Golden Compass

[Annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Lee Storm(God Is The Healing 
Force)" <n2fgc at ...> wrote:
>
> Tonks,
> 
> In a nutshell, The Golden Compass (which is the US name) is the 
first of a
> trilogy written by Philip Pullman who is a devout atheist.  The 
story is
> almost compelling, but it is, in total, a slam against the RC and 
any other
> Christian belief system...sometimes subtle and sometimes very 
blatant.  The
> second story in the trilogy is The Subtle Knife.
> 
> Pullman is hoping that the movie will compel young readers to want 
to get
> the book and the rest of the trilogy and that the work might swing 
them away
> from Christianity.

Annemehr:
Says who?  Pullman?  Or a really accomplished RL legilimens?  Anyway, 
it didn't work out that way with my teenaged daughters.  The older 
one had already read the whole series before she saw the movie, and 
wasn't swayed, and the younger one saw the movie but never picked up 
the book.  They both liked what they saw/read, though.

Lee:
> There is a blurb and explanation which can be found on
> snopes.com:
> <http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp>

Annemehr:
I'm not much impressed by that Snopes article.  None of its sources 
include Pullman himself.

A recent interview with Pullman:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21595083/

He *says* he's more against tyranny, yes including religious tyranny 
(and God knows the world has always had plenty of that).

Kind of makes me want to read the books myself, to see.  But I don't 
pay any attention to boycotts of ideas, and certainly don't enforce 
them on my kids.

Annemehr
for whom the joys of her childhood favorites, C.S. Lewis, Stephen 
King, and Dorothy Sayers, have quite palled (but what a combination, 
eh?)