[mood: angry topic: the golden compass]
oh my gosh! do not go see the golden compass. It was created by atheist. its actually a book series in the last book kids kill God. i kinda have a question that i cant figure out. If their supposed to be atheist how did kids kill god? i mean thats stupid. and what the crap? why would you want to be atheist i mean gosh thats so freakin stupid!
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Well, this was an incredibly late reaction. Furthermore, its a book, the man can write about whatever he wants. I can't think of why a person would want to be a Christian, but that's your business.
If their supposed to be atheist how did kids kill god?
There's this concept in literature that's known as fantasy. It's basically writing about things that you do not believe could exist in the world as you know it, and still trying to make them believable.
And the merits of His Dark Materials have very little to do with "why [anyone] would want to be [an] atheist". Because it's just that-- a fantasy. It's not going to make me convert to atheism any more than Harry Potter is going to make me poke every owl I see to find out if it's carrying a letter surreptitiously. Northern Lights and its sequels are well-written fiction, not propaganda.
As quite a few non-fundie, non-batshit Christians have pointed out, the "God" figure killed in HDM isn't the Christian God (or even the creator of the HDM universe, and was, in fact, an impostor). Any Christian who feels threatened by HDM isn't especially strong in their faith in the first place.
Pro tip: Don't make the Harry Potter mistake--actually read the books before you comment on their content. You'll still be a fool, but at least you'll be an informed fool.
The "god" in GC is a fraud.
I thought they killed the fake pretender, so that the real deity could come back.
But, your post is still full of shit besides that observation.
I read the books (when I was 11) and am still a Christian. The god in those books does not even resemble the Christian god, and he doesn't appear in the first one anyway. Not that it matters, because in making the movie they completely got rid of the vital plot elements that connected it to the other books, so it ended up being a cute, if rather pathetic, children's story. Get over it already.
Gee golly gosh!
They don't kill Him, they release him from his prison, where he had been held captive by Metatron for thousands of years.
Er, what?
So if I don't believe in something, I can't write about it? I kinda thought that was the whole idea with fiction - that the sky was the limit and that you could invent or discuss anything, as long as you can make it believable?
Meh.
FAIL! They kill an angel who has been masquerading as a false god and let the real god out of the cage he's been kept in, and he just kind of disappears into the air with a metaphorical little wink.
I firmly believe that any Christian whose faith is threatened by a series of children's fantasy... well, maybe their faith wasn't really that strong in the first place.
Are you drunk? Cause I am. I can't keep a train of thought either. HOLY SHIT, what if a train of thought was actually a train? You'd ride it places n shit wouldn't you. I bet you would. Hey, ever ride a rickshaw? You should.
IF you refuse to see, or let your children see 'The Golden Compass' because it was written by a *gasp* Atheist, then I should expect that you refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance, since it was written by a Socialist.
@trendkill: No, you're not the only one.
Holy delayed shock Batman! Another example of being so weak you are threatened by a piece of FICTIONAL WRITING.
"oh my gosh!"
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"do not go see the golden compass. It was created by atheist. its actually a book series in the last book kids kill God. i kinda have a question that i cant figure out. If their supposed to be atheist how did kids kill god? i mean thats stupid. and what the crap? why would you want to be atheist i mean gosh thats so freakin stupid!"
All's fair in love and fiction. But then, your so-called 'God' killed millions unjustifiably in the Bible, so what's good for the goose, and all that jazz.
Besides, you know nothing . In the above pic (from the anime series "Ah! My Goddess"), Urd (in the background) is the product of her mother Hild (foreground) - the 'Daimakaicho' or Leader of Hell - being fucked by God.
>:D
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