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Golden Compass Spin Doctors

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Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today as follows:

"The spin doctors for ‘The Golden Compass' are working overtime to rescue the movie from Philip Pullman's agenda. Here's a sampling:

"In yesterday's Boston Globe, the film studio's house theologian, Donna Freitas, said Pullman's books ‘are deeply Christian in their theology.' Then how does she explain why the English atheist organization, the National Secular Society, loves Pullman's books? And how does she explain Pullman's statement that he agrees with his character Mary Malone who, in The Amber Spyglass (the third volume of his trilogy), says, ‘The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake'?

"In the current Newsweek, Pullman lashes out at me saying, ‘To regard it [his storytelling] as this Donohue man has said-that I'm a militant atheist, and my intention is to convert people-how the hell does he know that?' That's easy-I just quote him: ‘I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.'

"In his books, Pullman refers to ‘Dust' as an invisible substance with mysterious qualities. To Dr. Spin, Freitas, ‘Dust is the Holy Spirit.' Really? Then why did the screenwriter, Chris Weitz, tell Hanna Rosin of the Atlantic Monthly that the producers of the movie told him to take the following line out of the film: ‘Dust is sin'?

"Weitz recently said it is ‘wrongheaded' to say Pullman wants to ‘kill God.' Yet Pullman has admitted that ‘My books are about killing God.'

"Both Weitz and Pullman confess that their primary goal is to see that ‘The Golden Compass' succeeds so that there will be a film version of books two and three. Weitz has said that the producer, New Line Cinema, has been concerned about the movie's ‘perceived antireligiosity making it an unviable project financially.' Thus, the need to water down the anti-Catholicism. Pullman says he needs to be careful talking about his motives lest he ‘talk the other two films out of existence.' To which I say, ‘Keep talking and insert foot.'"

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    God Bless Bill Donahue. Keep Up the Good Fight! We must defend the Catholic faith at all costs. The Catholic League is awesome. Go Bill!

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    Thank you for this article. I think this is one of the best ways to educate everyone on what these stories are all about. And a part of that is to send the links of articles like this to all your friends to keep them in circulation outside of this website. We get so much email that isnt worth reading, lets make a change and let all our friends know what is going on with this film and the books are based on.

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    BTW — this appears on http://www.imdb.com "Director Chris Weitz has himself adapted Philip Pullman’s work, citing the film and its sequels to be influenced by Barry Lyndon (1975) and Star Wars (1977). He also mentioned that the film would make no direct mention of religion or God, two of the key themes of the books – a decision attacked by fans of the trilogy. According to Weitz, New Line Cinema feared that "perceived anti-religiosity" would make the film financially unviable in the USA. However, Weitz reassured fans by saying that religion would appear in euphemistic terms."  Really ? how is that possible ?

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    Bill, you are a great American!

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    "In the current Newsweek, Pullman lashes out at me saying, ‘To regard it [his storytelling] as this Donohue man has said-that I'm a militant atheist, and my intention is to convert people-how the hell does he know that?'

    Perhaps Bill, the Idiot has just unmasked himself, he's said all along he wants to kill God …. this is not really an atheistic endeavor.  I perceive he has his higher power – to whom he MUST bow and scrape.

    Keep up the good work Bill … you are also a great Catholic!

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    God loves you .

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    To God’s glory, Bill, keep the heat from out of the light on . . .

    If only the USCCB were so Johnny- (Bill-?) -on-the-spot – and, precisely about such as this anti-Catholic, anti-Christian and low-moral abomination of ‘entertainment’ fare for youth.

    Yea, Reilly – Satan doth pay out to his fools. Oh, that they turn in sterling humility to Christ before finding they ‘can’t take it with them’ to hell, either.

    Remember, I love you, too .

    In the Suffering of Christ, and in His hope of His Resurrection,

    Pristinus Sapienter

    (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or … yahoo.com)

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