Hypocrisy, paranoia, and a stupid controversy that will only help sell the film. Almost anytime Bill Donohue is involved, it's best to just turn off the television and think for oneself.
Amusingly the Catholic School Board here in Ontario just recently pulled the book stating that it's anti-religious and the author is one of those darn atheists that keep popping up and obviously we have to censor those people.
Whatever, I'm sure the film makers love all the free publicity, it didn't do The DaVinci Code any harm.
I suppose. There are, in fact, times when television provides useful information. However, those occasions that Bill Donohue is on the screen generally don't qualify. My two favorite Donohue moments are when he threw a hissy fit on one of the 24/7 newsblabbers about Smith's Dogma, and then when he embarrassed himself on MSNBC after some philosophy major made a crack about Catholics at a football game ("The good news is that tuition will be going down like an altar boy"). What can we conclude from ol' Bill's tantrums? First, that Catholic doctrine should be exempt from critical thought, and, secondly, Catholics ought to be exempt from humor. I always wonder why the strong and righteous, with God on their side, need to be treated as if they are the frail.
Yep, there's no such thing as bad publicity. I never even heard of the movie, so I had no intentions to see it, but now after all this, I just might. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ROFLMAO!!! - N
Trying to kill god? I have absolutely no problem with such a thing and, from what I can tell, deicide is not actually against any American law. If indeed there is a god, he would probably endorse this movie because, as a species, we are too stupid to handle the concept of religion.
I bet no one is going to even remember this movie a year from now, so I don't think the controversy will be consequential.
What was The Chronicles of Narnia? Hitchens views the His Dark Materials series as a direct rebuttal of C. S. Lewis's series. Although Pullman has criticized C. S. Lewis's series The Chronicles of Narnia as religious propaganda, the two series have several things in common. Both feature children facing adult moral choices, talking animals, religious allegories, parallel worlds, and concern the ultimate fate of those worlds. The first published Narnia book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, begins with a young girl hiding in a wardrobe, as does the first His Dark Materials book, Northern Lights (published as The Golden Compass in North America). [wikipedia]
Pfft. Lyra hides in a wardrobe to spy on a meeting, whatever kid is in CoN hides in a wardrobe for a game. As for "dealing with adult moral situations, fate-of-the-world shit, th talking animals and other worlds," what children's fantasy books don't have something like that? Basically, C.S Lewis sucked the big one and Pullman is a really good writer.
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Even as a biased atheist I have to say Lewis >>> Pullman. And I think Pullman is highly ridiculous to call CoN propaganda. However their books really were for different ages. CoN was for very little children and the golden compass was for little children. If you evaluate a kids story like an adult one then I can see why you were not a fan of Lewis's writing. Speaking from experience though, CoN is great as a kid. As an adult, I thought Pullman's stories sucked.
Chronicles of Narnia... not... propaganda? Have my ears gone INSANE? What was the Chronicles of Narnia but an allegory for Christianity with the difficult parts removed and placed with fuzzier more cheerful parts?
Yay, you dropped in! Why? Lewis can't write, his "imagination" consists of stealing myths from various European cultures, his characters are stupid and his books are vapid and misogynistic. "Oh gee, girls are too silly and pretty to do anything useful! Why don't you go make us something to eat?" Yeah blow me Mr. Tolkien-wannabe.
intresting you would refer to lewis as a tolkien wannabe considering tolkien knew cs lewis and thought him a decent author