[Newsletter] IMPORTANT PARENTAL ALERT

[RGC News]

PARENTAL ALERT:

 This weekend your local theater will

 be showing a movie aimed at children

 that will undermine the values

 you are instilling in them.

 

 THE GOLDEN COMPASS points children toward dishonesty, selfishness,
rebellion, atheism, and the desire to kill their mothers!

 

 THE GOLDEN COMPASS movie is based on a trilogy of children's books by
British author, Philip Pullman, who is an avowed atheist who has dedicated
his life to undermining Christianity and the Church, especially among young
readers. One of Pullman's goals in writing these books is to be the
"anti-Narnia" series.

 

 HELP US GET THE WORD OUT.

 

 Please encourage your friends and family members to avoid the movie. Unless
they are warned, they may be attracted by the preview for the movie that
features a little girl riding a polar bear and fighting what look like bad
guys.

 

 There are two reasons to avoid this movie and encourage others to do so as
well:

 

 FIRST: The message of the movie, and the books on which it is based, is
anti-Christian propaganda. THE GOLDEN COMPASS movie features a dishonest,
selfish and stubborn heroine and is the opening to a story that glorifies
atheism (primarily in the later two books). We believe in freedom of the
press. Anyone can write a book or screenplay that makes Christians look
sinister, stupid or wicked. That does NOT mean Christian parents need to buy
that message and feed it to their children.

 

 SECOND: In the movie business, the purchase of a ticket, or DVD, is a vote
for more of something. If a studio loses money on an expensive
anti-Christian adventure it is less likely to make more of the same. In this
case, THE GOLDEN COMPASS is the first part of a trilogy that gets worse as
it progresses. If THE GOLDEN COMPASS is a monumental flop the second and
third book may never get made into movies.

 

 While THE GOLDEN COMPASS movie is not as overtly anti-Christian as the
books by looking at some of the excerpts from the novel you can see what the
author hopes to teach children:

 

  *   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 heroine 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.

  *   In the book, the Church is depicted as an organization bent on power,
control and the torture of children by cutting.

  *   The heroine in the story turns from the Church when she realizes,
"there wasn't any God at all and...the Christian religion is a very powerful
and convincing mistake, that's all."

 Children learn scripts of behavior from the movies and entertainment. The
role model in this movie is Lyra who is commended for lying, stealing,
cheating, and trying to kill her mother.

 Even worse, the official website has an area where children can meet their
own daemon. It says: "To discover your very own Daemon, look into your
heart, and answer the following twenty questions openly and honestly. Your
true character and the form of your Daemon will be reveled."

 

 There are many wicked movies made every year, but THE GOLDEN COMPASS is
aimed at family audiences and is made to appear similar to Christian
allegory THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE.
Please help get the word out that this would be a movie to avoid.

 

 

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