The Golden Compas

Okay, so I just read a bulletin on myspace that my dear friend Kristen posted about the movie "The Golden Compas" and as much as I do love her, I have to say that her bulletin was extremely irritating too me.
Bulletin:
I will admit that when I first saw the previews for The Golden Compass it looked like it could be an interesting movie. Deep down though...something just didnt seem right, and I then heard there was controversy surrounding the movie so I decided to see what it was. I was shocked. The Golden Compass is orginated from a book written by an atheist. It is an attack from the enemy trying to steer children away from believing in God and seeing him as a mean cruel dictator who plays games with the lives of people. It is Anti-church and Anti-Christian, and it looks innocent but it is deeply seeded in athiest Anti-God themes. Please read the following from FOXnews.com" The movie, “The Golden Compass,” is adapted from the first novel in a trilogy called “His Dark Materials” by English author Philip Pullman, an outspoken atheist. Critics fear that the film, due out in December, will encourage children to read the anti-Church series.""These books denigrate Christianity, thrash the Catholic Church and sell the virtues of atheism," said Bill Donohue, president and CEO of the Catholic League.The film itself is unlikely to offend — because New Line Cinema has tried to keep religion out of it, focusing on the story of a little girl named Lyra and her journey within a strange, parallel universe."The anti-religious themes get progressively stronger with each book in the trilogy; in the final installment, the characters succeed in killing a character called God — who turns out to be a phony, and not God after all. The series has soared to the top of bestseller lists in the U.K. and other countries but has not caught on in the United States.Pullman has not been shy in the past about verbalizing his beliefs — or, some might say, nonbeliefs — and his intentions in writing the "Dark Materials" novels.The novelist has said they are in response to C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia," the popular children's fantasy series of which "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is the first book — written by Lewis to teach Christian ideals to kids."I loathe the 'Narnia' books," Pullman has said in previous press interviews. "I hate them with a deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling away." He has called the series "one of the most ugly and poisonous things" he's ever read.In spite of complaints about the forthcoming film, Pullman fans and atheists are still excited about the exposure it will give his novels. They say the American literary market is sorely lacking material for those who don't believe in God, and they scoff at the idea that the series is hazardous to children."Philip Pullman and I would say it is religion that poisons everything," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the atheist advocacy group the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and a co-host of Freethought Radio, a talk show that recently went national on Air America Radio.

Okay, now that you've read that, I honestly think that if a person is too be so persuaded by religon and others opinions its somewhat niave. I understand that many people are raised to be 100% against anything that may even be drawn ever so slightly by atheism, but come on! It says right there in her posted bulletin that it is not religous in context! If people can draw a great story that wont offend people from something that would, what's the harm in that!?!?! I personally think it's very narrow minded to act based on anothers opinion, especially on something like this! Not only that, but too ME, this is trying to shove ones own religion and believes-however un-original- down MY throat!!!

Thank GOD we aren't all like that, for their would never be an original thought or idea, how fucking boring!!!!!