Is this why they hate the Golden Compass?

Question

The movie opens up with a moving shot of the universe and Kidman's voice saying, "there are many universes, and many earths, parallel to each other, worlds like yours where people souls live in their body, and worlds like mine, where their souls walk beside them...so many worlds, and connecting them is dust, dust was here before the witches, before everything."

This, I suppose would go contradict the thought that ‘God’ made Earth and nothing else. But it’s a fact that there are other blue-green planets about the same size and about the same distance from their sun as we are from ours.

When are people going to educate themselves?

SNCK, wow, them are fightin' words.

I recently read an article in National Geographic about a sun, about the same size as ours, surrounded by 5 planets. The 5th planet was about the same size as ours at about the same distance we are to our sun.

Of course you can poke holes through all of this, what issue?! what's the name of the article? nothing's conclusive because that planet is 100 light years away!, but I believe it's better to learn than to be proved right. There are a billion stars in the Milky Way and a billion galaxy's like the Milky Way in the observable universe. The idea that Earth is the only planet with life is beyond naive. It's Christian.

EDWARD J!!!!

I want to report you!!!!

Oh my God please tell me you're joking about the there's no such thing as other universes!!!

Have you ever seen the photo's from the Hubble Telescope??

Please go study Astronomy.

Answer 1

That's not really all of it. Those who don't like it because in the movie and the book, God represents the evil side. In the end God is defeated and killed. The chrisitans don't like the representation of God in the movie, and believe God will win the final war.

Answer 2

I suppose that could be the issue people have? I did not really know there was an issue... I'm a youth pastor in Sacramento, CA. The only reason I don't really care to see that movie is it looks like a not so good rip off of Narnia / Lord of the Rings movies.

But I suppose there are many Christians out there that would be up-in-arms about those statements. It is hard to deny there are other planets out there, but have they found one which sustains life other than ours? I haven't yet heard of that, but hey, I love Star Trek, I am open to that.

Answer 3

If you had read the book you would know what Pullman is talking about. The book, by the way, is called Northern Lights in most of the world not The Golden Compass. There is also a single volume edition of the trilogy with the title His Dark Materials.

When I read the book, I had no thoughts about gods or origins. The book is a fantasy.

Answer 4

As a Mormon I am not offended by this very much. According to our theology Christ is the creator of many earths like this which are peopled by spirit children of the Father. There is some hint of this in the Bible: "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" (Heb 1:2.)

But it's even more conclusive in latter-day scriptures.

"And were it possible that man could number the particles of the earth, yea, millions of earths like this, it would not be a beginning to the number of thy creations; and thy curtains are stretched out still; and yet thou art there, and thy bosom is there; and also thou art just; thou art merciful and kind forever;" (Moses 7:30.)

"And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten." (mosiah 1:33)

"For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father—That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God." (D&C 76:23-24.)

As for the part about dust being here before the witches, before everything...could this be alluding to element which Mormons believe is neither created nor destroyed and had an existence since God has?

"The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a fulness of joy" (D&C 93:33.)

"Element had an existence from the time He had. The pure principles of element are principles which can never be destroyed; they may be organized and re-organized, but not destroyed. They had no beginning and can have no end." -Joseph Smith

In other words, Mormons believe that nothing in existence was created from "nothing." That concept just slaps logic in the face. Even a law of thermodynamics agrees with the idea that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. God can organize and reorganize existing matter...but matter and everything else in the Universe just "is"...it isn't brought forth out of this weird concept of 'nothing.' Even the supposed empty spaces in outer space are not 'nothing' but are something...although very, very small....and invisible to the human eye.

Answer 5

Not speaking for all Christians, but for myself, I have a tendency to think of movies as someones imagination.
I don't think the problem is multi-dimensional. I don't believe that God created any other species outside of Earth yet, but that doesn't mean I won't watch Star Wars. I think the same applies to other Christians, there must be something else in this movie that offends.
I'm not sure if I'll see it cuz of the whole witches/daemon thing tho.

Answer 6

I am a Christian, and many of the people with whom I attend church see the movie as a fantasy. We are looking forward to seeing it. It's harmless fiction.
True, it is based on books written by an atheist, but so what?


My faith is strong. This movie is not going to shake it. I think it looks really good.



Don't make such faulty generalizations. It makes you look rather illogical.

Answer 7

The author is an atheist.

I don't know why people have a problem with this, either.

I went to go see "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and had no problem with it, even though it was written by a staunch Christian. The story was biggest allegory I'd ever seen, and I had no problem.

I am not threatened, and they feel threatened because they are insecure, and I am not.

That is the difference, I suppose.

Answer 8

When are people going to educate themselves?
'Educate themselves'?
As in Barble and Koran (aka Goat Herders' Guide to the Galaxy OR Camel Herders' Guide to the Galaxy)

Anything that goes against either of those two is blasphemy and the full weight of The Law of Ignorance will be bought to bear over anything that leads anyone into the temptation of exploration.

Answer 9

I was told that the movie its self is not bad it is the fear that it will lead children to want to read the books that is is based on. In the books God dies and obviously that is not a Christian idea. So as far as the movie goes I am not sure that it is hated it instead is the fear of where it will lead.

Answer 10

That is not why they hate the golden compass. if that were the case, they would also hate star wars, star trek, buck rogers, battlestar glactica, etc. etc. etc.

Supposedly the book is a criticism of organized religion, especially of christianity. I think that's why 'they' hate it.

Also, don't just say that you 'read somewhere' an article about another universe - state where you read this piece of information, or you look like you are just making stuff up.