Comments on: “The Golden Compass”

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:12:51 +0000

Seems like most people are going for that title

I think the difference between “the Golden Compass” and the Da Vinci Code is the Helen Lovejoy factor – won’t somebody think of the children?!!!

These types don’t like competition, the idea that something else might influence their kids before they’re fully indoctrinated into their parent’s way of thinking.

By: Cian

Cian — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:06:59 +0000

The ‘Da Vinci Code’ did pretty well despite it’s peculiar take on Jesus, so I don’t know if being faithful to the book would really have been all that commercially disastrous. The very next day after posting this I saw a ‘debate’ on Fox ‘News’ where various ‘concerned’ types tried to scare parents away from taking their kids to it, so it looks like the film’s going to dogged by this issue even after the makers sold out the book’s character.

I haven’t started the essay yet. I’ll be arguing that a determined world is worth living in.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:43:35 +0000

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t really isn’t it?

Produce the books faithfully and you can’t market them in the US, or extirpate the atheism and you have the exact same wackos claiming it was only done to spread the “agenda” (how come the atheists and gays are the only ones with agendas?) by more covert means.

You finished your human nature and free will essay yet?