Critics Slam 'Golden Compass' Movie for 'Castrating' Anti-Church Themes

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Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:11 am Agree: 4   Disagree: 5

I saw the movie, and it didn't carry anti-Christian god themes at all....and even if it did, so what?

People in meta-physics belive in spirit guides, guardian angels, and aniimal guides. What I saw in the film were animal guides. Many native americans believe in animal guides, they're used as totems.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't understand what "christians & catholics" are so concerned about. When this country was founded, a serious atheist campaign was ensued. Native Americans were sent to schools to be educated and learn about a new christian god. They were punished if they uttered their native language, or prayed to the great spirit....or their god. Atheism is the non-belief in god and the suppression of religion. Both Christianity and Catholicism are guilty of that with both Native Americans and the Africans that were brought to new America.

And their mad??? You're mad?? Well, sorry. That a book/movie offers a concept where children as acknowledged as having more knowledge as an adult, where animal spirits/guides are listened to and not "eaten" or raised on a farm and shown their place in this world...where people strive to believe in the cosmic....it's beyond me that Christians and Catholics (based on their history) are appalled.

I'm glad to see that "out of the box thinking" is shown on the screen. Bravo!!!! I say this for my Sioux father who was beaten by the nuns for crying for missing his Sioux family while away at boarding school, and for my Sioux sister whose hair was cut by nuns because she was caught speaking Sioux by the nuns and kept from her family for two months visitation by the nuns who also cut her hair. The Sioux only cut their in time of mourning.

If Christians and Catholics are afraid...you live in fear and you exert fear. This book/movie is fiction, yet encompasses much world wide belief in spirituality. Bravo!!!!