Now the bad guy did look like a Catholic Archbishop.
2007-12-15 16:41:41 · 17 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The little girl, Lyra, is kinda like John Connor. She has a destiny to fulfill.
2007-12-15 16:43:14 · update #1
LMAO Thanks debbie2 for bringing 'satan' into it. LMFAO!
2007-12-15 16:57:37 · update #2
Possibly you're interested in a Jewish view...
http://www.aish.com/societyWork/arts/The_Golden_Compass_Controversy.asp
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2007-12-16 02:38:10 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The attack stems from what the authors has said in some interviews in the past and what takes place in future books as well as what takes place in this book, but not the movies. The stated he is a Atheist and would like nothing better than to kill God. Which he does in his later books. So glad fiction is what it is and God is now and ever shall be!
2007-12-15 16:46:50 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I am a Christian who saw the movie.
No, there is no God killing in the movie. There was a direct attack on the Roman Catholic Church though. Since I am not a Roman Catholic, and after reading a few interviews made by Philip Pullman I found that he agreed with my own views on the Roman Catholic Church.
The attack directly on the Roman Catholic Church is found in the oppressive and morally sick actions of the Magisterium. I looked the word up, and by definition it was a slap in the face of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church - who I see as being more evil than any Atheist in the world.
This is the definition of 'Magisterium' :
–noun Roman Catholic Church.
the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
[Origin: 1585–95; < L: magistery]
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Magisterium
So I think what happened is that the Roman Catholic Church had become aware of the author's use of the personal term which blatantly refers to them, and decided to pull all the strings that they could to defeat the movie as being a blockbuster. Being a Protestant, I look closely at the Protestant Churches that also followed the Roman Catholic Church's lead, because I see them as being ridiculously reactionary.
So I give a lot of credit to Pullman for exposing the Roman Catholic Church as being exactly the controlling, demonizing, overbearing political organization that the movie portrays them as being.
2007-12-15 17:08:25 · answer #3 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I am a Christian and I just went and saw the Golden Compass this evening. It was pretty good. I don't understand what all the hype is about. It was not an attack on God or faith or anything that I could tell. It was just another fantasy movie. I think some people blow things way out of proportion
2007-12-15 16:47:17 · answer #4 · answered by Bride of Christ 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
They don't kill "God" until the third book in the series. It's not necessarily the movie people have a problem with but rather the author, the author's beliefs, and the story he wrote.
Honestly, I don't see the issue. If they don't like it, they shouldn't see it. There are plenty of relgious movies that I have chosen not to see, but I don't have a public outcry about it.
2007-12-15 16:45:14 · answer #5 · answered by eris 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋
So in the book, I don't know about the movie, the two 13 year old characters kill the character called 'Yahweh' (wonder who that is referring to) and then proceed to have consensual sex.
Two 13 year olds having sex.
And....that's not a problem for anyone?
2007-12-15 16:46:32 · answer #6 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Because apparently only religion is allowed to use allegory to tell a story ;)
I am willing to bet that most Christians would have no idea what the movie was about if it wasn't for all the controversy and those silly little mass forwards being sent around.
And yes, the baddies did look kinda like Catholic bishops but that's about it.
2007-12-15 16:46:09 · answer #7 · answered by Pitchy 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Everybody and their mom is an attack on Christianity except for peeps who bring guns to church, that's just a tragedy.
2007-12-15 16:48:29 · answer #8 · answered by Christian Froot 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Philip Pullman is the first person who said it was an attack on organized religion. And he was the god damn author of the book.
2007-12-15 16:46:01 · answer #9 · answered by Small Victories 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I take it you haven't read the books, and are unaware that the author has described them as the "anti-Narnia". That isn't going to stop me from seeing the movie, any more than it stopped me from reading the trilogy, but it's pretty much an established fact that they were written in part to attack religion.
2007-12-15 16:45:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋