Living Open Source» golden compass http://livingos.com Tim's blog on anything from this week's lectionary, to open source software like WordPress Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:49:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Following the Golden Compass http://livingos.com/2007/12/04/following-the-golden-compass/ http://livingos.com/2007/12/04/following-the-golden-compass/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:16:24 +0000 Tim http://www.livingos.com/2007/12/04/following-the-golden-compass/ compassAnother film for Christians to start shouting about? I haven’t had chance to see the film yet, but I am now grown up enough to ignore the protests. Kim has a helpful post on the growing Christian reaction to the film, on the Faith and Theology blog. His basic stance being that the kind of God that Pullman sets out to destroy in his books and film actually does the church a service!

I must admit to being irritated by the way the film seems to be using some of the Narnia imagery to tell its story. Shame they couldn’t be more creative. I think though we would be better engaging with the film, rather than just boycotting it. Especially if you know God to be other than the wrinkled mortal old man presented in the film.

I suppose there will now be the inevitable endless stream of expensive anti-Compass weaponary (books, study guides, DVDs by clever people etc), like we saw with Da Vinci. Why not just go and see the film with a friend and talk about it afterwards over a coffee. What kind of God do you know?

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