the universe described by the book humans all have a little critter of some form that runs around with them? They’re called daemons and they’re connected to their people telepathically. Yep, that’s something you see on the street every day, surely this alone will result in the collapse of civilization as we know it!
In short, I’m sure we could find all kinds of things to object to if we wanted to distance ourselves from specific components of society. What if we only wanted to read authors who were vegans? The same “moral” argument could just as easily be made on that front. Harry Potter got the same hype and negative press, people just need to get over themselves and quit trying to come across as pseudo-intellectuals. That should be left to the pseudo-professional-pseudo-intellectuals, like yours truly. If they haven’t even bothered to read the book I have no interest in entertaining further discussion with them.
That would be tantamount to asking a nun or a monk for advice about sex.
No, they’re not bible stories. Most things aren’t.
See you at the movie, I’ll be the one with the jumbo popcorn.
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