Some people like to think anything that does not perfectly reflect their outlook must be part of a large conspiracy against them.
I think it’s just a fun, good fantasy story which does not and should not be consistent with other fantasy stories.That is usually said by people that have never seen the movie or read the books. They consider it "anti-Christian" just because it was written by an agnostic atheist and in the last book the children kill a character called God (even though he’s a phony, and not really God). Funny how Jesus is never mentioned but they automatically assume that it singles out Christianity. Can somebody say "paranoid persecution complex"?Yes, but not nearly as antiChristian as the other 2 books in that series.
But, take it as you see it. Just because the author intended it to be antiChristian, doesn’t mean you have to use it as antiChristian.It is a concept of an author who was a secularist. He was likely agnostic and had no intent of making it about religion. The Cheeses Crispies did that in order to have a rally point to show how persecuted they are.It’s the books. But it’s still a great story.
Saying it’s anti-Christan is like saying the heliocentric theory is (they used to think it was. That’s the story in the book is sort of based on, just more interesting!Don’t worry it’s all just on how you take it and percieve it. Like Harry Potter, at church they say it’s satanic but I don’t take it that way. I see it as an action hero, romance, movie to be honest. If that were the case everything would be satanic. I’m christian but I celebrate Halloween, not as the devil’s birthday but as a chance to go get free candy! How do you take it?It’s really more "Anti-Catholicism", since the Magisterium is the story’s analogue of the Catholic Church and they are severing children from their "souls" in their experiments…Well, if you generalize your view on movies… You can say that most movies are Anti_Christian, since most of the movies involve, violence, rape, language, adultery, murder… So how is Golden Compass different from all the other movies… ?The book is *anti christian* (so they say, but I haven’t seen anything from it) but they had to filter all the references to religion out or else Nicole Kidman wouldn’t want to play that bitch, and the american audience wouldn’t quite like it either.
All in all, I’d say, you see in it what you want to see in it. Same as with Narnia, it is. I am a staunch non-believer, but I enjoyed them all the same and didn’t see the connections with Christianity or religion, at least not the subtle ones.I saw it, and I think it’s an anti-Magisterium movie.
And the author was right about them. They did just what he was accusing them of . . . including some Protestant church lackeys! It would seem the Roman Catholic Church had a few Protestant cults in their pocket.
That’s why I think it’s best to trust God, and not religion. Jesus Christ is the Mediator, not a church.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Magisterium
Magisterium
–noun Roman Catholic Church.
the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.The author was an atheist and the book had definite anti-religious symbolism, not specifically Christian. The movie glossed over much of that in favor of a basic fantasy adventure. If you enjoy it, so what?
Most of those people have probably not seen it.The movie was way different than the books were because the studio did not want bad publicity. I would not really say the books were anti-Christian so much as it was anti-organized religion. God bless you.The Church only considered it an Anti-Chistian movie because the book it was based on was written by an atheist and the story centers around trying to undo the creation of consciousness when adam and eve ate the forbidden fruit. Personally, I loved the book. I hate the fact that Literature can’t even be considered "readable" when it covers a controversial subject. They did the same thing to the DaVinci code when it first came out.
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