The BROKEN Compass

Fellas, this comes from our fellow MMJer, Kris. He is bringing our attention to an upcoming movie called The Golden Compass.

Much as how the Catholic Church was attacked in the movie, The DaVinci Code, this movie introduces a new target to attack -- our children. As you'll read in the excerpt below and in the full document here, this movie aims to water down the true purpose of the book it's based on to entice children to read the other books in the series.

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I thought you guys would find the material below interesting.

This movie is nothing new to the Greatness of the Kingdom of God. How many years has the Church stood in the face of heretical statements or issues?

Mathew 16:17-18. Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

I sincerely pray for those whom do not know the Truth and are fulfilled only by this movie. There are a lot of people who only find happiness and truth through the characterizations in TV, movies, or books. I think that this is a blessing in disguise – what an awesome opportunity to witness to the Truth. An opportunity that otherwise our culture tends to shy away from or avoid.

1 Peter 3:13-17. Now who is going to harm you if you are enthusiastic for what is good? But even if you should suffer because of righteousness, blessed are you. Do not be afraid or terrified with fear of them, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that be the will of God, than for doing evil.

God will use this as He does all things to bring greater glory to His Kingdom.

Faithful in Prayer - Praise God!

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This is a web site for the movie “The Golden Compass" film to be release 12/2007. Also this is an FYI that this is a terrible, anti-Catholic movie. It is aimed at children and labeled as a family movie. This movie is based on a series of books by an atheist British author (Phillip Pullman) whose goal in writing the books is to be the "Anti-Narnia" series and to lead children into atheism. The main villains in the series of books are the Magisterium, Cardinals, and the Pope. It includes a heroine that is a young girl who sets out to kill God. The truly sick thing about the movie is that they have made it APPEAR as if it is an innocent film, with exciting effects and a fairytale story. They have removed from the movie the appalling anti-Catholic/Christian themes from the book. The goal of the movie is to hook unsuspecting families into viewing the film so that children will then want to read the books (and probably buy merchandise). Nicole Kidman stars in it, and Scholastic Books is behind it. I heard about this from Bill Donahue of the Catholic League who was on "The World Over" on EWTN. The goal is to let as many people as possible know about this horrible film and to have it bomb at the box office. The makers of the movie are hoping it will be as big as Harry Potter or the DaVinci Code. Let's pray that it won't! Please tell as many people as possible to avoid this terrible film.

[Phillip Pullman]However, my most well-known work is the trilogy His Dark Materials, beginning with Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the USA) in 1995, continuing with The Subtle Knife in 1997, and concluding with The Amber Spyglass in 2000. These books have been honoured by several prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Award, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award - the first time in the history of that prize that it was given to a children's book.

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