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Religious nutjobs denounce 'The Golden Compass'

Posted On: December 6th 2007
Posted By: Bryan Kremkau
Source: Yahoo
Why can't religions & religious cults just leave everyone alone and go back worshiping their invisible god? - BK

Christian groups slam new Kidman children's movie

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Christian groups are up in arms here over a new children's film starring Nicole Kidman and based on an award-winning novel by British author Philip Pullman, accusing it of being anti-religious.

"The Golden Compass" which opens here Friday is the film version of "The Northern Lights," the first book in Pullman's "Dark Materials" fantasy trilogy aimed at teenage readers.

The books by confirmed agnostic Pullman trace the fate of a young girl, Lyra, as she becomes drawn into an apocalyptic battle of good against evil, meeting a host of strange characters along the way including a polar bear, voiced in the film by Ian McKellan.

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Posted on: December 6th 2007. Posted by: JohnJaySmith
I just love that any movie that's even remotely against, or even questioning, of religion is somehow oppressing the vast majority of the population that's religious. Meanwhile, religious movies that tell the minority (non-religious) that they're doomed to spend an eternity in hell are somehow NOT oppressive.
 
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