A new pro-athesit, anti-Christian movie is being aimed at our children this Christmas season.... Actress Nicole Kidman and James Bond actor Daniel Craig star in the movie adapted from the first novel in a fantasy trilogy called "His Dark Materials" by self-described atheist and anti-Catholic author Philip Pullman.
The series focuses on a 12-year-old girl named Lyra who sets on a quest in search of answers after her best friend is kidnapped. She travels to a parallel universe where everyone's soul is physically manifested into an alter ego, or "daemon," in animal form.
In the story, a malevolent governing body called "the Church," which answers to the "Vatican Council," is known to kidnap children for experimentation. With the help of a golden compass that reveals a coded answer to any question asked by the user, Lyra, by the trilogy's end, gets to the bottom of the missing children and kills a character called "God."
"These books denigrate Christianity, thrash the Catholic Church and sell the virtues of atheism," asserted Bill Donahue of The Catholic League, who earlier this month called on Christians to boycott the movie.
In the movie, which has been marketed as a children's fantasy film, many of the direct references to the Catholic Church have been relabeled. For instance, "the Church" is referred to as "the Magisterium." The film makers hope to fool children and parents into thinking the movie is a simple adventure story when the real aim is to destroy faith in God and promote atheism.
The author, Philip Pullman, who is an honorary associate at Britain's National Secular Society has also admitted that "His Dark Materials" is a response to Christian author C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia.""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."
"The Golden Compass" is scheduled to hit U.S. theaters on Dec. 7, 2007.
