So, today I got another one of those emails, subject line: "Warning, Bad Children's Movie Coming Out!". I sort of stole the idea for this post from Mary's cousin, but I don't remember his blog name or url, so I can't give credit completely.
Of course, this emails was about the Golden Compass. A new children's fantasy movie similar to Narnia, in which each character has an animal spirit guide... and blah, blah blah. The biggest concern people have is that the author is a huge atheist. In the movie, he kills some sort of Lion character (the symbolic Christ character in Narnia), and people are all up in arms about it. People are worried that their kids are going to get attached to this movie, and then when they get older, the values in this movie will make them give up their Christian background, and go the way of the atheist.
Let me say this, mine, nor anyone I know's religious beliefs were shaped by a children's book/movie. I didn't realize that those books had religious undertones until I was much older. My boss is an atheist, and he read the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe when he was a kid, how could he turn out atheist?
The whole thing is just dumb to me. If the argument was that the director is a huge atheist, and we shouldn't take our kids to the movie so we don't support this guy, I would still have a problem with that, but I would at least understand the argument. But the argument that this movie is going to turn your 7 year old into a non-believer, is beyond me.
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And heaven help we let our children see anything except faith strengthening cinema. Please... I love how this is the hot topic, so the emails keep coming. Tanner, let's start an email forewarding frezie about soumething...you write it, and have a moral basis for doing so, and i will send it out with a "please foreward this to everyone you know, and put your signature at the bottom", yeah let's do that.
well said tanner.
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