Too Much, or Not Enough?
Friday October 26, 2007
It looks like the Catholic League are the first to turn their attention away from the Harry Potter series to about the Golden Compass, a movie adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, which, unlike Potter, is explicitly anti-Church. Ironically, their chief complaint seems to be that children who see the movie might read the books.
It gets funnier, though- Britain's Secular Society is protesting, too- specifically, that the anti-religious message has been watered down.
Comments
It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury is a fan of Pullman’s writings. Seems his “attacks” are on the misue of power rather than on Christianity as a philosophy.
Now I gotta get these books and read them for myself. Thanks for the alert!
Yeah, Chimera, the books are awesome–I’ve read the trilogy several times.
I think people should stop making Catholics look bad. Young children believe anything they read or see. I don’t think its wrong to watch these movies but I think it is the parent who needs to help the child in showing them what is correct and what is not. Hopefully when they are older they will be able to develop their own faith or turn away if that is what they wish. It is Catholic parents who should raise their children well so im not suprised when they don’t want to fill their children’s minds with such crap. It is just like any other situation in which the mother or father doesn’t want their child to feast on choclate bars all day but rather help the child understand why too much choclate is bad for you and allow them to try it and balance their diet.