Has anyone objecting to The Golden Compass actually bothered to see it, or even read the books it's based on?

As a Christian, I have contemplated this very question. I am curious to see if the hoopla is legit but at the same time I don't care to financially support something that is reportedly so openly against my personal convictions.

I will probably check out the books at the library, for free, read them, and then decide if there is a need to censor them from my children. I may even borrow the movie from a friend and watch it before making a decision to not allow my children to see it.

My kids have their own minds. They see things in movies all the time that go against our morals and values. They point those things out to me and say how those things are wrong.

If, in fact, the warnings about The Golden Compass are true, my children will already see for themselves that this is not aligned with our beliefs and they will be able to withstand being negatively influenced by it. So, I'm not worried about them revolting from God because they are well grounded in their faith.

I heard a woman (representing a Catholic organization which is among those protesting the movie) on CNN Headline News explain their reasoning. The movie has apparently softened the atheistic message of the books where the Magisterium represents the (evil) Catholic Church. The woman (or her organization) is worried that children will see the movie, then want to read the books which, she is horrified to report, were written by an atheist and present the Church in an unflattering light! As an agnostic, I say, it's about time that an atheist has the opportunity to present an alternative viewpoint to "Narnia" and all the other pro-Christian movies with which the public has been inundated! Of course, we have also had "Harry Potter" with the gay wizard Dumbledore!

i did no longer locate something "satanic" in any of the dark factors books. (the different 2 are the state-of-the-artwork Knife and The Amber Spyglass) I did locate an atheistic topic in them. in actuality, in accordance to the author, there is not any "writer." God is actual merely the 1st being to come back into existance, yet he confident most of the different beings after him that it improve into him who created them. the two important characters finally end up killing him, even though it is seen extra as a relief because of the fact he improve into quite previous, kinda like euthanasia. It would not even play a huge section interior the e book. i stumbled on them mildly outstanding. I often study books returned if I take exhilaration in them. those are actually not repeaters. i think of that's in a different classification than Harry Potter or the DaVinci Code because of the fact those have been written particularly to entertain. The dark factors author has publicly pronounced that those books are his reaction to the Christian-heavy Chronicles of Narnia.

I have read quotes from the author of the books. He's an avowed atheist who wrote the books to try and bring down the catholic faith...I understand the movie has been watered down to not specifically have the "bad" guys be the catholic church. I would never read his books or suggest them to my boy...I may go see the movie and if it looks okay then take the boy...it's kinda funny that it's the mirror image of Narnia, which was very much about christian redemption and resurrection...when I heard they were making compass I found it interesting that someone would make a narnia type movie but from an avowed atheist instead of a christian perspective...buyer beware I suppose.

It's not called "blind faith" for nothing.

Those three monkeys keep springing to mind when this question comes up. You know, the "see no evil", "hear no evil", "speak no evil" monkeys? That's what I envision when I think of these people who have not personally read the books or seen the movie, and not only refuse to see it, but advise others not to.

Not that I mind, though. The more they carry on, the more people will go to the movie to see what all the fuss is about. And kids! Wow. Kids like nothing more than to sneak off to see the very things their parents don't want them to see.

This Saturday I will go and see it, not because it looks interesting but because I hear that people should boycott it.

Just because someone disagrees with the premise of a movie do not mean that it should be banned.

I hate that. It sounds like people want to restrict any type of speech and have selective speech.

It is called FREE SPEECH for a reason.

Bring on the thumbs down religious people that object to the movie

Christian, writer, fantasy fan here.

Great books, all.

I will be seeing the movie, and more than likely purchasing it.

I am also writing a column for my church newsletter in support of the movie. We'll see how THAT turns out.

I just wanted y'all to see that we're NOT all psycho nutcases.

Have a great night!

This is one of the reasons that I have taken no stance against the Golden Compass. I haven't seen it, I don't know the plot... how the hell can I be sure that it's against Christianity or religion in general?

... That, plus I'm not Christian to begin with...

No. They're all basing their opinons of both the books and the movie on what they've heard others say about it....

Religion happens when you let someone else do your thinking for you....

World Nut Daily and Faux News can come up with great stuff.