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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