chambers08 wrote:I hate the Golden Compass. They're trying to kill God so I will never touch the books or get close to seeing the movie, but that's just my opinion.
Alright, I am going to write this, but already I know it's going to taken the wrong way. Regardless. Here goes.
Warning: None of the following material is meant as a personal attack towards the view holder or the view, but instead the close-mindedness of a culture that is cutting its community off, and trying to make a statement.
It blows my mind that people can be so close-minded. And chamber08, I'm not just taking about this comment, but the world that has taken this side with you. I was brought up Catholic (father) mixed with Presbyterian (mother), and I still find these books intriguing and ultimately one of my favorite series.
The way Christians approach the rest of the world astounds me. And for all the years that prayers and hymns were drilled into my head I have come to the point where I have made my choices, and I have not allowed myself to stay in a dark and isolated place that the church leaders would keep their followers in. It seems to me that so many times the church asks the congregation to be a pack of ignorant, uneducated, lemmings that how one would actually assimilate into the real world is beyond me.
Allowing yourself to held down, and closing yourself off from the greatness that is modern literature (well...some of it) because the church is misrepresenting a certain stance is so far behind my scope of vision that I struggle through these sorts of responses.
Look, just because I read a book by an atheist does not mean I am going to become a devout atheist.
Just because I read a book by a Christian (J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, etc.) does not mean I am going to become a devout Christan.
I respect that there are some people that choose not to read these books based an a level headed bit of knowledge. The people that say, "Look, that's great, but I choose to keep those sorts of things out of my head. I know that there are people that feel differently, and I know that had I chosen to read these I would not go straight to Hell, but at the same time, I just don't want to." That's great, fine and dandy. But as a reader, and a person in the real world you recognize the difference between fact and fiction, which leads you to you own conclusions. You should be able to differentiate between what you think is right and wrong. And just because you don't agree with someone else's opinion does not mean you should close yourself off from a great piece of literature.
And by the way, they don't actually try to kill "God". But if people who claimed that had actually read the books really had, they might have a more accurate picture of the novels.
Thanks for listening.
