Christians - Why are you all upset over the movie The Gold Compass?

Any movie that deviates from or criticizes the Catholic doctrine is seen as an attack on the religion. It's dumb. I mean, it's not as though The DaVinci Code or The Golden Compass will single-handedly bring down an entire subset of Christianity. Critics need to chill out.

Some atheists do. I honestly don't know what you're talking about though. I've never heard of The Golden Compass. If Christians want Hollywood to make better movies, then they should just stop spending their money on the bad ones. If enough people did that, then the movie industry would clean up. The Bible warns us against being lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God anyway. I get more upset that our public schools promote the virtues of atheism and make Christianity seem stupid. That's far more dangerous than any movie. Why don't more Christian parents get involved in their local school districts? You could make the situation better if you'd do that.

It seems that many of these people who are recently outraged are unaware that this book has been out for over 10 years (and has been on many school reading lists all that time). It also seems, from what I have seen posted that many of these people are not happy just staying home from the movie themselves. They want to tell everyone else what to do, even though they have never bothered to actually read the book themselves.

Bill Donohue is the Catholic Al Sharpton.

Honestly, it's because it's being marketed as the next "Chronicles of Narnia", when its main point is to teach children that God isn't real, that atheism is the only intelligent way.

Christian movies are marketed as such - it's pretty evident they're Christian. However, a movie that strongly promotes atheism (to the point of calling Christians or other faiths idiots and fools) is marketed as a theist analogy, to try to make it seem family-friendly. Along with that, it's being released around Christmas time. Why can't the marketing be done honestly? Do they really have to lie in order to suck children in?

It's not so much that I have a problem with the movie, but the whole marketing scheme and propaganda behind it. It's a free country, and short of things that are regulated by law you can say what you want...but don't market something falsely to children. That's just wrong.

no count if he's evil or no longer i won't decide, yet that he's an atheist is authentic. I even have achieved little or no analyze in this (yet I even have achieved some) which contain analyzing a partial interview with the "author" approximately this action picture. The "author" IS an atheist, who wrote this tale to "try against" the story of "Narnia-The Lion, The witch, and the dresser". that's his prefer to instruct infants remote from God and to atheism. the theory of the story is they kill God on the tip. This action picture has been condemned via maximum important religions and isn't one my grandchildren would be seeing...EVER!

The Christians do this type of idiotic thing all the time and you're surprised? They flipped out over the Harry Potter movies, so what else did you expect? Christians have no filtering system to tell reality from fiction. If they did, they wouldn't be Christian.

"Atheists don't really get upset over Christians themed movies"

with that statement I beg to differ.

Those who go see this Movie with the knowledge that this movie is insulting to any faith, it is showing their hatred and how much their upset with faith.

What I have said has nothing to do with your question Just a statement you said. I haven't really heard much but if the director has said he does this movie to show ppl God is this or that and the people are full aware of it then they should not see the movie out of respect of the people that they may know of faith.

Christians are not threatened by the movie. Christians are very in touch with the events of this world. We are highly persecuted for our beliefs. The media and public schools are all teaching "tolerance". Yet, christianity is not tolerated instead we are constantly attacked for our beliefs. Christians like to be educated on what we allow our children and ourselves to view and hear through television screens and cd players.

The bible says that Satan even knows there is a God. Um, so if Satan knows thier is a God and Christians know recognize thier is a God, then what is the debate? A day of judgement is coming and then we will then see that thier is a God.

Well it probably won't do any more damage than the Exorcist or movies where people overcome evil supposedly without the power of Jesus' name. I mean pretty much everything that comes out of Hollywood misrepresents God anyway. I think the concern is that "unbelief" will be planted in the children's minds at a very young age. Thing is God is capable of overcoming all that so there is no reason to fear whatever satan throws at us.

I guess because it comes in the form of an innocent children's movie and is not advertised as a movie that promotes atheism. The Passion of the Christ pretty much said what it was in the title and was advertised for what it was. The Compass doesn't advertise what it teaches and for those of us who do believe in God, we need to be told before we take our kids to it. It has nothing to do with money, just being honest and respectful.