On Dec 24, 2007 9:59 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > busy busy time) I won't take my kids to it because my daughter gets > bothered by an 80's Care Bear movie and my son is 3 and wouldn't get > it.
....and the movie is PG-13 so I wouldn't advise taking younger children to see it (there's at least one scene of "fantasy violence" that is somewhat disturbing - and it's stuff like that which got the movie its rating). > So, you nailed him as anti-religion. He is anti-*organized*-religion which is very different from being anti-religion in general. I would hope all people who believe in any god would be against organizations that "have burned, hanged, tortured, maimed, robbed, violated, and enslaved millions of their fellow-creatures, and done so with the happy conviction that they were doing the will of God, and they would go to Heaven for it". The bible says that Jesus told people they did not need the church to practice their faith and the bible describes Jesus as being strongly against the exact same kind of organized religion that Pullman rails against... I have no problem with spirituality or faith per se. I have a problem with organizations that commit atrocities in the name of their god. There was a very interesting program on TV the other night called "In God's Name" where they interviewed several of the world's major religious figures about a number of issues. They featured Dr Frank Page (Baptist Church), the guy in charge of the Lutheran Church, the Dalai Lama, the head of the Sikh Authority, the Amma of the Hindu faith, the Grand Sheikh of the Sunni Muslems, the Grand Ayatollah of the Shia Muslems, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Pope, the Chief Rabbi and the head of the Shintu faith in Japan... and one more I think? I'm sure there were twelve interviewees. It was very interesting to hear their views on religious tolerance (or otherwise), terrorism, faith & doubt, life in the modern world and so on. In particular, the interviewers asked them about their views on fighting for their faith which, as you can imagine, yielded some differences of opinion. They also showed the numbers of people practicing each faith: about a billion Catholics, almost a billion Sunni Muslems and in third place the Hindus I think it was. In terms of resonating with my feelings about organized religion, I'd have to place them in order of preference: the Amma, the Dalai Lama, the Grand Sheikh would be first; the Pope, the Chief Rabbi and Dr Frank Page would be last; the others would be somewhere in the middle (with the Lutheran and the Anglican nearer the top). Dr Frank Page is a scary man who embodies almost everything I think is wrong with organized religion. Back to the Golden Compass - hearing how different the books apparently are makes me want to go and read them! Thanx Jim! -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249053 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
