Monday, October 15, 2007

Is it to be believed?!

I just caught a snippet of one of those "news" shows designed to outrage, and it worked. I was outraged at the guests who were expressing their outrage. The topic? A movie coming out, entitled The Golden Compass (I had to edit my post, because I'd called it the Golden Needle. Needle, compass, whatever...)

According to the guests, the movie -and moreso the books upon which it is based- is "dangerous" because it promotes atheism. One of the guests went so far as to pretend to care about freedom of speech by saying that of course everyone has the right to promote his ideas, BUT the author/publisher/producer should have to be up-front about what they're trying to do - in this case, to promote atheism to children.

Did I miss something? I haven't been in a bookstore for a while. Have "This is Christian propaganda" stickers been placed on the covers of the Narnia books?

I feel ill.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It promotes Atheism???

OH MY G....

Wait. That was a close one.

Supreme Entity forbid that a person offers another idea about the nature of the universe.

dianejwright said...

Damned straight! What the hell is going on around here anyway?

Then...there's this:
http://bubbleheadohmy.blogspot.com/2008/01/sorry-folks-but-who-could-resist.html