By Valerie Rae Hanneman
There is a movie coming out this week called “The Golden Compass.” I am sending out this information for exactly that – information about the movie. What you choose to do with this information is completely up to you.
The trailers for this movie make it seem to be a movie in the same genre as the Narnia series, but it is actually the complete opposite of the Narnia series. “The Golden Compass” is the first of a trilogy written by Philip Pullman, an avowed atheist and a man who admits that he hates CS Lewis and the Narnia series. The trilogy written by Phillip Pullman is called, “His Dark Materials” and is touted to be an adventure pitting good against evil – but in this trilogy evil is God. Although Phillip Pullman denies that the trilogy is anti-Christian, the name of the evil empire is “Magisterum” a word that is used by Catholics to refer to the teaching authority of the Pope. In the books the evil institution is also called “The Church” and the higher-ups are the “Vatican Council.” Although the wording makes it appear to be anti-Catholic, it is an attack on all of Christianity. In the final chapters of the third book the children triumph over evil when they kill God.
At one point in the trilogy one fallen angel says: “The Authority, God, the Creator, the Lord, Yahweh, El, Adonai, the King, the Father, the Almighty – those were all names he gave himself. He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves – the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.”
I urge you to consider what others are saying about this movie. Truthorfiction.com has an excellent non-biased view of the movie. Go to www.truthorfiction.com select the search tab then type “Golden Compass” in the search line to read what it says about this movie.
This is another website to access regarding information on this movie:
http://familyactionorganization.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/the-golden-compass-fraud/
The Catholic League, which is urging all Catholics to boycott this film has this website:
http://www.catholicleague.org/catalyst.php?year=2007&month=October&read=2306
Although the anti-religious themes are “dumbed down” for the movie, many children seeing this movie will then want to read the trilogy – and the trilogy is far more anti-Christianity than is the movie.