How many know the truth about the new kids' movie- 'The Golden Compass'?

Origins: The Golden Compass, a fantasy film starring Nicole Kidman that

is scheduled to be released into theaters on 7 December 2007, has been

drawing fire from concerned Christians. The film is based on Northern

Lights (released in the U.S. as The Golden Compass), the first offering in

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy of children's books, a series

that 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.

Books of the trilogy have sold more than 15 million copies around the

world, with Northern Lights winning the Carnegie Medal for Children's

Literature in 1995 and in 2007 being awarded the 'Carnegie of Carnegies'

for the best children's book of the past 70 years. The Amber Spyglass, the

final book of the series, won The Whitbread Prize in 2001, making it the

first children's book to do so. The series' author, Philip Pullman, is an avowed atheist who has averred

that "I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there

is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by

the words 'spiritual' or 'spirituality.'" Critics of Pullman's books point

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