Don't pay to see The Golden Compass, coming to theaters in December this year. Although it may look like a nice, family-friendly, fantasy movie to see during the holidays... it is actually a story written by a very outspoken atheist who's stated goal is to "kill God in the minds of children."
The book (that the movie is based on) follows the adventures of a streetwise girl who travels through multiple worlds populated by witches, armor-plated bears, and sinister ecclesiastical assassins to defeat the oppressive forces of a senile God. (In the end of the trilogy the children kill God and everyone can do as they please.)
The most troubling part is that the movie, apparently, has been sanitized of the most offensive parts... specifically with the goal of using the movies as bait to get children to read the books. The thought is that if Christian parents take their children to see the movie, and then find nothing so bad about the movie, they'll then buy the books for their kids.
This is extreemly dangerous. So please remember that Phillip Pullman, the author of the books and an avowed atheist said specifically that, "My books are about killing God." As one of the novel's pagan characters puts it, "Every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling."
I hope we see some evangelical groups announcing a boycott of the movie very soon.
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