But it sure looks like them, doesn't it? Have you received a ton of emails (like I have) about how this movie (and the award-winning books it's based on) has an agenda that a lot of parents are spooked by?
So what's the problem?
Al Mohler has a great summary of the movie's quality, it's challenge to Christians and parents, and how to begin to think about it all. Samples:
Pullman's attack on biblical Christianity is direct and undeniable. He once questioned why his books attracted little controversy even as the Harry Potter books attracted so much. He told an Australian newspaper that what he is "saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God."...The direct attack on Christianity and God is toned down in the movie.
Pullman hates C. S. Lewis's work The Chronicles of Narnia. He told Hannah Rosin that Lewis's famous work is "morally loathsome" and "one of the most ugly and poisonous things I ever read." Narnia, he said, "is the Christian one . . . . And mine is the non-Christian."
I can only wonder how many parents and grandparents will allow children and young people to see the movie and then buy them the books -- blissfully unaware of what is coming in books two and three.
A good first step would be to take a deep breath. The Christian faith is not about to be toppled by a film, nor by a series of fantasy books. Pullman has an agenda that is clear, and Christians need to inform themselves of what this agenda is and what it means. At the same time, nothing would serve his agenda better than to have Christians speaking recklessly or unintelligently about the film or the books.
Plugged-In movie review is HERE. And from the Plugged-In article (HERE) on the movie and the books:
Other messages woven into this story exalt witchcraft, evolution, divination, homosexuality and premarital sex. Accompanying them are smoking, drinking, occasional mild profanity and moments of visceral violence.
That Pullman's message is blasphemous and heretical goes without saying. What's more diabolical...is the fact that he's aimed his well-written tale and its messages directly at children.
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