Golden Compass

The headline reads: 'Golden Compass' draws ire of the Catholic League: Watchdog group says film pushes an atheist agenda.

I haven't yet read the His Dark Materials trilogy, but I'm damn well going to now that I've been told it's baaaaad. I checked the number of requests on this title, and they've sky-rocketed recently, so I'm not the only one. This bodes well for film at the box-office.

Better yet, I hear from one of my colleagues that there's an inflammatory email making the rounds (see here), and we can expect complaints.

I quite hope the film is just as atheistic in its world-view as its detractors would like us to believe. Hooray for a multiplicity of opinions expressed in books and film, I say. If we can have The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with its Christian underpinnings, why can't we have The Golden Compass with atheistic underpinnings.