I resist for the most part getting involved in any kind of controversy like this - so much so that the emails that I have gotten regarding the movie The Golden Compass have been deleted with out reading them.
Starting this morning though, I was really hit with it - myspace is covered in The Golden Compass and I got yet ANOTHER email telling me how evil the movie was - honestly it really just made me want to throw up.
Don't get me wrong, I don't LIKE movies where evil is prevalent and made to some how appear right and good and heroic. It's sooo typical of Christian groups though, to get on this band wagon - just for "certain" things and talk and talk and talk - they put the people that create these things down and treat them like dirt. I don't think that these people for the most part are TRYING to be evil, but even if they are, can you "correct" them in love?? Could you possibly deal with an issue in love instead of looking down on them??
Try this: if you are going to be that hurt and upset over all of that "evil" stuff, hold yourself to that standard in everything!! It's always those that are the loudest in attacking something that usually have something to hide...you look like a fool and those that produce the movies and write the songs and books know just what you are going to say. THEY CALL YOU OUT!!
How about this?
One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had ever loved anyone. Rowling smiled. "Dumbledore is gay, actually," replied Rowling as the audience erupted in surprise.
and then
Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason.
Of course she was totally right and about two hours after that article was out, Carlos sees a post on a Christian artists website about it....
I know I am ranting and that I am making that much sense....I would like to see some REAL people stand up for what is right - all the time. Not just when something huge like this comes along. This movie didn't jump up out of nowhere. (the guy wrote the BOOK in 1996) We have been prepared and courted and groomed for this movie in thousands of different ways for YEARS. It's kinda like trying to say that being "gay" is sooo wrong, and you lying on your taxes is OK. So today or yesterday or last week, if you lied to someone don't say a WORD about that movie. No one wants to hear it. When your life reflects Christ and you can talk to someone in love and explain to them why the movie or the books might be negative then you can say something but till then, hush and please please please, don't embarrass me....don't call yourself a "Christian" and scream and yell and get stupid about this....because there are a million other things that need to be dealt with before you attempt to take a stand about a freaking MOVIE.
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