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The Golden Compass movie is out soon. It's the first part of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials - specifically, the first book in the trilogy, Northern Lights - made into a film.
This trilogy is one of the most overtly anti-Christian pieces of literature in decades, and yet it's also only second to Harry Potter in popularity.
Article about it in The Telegraph which is one of Britain's biggest newspapers.
Article by Peter Hitchens. Hitchens is a journalist and outspoken Christian, and he is the most vocal opponent of Pullman's anti-Christianity.
Essentially, it seems Pullman's intention was to start the trilogy in the same place as the Narnia books - ie, it starts with a girl hiding in a wardrobe - then reverse it completely. Pullman is basically the anti-Lewis, and has claimed that the Narnia books are "disgusting and sickening," and he's quoted as saying: "'I hate the Narnia books, and I hate them with deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling-away."
How effective a tool do you think this film/trilogy will be in leading young children away from God?
I should also add that there is a move in England to make these books a part of the national curriculum from primary school upwards - basically, from 7 years and up. Am immensely concerned about that.
This trilogy is one of the most overtly anti-Christian pieces of literature in decades, and yet it's also only second to Harry Potter in popularity.
Article about it in The Telegraph which is one of Britain's biggest newspapers.
Article by Peter Hitchens. Hitchens is a journalist and outspoken Christian, and he is the most vocal opponent of Pullman's anti-Christianity.
Essentially, it seems Pullman's intention was to start the trilogy in the same place as the Narnia books - ie, it starts with a girl hiding in a wardrobe - then reverse it completely. Pullman is basically the anti-Lewis, and has claimed that the Narnia books are "disgusting and sickening," and he's quoted as saying: "'I hate the Narnia books, and I hate them with deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling-away."
How effective a tool do you think this film/trilogy will be in leading young children away from God?
I should also add that there is a move in England to make these books a part of the national curriculum from primary school upwards - basically, from 7 years and up. Am immensely concerned about that.