Golden Compass brings out bigotry

From the movie review by Scott Holleran at BoxOfficeMojo.com...

The Golden Compass manages to evoke several popular movie franchises without establishing a theme of its own. Based on Philip Pullman's children's fantasy novels—roundly denounced as anti-religious by religious extremists—the star-studded adaptation starts off strong and trails off into the abyss. [emphasis added]

So Mr. Holleran thinks that a book written by an atheist, to further the principals of atheism would only be considered anti-religious by religious extremists? Pullman is quoted as saying, "every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don’t accept him," and who also said "I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief." Now why would anyone think him, anti-religious?

Other religious "extremists" (than myself) would include Chuck Norris...

I normally don't critique others' movies, but this one not only warrants critiquing but condemning. The reasons are it will very subtly push agnosticism, atheism, secularism and anti-Christian thoughts upon youthful minds and hearts.

So what would you call someone who so readily refers to people who recognizes the truth, as extremists? Such rush to pejorative language might lend credibility to the idea that Mr. Holleran himself, is fairly extreme in his own viewpoint.

Posted by Danny Carlton at December 3, 2007 6:44 AM