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I have read the books. I would not recommend that people of faith stay away from these stories, simply because to do so would be to admit that their beliefs are too shaky to stand any contrary thoughts.

It's a shame, really, that so many people live in fear of changing their minds about even the smallest part of their religious ideas, unless the source of change is their chosen pulpit. There is a possible richness of thought that is missed because of this fear - as if they expect God to send them to Hell on Judgement Day for even allowing a single unauthorized idea to form while watching a movie.

Some people really need to get themselves a life. It's only a movie for cryin' out loud.

I totally agree with the above two comments. I teach my child to be a critical thinker and not just be a sponge who doesn't bring their thinking processes with them as they navigate their life's journies, including religion and spirituality.

Besides,there are many movies (current and past) that depict murder, unethical behavior, adultry and so forth. Why aren't these movies being boycotted? The whole movie industry could be brought to its knees. Somehow there is some irony here.

The above three posts "speak my mind!"

Shalom

Well, it's easy to be neutral-to-laudatory about a work that is not in conflict with your core values and world view. However, liberal humanist types get rather vocal about Christain themed/influenced films or books that oppose or compromise their PC dogma.

Christians have a right to do so as well. And since Christians take seriously the biblical admonitions to bring up thier children in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord," they have a sacred obligation to guard them against moives or books that undermine biblical values; since moral and spiritual principles are the stuff out of which a life is built.

So this is not knee-jerk, superficial censorship for biblical Christians, but a responsible attempt to guard the exposure of innocent and immature minds. I'm an avid SiFi enthusiast, but I am able to deal effectively with the occasional unbiblical religious/values themes - and there are movies that I will not watch at all. Those that have strong anti-biblical content or dark themes I avoid. If this is true for an adult, surely impressionalbe young souls must be guarded against such themes. So I would never expose my children to media that would have a negative, ungodly influence on their thinking. If you are so liberal that you have no standards, and care little about what young children watch, I guess you are free to fill their little minds with whatever "exciting" junk comes along. Right? Even in the area of sex education there is the idea of age-appropriateness.

You lib blogophiles are so prone to jump all over Christians when they seek to protect their youth from influences that could harm them in their spiritual and psycho-social development. Do you have ANY lines that can't be crossed in terms of what you would allow your children (or anyone) to watch? If so, you should be able to sympathize with the concerns of Christians regarding THEIR lines. If you aren't sympathetic with their concerns, you have transgressed your universal tolerance dogma.

Well, it's easy to be neutral-to-laudatory about a work that is not in conflict with your core values and world view. However, liberal humanist types get rather vocal about Christain themed/influenced films or books that oppose or compromise their PC dogma.

Christians have a right to do so as well. And since Christians take seriously the biblical admonitions to bring up thier children in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord," they have a sacred obligation to guard them against moives or books that undermine biblical values; since moral and spiritual principles are the stuff out of which a life is built.

So this is not knee-jerk, superficial censorship for biblical Christians, but a responsible attempt to guard the exposure of innocent and immature minds. I'm an avid SiFi enthusiast, but I am able to deal effectively with the occasional unbiblical religious/values themes - and there are movies that I will not watch at all. Those that have strong anti-biblical content or dark themes I avoid. If this is true for an adult, surely impressionalbe young souls must be guarded against such themes. So I would never expose my children to media that would have a negative, ungodly influence on their thinking. If you are so liberal that you have no standards, and care little about what young children watch, I guess you are free to fill their little minds with whatever "exciting" junk comes along. Right? Even in the area of sex education there is the idea of age-appropriateness.

You lib blogophiles are so prone to jump all over Christians when they seek to protect their youth from influences that could harm them in their spiritual and psycho-social development. Do you have ANY lines that can't be crossed in terms of what you would allow your children (or anyone) to watch? If so, you should be able to sympathize with the concerns of Christians regarding THEIR lines. If you aren't sympathetic with their concerns, you have transgressed your universal tolerance dogma.

Nikos, Remember, this is a movie, just like sifi
is a type of movie. These are just movies, they are not attacks.

By the bye, why aren't you picketing all those movies depicting murder, exploitation, adultry, gambling, extortion, brutality etc.Hardly is there a movie that doesn't exploit more than one of the above. These are clearly in opposition to Christian values. I don't know how you sleep at night with so much wrong to correct. And no,I am not a flaming lib.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7115300.stm
Golden Compass author hits back
Warning: This story contains plot spoilers
By Julian Joyce
BBC News

The author of the book on which the new film The Golden Compass is based has hit back at critics who accuse him of peddling "candy-coated atheism".

Philip Pullman dismissed as "absolute rubbish" accusations by the US-based Catholic League that the film promotes atheism and denigrates Christianity.

"I am a story teller," he said. "If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon."

The author deserves to be heard from also. People are getting too worked up over nothing.

we read to learn, we hear to learn, we watch to learn, to study to learn -

learn: "to acquire knowledge or skill or a behavioral tendency"

what are small/adolescent children 'learning' from those sources mentioned above when their theme is hatred, violence, sexuality, immorality and the like? i don't believe any one single exposure to such would or probably pervert a child but most likely repeated exposures to such would surely have an impact.
the humanist/secularist do not grasp, comprehend or desire to understand Gods call to His people to be separate form the world. if Christians are partaking in all the worlds indulgences, how can they possibly be identified as children of God ?
trash in.....trash out !
we should fill our minds with Gods word and when trash enters in, the searing truth of His word would give us victory over sin.

I won't be encouraging the parents of my grandchildren to be taking them to see this movie. This is what Snopes says about it

http://snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp