Proper Censorship vs Pure Ridikulusness (sic)
Dec 10, 2007 in God-worshipper
Surely most people (who come from Good Christian families who only watch movies made by good Christian people, read books by good Christian authors, eat food at restaurants owned by good Christian businessmen and work for good Christian employees) have received the mass mailed warnings to warn us of the perils of going to THAT terrible movie written by that terrible man called Phillip Pullman.
Well if you haven't, I have, and although this happens almost all the time in the family I own, I still haven't been able to escape being annoyed by the circumstance.
Or perhaps, it puzzles me to hell why was I encouraged a good education when I am not allowed to make good use of the education. Very much like the banning of The Satanic Verses, or the tirades against that absurd-money-raking bestseller called The Da Vinci Code, or even frightened fundamentalists parents forbidding their poor kids from reading about Harry Potter and his amazing (fictitious spells), here we go again.
Nicole Kidman is going to hell, by the way, for playing a part in what is so obviously a movie that is anti-God.
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I say my friends, there is a difference between being anti-religion, and being anti-God. But of course, somewhere in between the years, Satan has totally succeeded, and now that God has been so successfully intermeshed between that deceiving concept we obediently claim to be our differentiating religions, we're doing the very thing thats driving human beings apart. Let's judge, let's condemn, it's in the name of God, we say.
If you watched the movies and were you to be even so close to realize what allegorical references actually mean, it's true, the books through the movie indeed is telling us about the problems with organized religions (that inevitably is built up through hierarchy-addicted power-hungry tyrants). But come on, half the population in the world aren't really that bothered, and very quickly, the story's just another rehashed-and-retold one… and if I may risk being labeled heretical to actually say this, much like how much of the stories in the bibles could be considered rehashed and retold stories from various cultures around the world.
So the contents, running a checklist here - you've got the protagonist, some helpers, a kind of systemic ruling system that keeps things under control, the people who're desperately trying to keep the systems intact, and those who believe in a world of pure free-will. OK what, a lot of shows have done that before lah. Lord of the Rings — like that also kan? Star Wars - also like that mah. Narnia like that also. All also like that. What's so special?
Eh you dunno, Phillip Pullman's book got something called a God-Killer you know. And some more the characters named after God based on the Hebrew / Christian faiths. So he must be of some Satanic cult thing… you wanna go Heaven or not? Better not read.
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Maybe because I go to a Lutheran church, and that the founder of the Lutheran denomination had to go through a lot of literal shit just to break down systemic religious systems that oppressed intellectual thinking that this kind of mass-emailing annoys me to death. Didn't our God, His Son had to go through the same kind of anti-government warfare in order to prove what it meant to conquer the cross?
It's Advent, and instead of telling people to spread the love, love your neighbour (and enemy) as your won, we're busy spreading e-mails of hate, telling each other to boycott movies, if you're a good Christian. 'Act accordingly, read carefully.'
What would Jesus think if he were actually here?
I watched the movie btw, and the ending was really quite bla. Am I converted to Pullman-ism? Not quite. Impressed? No, it's watered down, and quite fortunately so. Will I watch the rest of the trilogy, why not? When the show comes out. Do I think it's Satanic? Who cares?
It's Advent. Time to spread the love.