Movie Warning

A few weeks ago, I saw a trailer for the movie The Golden Compass, based on a children's book with the same name. It looked interesting and I thought it was odd that I had never heard of the book.

Someone sent me the link to the Snopes article about the movie, and I was very disturbed at what I saw. Snopes is the website devoted to confirming or debunking urban legends or chain emails and, unfortunately, this internet rumor is all too true. The book is part of a series written by a British atheist with the affirmed intention of convincing children that the church is a cruel institution that must be destroyed. In fact, in the 3rd book, the children kill god.

Not exactly fuzzy bedtime reading.

To read the information, you can visit the Snopes site at http://snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp