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The Golden Compass: Is religious criticism warranted?

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No
51% 297 votes Total: 580 votes
Yes
49% 283 votes

by Shannon Lisa

Created on: December 16, 2007

It's just a movie, it's just a movie...it's just a movie. It's bells and whistles people. It is pretend. You are stupid if you give more to this movie than that. It is a story, a thought, and idea in someone else's head. If that person happens to be 'atheist' then of course the movie is going to slightly reflect that kind of life perspective, it was written by that person.

This movie isn't the Bible, so why should Christian people be afraid of it, or believe or listen to it at all. It was written by a person. It is a make-believe story of fantasy and fiction. It doesn't exist to teach your children anything other than to enjoy and have fun watching it.

It may be based on books, but again...those books were written by a person. A human being. The Bible was also written by humans yes, but parts of it were written by the slightly more than human son of God, Jesus. The rest of it was written by people who were closely related to Jesus, people who were in direct contact with God. If that is the case then this movie and the books it is based upon should pose no threat to a well established religion that has a history spanning over 2,000 years....longer than that even if you count the fact that Judaism has been around longer than Christianity and Christianity has its roots in Judaism. Even more of a reason for religious people to GET OVER IT. This movie is brand spanking new in comparison to your thousands of years old religion. This story is much newer than your story. These books....they don't even hold a candle to your book.

Let it go, religious fanatics. You are only making yourselves look foolish.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the slight decline in the amount of actual Christian and Catholic people in the world? Is it just me or is Paganism in its many forms on the rise? Is it just me...or are Christian people being taken less and less seriously by the rest of the world because of their own actions? No, it isn't just me. That is fact.

Christian and Catholic people protest the dumbest things..like movies for example. Remember when 'Dogma' came out? My goodness, the hate it spawned in so many Catholics the world over. It wasn't even mocking your religion, it was trying to get people to see the big picture. That movie taught the valuable lesson that God tried to teach us so long ago...that most Christians and Catholics ignore in order to be jerks...the supreme rulers of the world...God tried to and continues to try to teach us that it doesn't matter what faith

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