Posted on 10/26/2007 8:54:15 AM PDT by SvdByFaith
On Dec. 7, 2007, the movie "The Golden Compass," based on the first book in the fantasy trilogy entitled "His Dark Materials" by atheist Philip Pullman will be released in theaters throughout the world. Pullman wrote his fantasy trilogy because he was so upset by the Christian evangelism of C.S. Lewis in his wonderful series of Christian tales entitled "The Chronicles Of Narnia." Pullman is an avowed atheist who has dedicated his life to undermining Christianity and the Church among young readers. The film's release is only another example of a culture spiraling away from faith, a culture into which we must step in and declare truth.
Pullman represents God as a decrepit and perverse angel in his novels, who captures the dead in a "prison camp" afterlife. As one fallen angel tells one of the novel's young heroes:
The Authority, God, the Creator, the Lord, Yahweh, El, Adonai, the King, the Father, the Almighty – those were all names he gave himself. He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves – the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself. When the hero finally finds this "god," he is ultimately described as a "demented and powerless" creature that "could only weep and mumble in fear and pain and misery." The boy then kills this "god" by breaking him out of his crystal cell, thereby evaporating him. The only "god" in this universe is matter.
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Indeed. Real atheists don't go around wasting their breath on a God they think is imaginary, but there are a lot of bitter God-haters out there who are pretending to be atheists.
Similarly, I don't doubt there are real homosexuals out there who merely have an attraction toward people of the same gender. But those kinds of people don't parade down the in drag to celebrate whichever bodily orifice they like to use -- that behavior is limited to people who want to be 'in your face' about flaunting common moral conventions, or also fall among the God-haters above.
CC&E
I've been thinking about having a sweatshirt made saying:
"Nietzsche is dead" - God
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