Are Atheists seen as social degenerates ?

Question

I guess it depends on where you are from. But in my country,
the US, there is an outrage going on. The movie being
released called, The Golden Compass, is a ploy to
thwart the perception of religion. And advocate, or
Atheist icon Ellen Johnson, is the head of this all. But she
is being, taken out of order by the Christians..... Great !
And we are taking a stand against this propaganda.
As we should. So I am asking all of you, from around the
world. Do you think that this is fair to try and mislead
little children, into thinking that THE ALMIGHTY, can be
destroyed ? Should this film be banned, The Golden
Compass ? Google it if you may..... Give me your best
answer. Be candid by all means possible, too. Cause
I know that you will. And you will win. >>>>>>

Answer 1

I think one of the major issues that's going on with it is the deception that's involved. This guy's intentions were to get the kids so wrapped in the movie, then once he got them hooked by the third movie destroy God. His intentions were to turn the children into atheists...

So... to all who wrote that we Christians are brainwashing our children... what do you have to say for this man's trickery.

Answer 2

Kin of Kings
Ben Hur
The Big Fisherman
The Robe
The Ten Commandments
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Jesus of Nazareth
Passion of the Christ
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Golden Compass
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, I can see where there is a threat from atheists, taking over Hollywood, or the world of film. WOW

Answer 3

The golden compass - based on the novel 'Northern lights' is a fantasy adventure. That is the first obstacle to a knuckle-headed fundamentalist - believing as they do in the fantasies of the bible, they are really challenged when this genre is used against them! Oddly enough, there was no outcry against 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe', which uses the fantasy genre to promote the miserable cult of Christianity!
The film is not deliberate anti-christian propaganda. But the writer weaves atheistic, anti-religious threads into it, in a much more subtle way than CS Lewis did in his death-obsessed Narnia books. If it frees up the thinking of children unfortunate enough to be brainwashed by fundamentalist American Xtian right, then so much the better, but it is only supposed to be entertainment!

You are right by the way - the Almighty can not be destroyed - you can not destroy that which does not exist!!

Answer 4

So its a good thing for you to promote your own propaganda and indoctrinate children but a bad thing for them to see other perspectives and points of view? Get over yourself. Its free speech. Don't go to the movie if you don't like the subject. At any rate the whole thing has been overblown. The books have a question authority because its not always what it represents itself to be message. The thing killed was not actually a God but something pretending to be. The movie will be highly sanitized of potentially sensitive material which didn't even take real shape until late in the trilogy anyway so wouldn't appear in this film.

Answer 5

No, I don't think it's wrong. What I think is wrong is brainwashing children into believing in whatever religion their parents have chosen to follow - rather than letting them grow up and then make up their own minds.

Atheism is growing hugely in pretty much every developed country in the world apart from the US. If atheists were so degenerate then why does the US have much higher crime rates than other western countries, where atheism is much more prevalent?

I don't think anyone who promotes their religion as forcefully as you can really lecture about propaganda. "Pot calling kettle black" springs to mind!

Answer 6

I'm a Christian
and I think it's great that Christians are finally standing up for all the crap that we go through

I've read the Golden Compass
it didn't seem bad
I read it in 6th grade
but I've heard that the series gets worse and worse
I didn't read the other books
cuz frankly, I thought the book was boring
too detailed on every little thing

We know that God can't be destroyed
but there are so many people out there that just look for reasons to diss God and Christianity

just watch
even while I'm still typing this
there will be people who will be like
God is just a bunch of BS
he's not real
blah blah blah

it's quite sad actually
how they've let sin mislead their hearts to that point
I pray for them

Answer 7

No the film should certainly not be banned what we should do is to seriously think about banning people from brainwashing children into thinking that there is some sort of super being up in the clouds watching their every move

Answer 8

Depends where you live. As you stated.

I stay out of Texas and Saudi, generally.

Here in Ye Olde Heathen Engerland one isn't generally considered degenerate for not believing in deities. In most conversations it's never mentioned. I only really started using the term 'atheist' when I came to visit R&S.

Answer 9

You actually want to BAN all dissenting views??

Wow, how very American of you.

Even if the Golden Compass was a completely atheistic screed, how would that in any way, shape or form justify banning it?

Is your faith so weak that it can't even stand to have its tenets questioned?

Atheists did not protest the showing of Chronicles of Narnia, even though it is unabashedly pro-Christian. In fact, many of them read the books and saw the film and enjoyed it very much.

What are you so afraid of?

Answer 10

Go ahead and ban 'The Golden Compass'. You'll be correctly labelled a fascist. If you're so-called almighty god can't handle a little bit of Atheistic criticism, he/she/it can't really be that almighty.

By the way, you are the one trying to mislead little children by ramming your outdated and outlandish concepts down their throats.

Answer 11

How will one movie harm a child...It is WRONG to ban it..I am a Christian. I believe that Atheists have ALL the freedoms of the constitution..INCLUDING freedom of religion, and speech. I doubt one child in ten will get the "message" any more than they got the Christian "message" in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe!