The Golden Compass

Have you heard of this movie? I had not heard of it until this morning when I read about it in an email. There are so many false emails that circulate, from "Help me find my child" to "George Carlin Said This..." So I usually don't follow up with the "forward this to everyone on your contact list." But after checking this out I am certainly sending out a warning about this movie, The Golden Compass, which was made to kill God in the minds of children, by children killing God in the story. Of course, they don't advertise that part when they promote the movie.

There are excerpts taken from circulating emails that Snopes.com has come across. You can read the entire page yourself by clicking here, but this is what they says is the origin of this movie. And of course I encourage you to do some research on it yourself. Epsecially if you are planning on buying the books or taking your children to see this movie.

The Golden Compass is a fantasy film starring Nicole Kidman that is scheduled to be released into theaters on 7 December 2007, has been drawing fire from concerned Christians. The film is based on Northern Lights (released in the U.S. as The Golden Compass), the first offering in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy of children's books, a series that follows the adventures of a streetwise girl who travels through multiple worlds populated by witches, armor-plated bears, and sinister ecclesiastical assassins to defeat the oppressive forces of a senile God.

Books of the trilogy have sold more than 15 million copies around the world, with Northern Lights winning the Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature in 1995 and in 2007 being awarded the 'Carnegie of Carnegies' for the best children's book of the past 70 years. The Amber Spyglass, the final book of the series, won The Whitbread Prize in 2001, making it the first children's book to do so.

The series' author Philip Pullman, is an avowed atheist who has averred that "I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words 'spiritual' or 'spirituality.'" Critics of Pullman's bookspoint to the strong anti-religion and anti-God themes they incorporate, and although literary works are subject to a variety of interpretations, Pullman left little doubt about his intentions when he said in a 2003 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald that "My books are about killing God." (Conservative British columnist Peter Hitchens labeled Pullman "The Most Dangerous Author in Britain" and described him as the writer "the atheists would have been praying for, if atheists prayed.")

Psalm 14:1 "The fool hath said in his
heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works,
there is none that doeth good

Psalm 53:1 "The fool hath said in his
heart, there is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable
iniquity; there is none that doeth good."

Proverbs 10:8 "The wise in heart will
receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall."