Well I wish I had a dollar for the number of emails I received warning about the new movie "The Golden Compass" I hope that as Christians we don't fall into the trap of promoting the movie for them. I read this post about it today.
Let's hope that we can engage with intelligence about this movie, not out of fear! Our Good is big enough to cope with any questions and is definitely loving enough to stand in contrast with the god portrayed in this movie.
For the death of this God would actually do the church a gre
at service. He is the god Pullman’s mentor and fellow iconoclast William Blake, whose 250th birthday we celebrated last Wednesday, called Old Nobodaddy, who bears as little relation to the God Jesus called Abba as the straw deity that the New Atheists so tediously torch. This god, who is finally defeated in the third book of the trilogy, is a bearded old fart “of terrifying decrepitude, of a face sunken in wrinkles, of trembling hands and a mumbling mouth and rheumy eyes.” He is the object more of ridicule than indignation (one thinks of the satire on idolatry in Isaiah 44).
Faith and Theology: Christians and The Golden Compass
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