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One More On "Golden Compass"

Wow. This "Golden Compass" controversy has really taken flight! In case you missed it, the movie (and books) were deemed "Dark and Dangerous" for presenting anti-religious themes in a child-accessible package. To be fair, it was also cited for comments made by its openly atheist author, Philip Pullman. For myself, the primary effect of the furor was to prompt me to ask Santa for the trilogy. I think I have a good chance of getting it. :-)

The best collection of critical articles were posted over at the Sci Fi Catholic website. They do a great job of listing the legitimate articles written on the movie (and books), all from a Christian point of view. It is an excellent site! On a side note, who knew that there were Catholic-based science fiction websites? I learn things every day!

Finally, and this should be my last post on the subject (until I actually see the movie), here is a five minute preview of the movie. Five minutes can't be too dark and dangerous, right?

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Posted by Fred on December 5, 2007 12:57 PM
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Really, I aints against freedom of expression or speech, but if you talk bad about a church why not talk about all churches. They let movies potray the Catholic church as evil and overruling. But when have you seen a movie that shows the jews as evil and overruling, or muslims(well better not say) and not have either one of those faiths come up and complaint, boycott and burn things over it. So why complaint if catholics do it. I say let them.

-- Posted by: mommy@mommy.com at December 5, 2007 2:22 PM

It's funny, I read the Golden Compass and didn't see anything overtly anti-Catholic.

What I did see is a very anti-theocracy message. The book was very explicit about how oppressive a theocracy could be.

I've even started reading The Subtle Knife, and I'm still not seeing any overt attacks on Catholicism. I'm seeing a lot of jabs at a church run government.

But, hey, that's just what I see.

-- Posted by: Josh at December 5, 2007 3:38 PM

Hey, thanks for the link. I didn't know my list was the "best," but I was kind of thinking, "Man, the rest of the Catholic blogosphere is talking about this, and this is my territory, so I better get on it." Plus, I was stuck in a motel and had nothing else to do.

-- Posted by: D. G. D. Davidson at December 5, 2007 10:30 PM

This has been an interesting saga, for sure. If nothing else, I have a new blog set up in my reader (...that would be SciFiCatholic.com)

:-)

-- Posted by: Fred at December 6, 2007 1:19 PM

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