GOLDEN COMPASS-Ann Lankford.indd

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Isn’t His Dark Materials just fiction? It is fiction but it presents good as evil and evil as good. It portrays the evil of dark, demonic forces that battle …

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New Movie Release - The Golden Compass
The Office of Catechesis and Evangelization-Diocese of La Crosse
1 1 John 4:1-4 “.every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God.”
2 Tony Watkins, Dark Matter, pp. 21, 152.
3 Philip Pullman, www.books.guardian.co.uk
4 Alona Wartofsky, “The Last Word; Philip Pullman’s Trilogy for Young. Adults Ends
With God’s Death, and Remarkably Few Critics,” Washington Post, Feb. 19, 2001.
5 The Golden Compass: Agenda Unmasked, Catholic League. p. 7.
6 Matthew 6:13, Philippians 4: 8
7 See Revelation 12:7-9; John 8:44; I John 2:18-25; Catechism of the Catholic
Church, #391.
8 Wisdom 4: 12 ” . the fascination of wickedness obscures what is good.”
So, what is the big deal about this movie? Why should
parents be concerned?
The movie The Golden Compass is the fi rst book of the
trilogy, His Dark Materials. Parents need to be concerned
because it attacks the foundation of the Catholic Faith.1
Author, Philip Pullman says,
?”My books are about killing God.”2
?”I am all for the death of God.”3
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