oh give me a break.

First, the hypocritical cry of "this is wrong" flies in the face of all the support religious supporting stories such as "Left Behind", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", and the ever loving "Passion of the Christ" so spare me the rhetoric. ALL of these stories are written to support religion and demonize opposition. The story they tell is just as fictional and entirely biased to an ideal as Compass is.

Secondly, the story is about destroying a false god. The author finds a parallel between his story and religion that exists today. If anything, it shows the fanaticism of those in power and how they will manipulate, lie to, and take advant...

oh give me a break.

First, the hypocritical cry of "this is wrong" flies in the face of all the support religious supporting stories such as "Left Behind", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", and the ever loving "Passion of the Christ" so spare me the rhetoric. ALL of these stories are written to support religion and demonize opposition. The story they tell is just as fictional and entirely biased to an ideal as Compass is.

Secondly, the story is about destroying a false god. The author finds a parallel between his story and religion that exists today. If anything, it shows the fanaticism of those in power and how they will manipulate, lie to, and take advantage of anyone to keep themselves in power.

Third - Its a fictional story for crying out loud! It doesn't make a call to do anything. As many fictional stories do, it takes a parallel in reality and builds a story around that.

And finaly, if god is so real and mighty, why do the followers quake and quiver anytime someone presents an opposing viewpoint or shows a truth contrary to the dogma?

Now, go back and read title of this clip and smell the BS. It asks the question "created to stray children from christianity"? But the answer of "TRUE" is taken out of context (oh the irony!) for the question of what theme of the book is based on.

The REAL irony is that people condemning this book enact the very "crime" they deplore with their own beliefs. I wonder how many children are lied to daily in order to indoctrinate them into the belief of the parents?

First I'd like to apolgize for not taking the time to explain my thoughts. I only had a minute to clip.

As for the title of the clip, it is simply asking a question. The content of the clip is a small piece of supporting evidence and I do refer to it as evidence in my remarks. So please, when trying to discredit me, make sure you have your facts straight before saying I took something out of context when that is simply not the case.

The title is based on the fact that the author is on a mission to destroy god in the minds of children. ( i have not found any evidence to say otherwise ) Please tell me if there is evidence to the contrary because I am not one of those simple minded jerks...

First I'd like to apolgize for not taking the time to explain my thoughts. I only had a minute to clip.

As for the title of the clip, it is simply asking a question. The content of the clip is a small piece of supporting evidence and I do refer to it as evidence in my remarks. So please, when trying to discredit me, make sure you have your facts straight before saying I took something out of context when that is simply not the case.

The title is based on the fact that the author is on a mission to destroy god in the minds of children. ( i have not found any evidence to say otherwise ) Please tell me if there is evidence to the contrary because I am not one of those simple minded jerks that refuses to believe anything but what they want to believe.

As many people here know, I have never been on either side of the religion debate. I simply find it very wrong to have a hidden agenda when creating the movie. It makes me feel the same way I would if someone was creating a movie to get children to use drugs but covering it up with some fantasy world movie that seems completely innocent. How can you argue that as not being a bad thing?

The turmoil behind this book/trilogy is a bit disconcerting. I've been getting all kinds of "warnings" about this story from friends, family, and strangers (both verbal and email). The frenzy and fanaticism behind its opposition is really frightening. When my wife's father passed away last Christmas we didn't hear from a quarter of the people that suddenly feel the need to warn us now about this movie. For me it puts into perspective the pettiness of people's need for belief and need to validate it.

But just so I wasn't speaking from ignorance I signed the entire series out of the library a couple days ago and am now halfway through the final book. I don't think its a bad read but I've def...

The turmoil behind this book/trilogy is a bit disconcerting. I've been getting all kinds of "warnings" about this story from friends, family, and strangers (both verbal and email). The frenzy and fanaticism behind its opposition is really frightening. When my wife's father passed away last Christmas we didn't hear from a quarter of the people that suddenly feel the need to warn us now about this movie. For me it puts into perspective the pettiness of people's need for belief and need to validate it.

But just so I wasn't speaking from ignorance I signed the entire series out of the library a couple days ago and am now halfway through the final book. I don't think its a bad read but I've definitely read better. David Eddings's "Belgariod" and "Malorean" are far superior, and "The Lord of the Rings" is much more engrossing. But still, not a bad story. Enough to want to finish it.

As far as this series being some kind of atheist Manifesto on destroying Christianity? I have to laugh. I don't think Christ is even mentioned in the book. More along the old Testament Adam/Eve sort of stuff. As laceym points out.

All I can say is that those crazy Christians sure go out of their way to create bogeymen to rail against. I mean really, the entire foundation of hatred against this book is built upon ignorance. Its an argument based on an appeal to authority (religious belief) using ad hominem against the author (Beware the ATHEIST!).

Frankly, the people that "warn" everyone about the evilness of this movie are nothing but Ass Clowns.

djkraz, honestly, if you haven't found any information that contradicts the ridiculous claim that the movie is designed to rot children's brains against religion then try picking up the series and reading it yourself. Can't be any simpler than that. You might even enjoy it.