Christianity Today Movies on The Golden Compass

Christianity Today posted an article on the soon-to-be-released movie, The Golden Compass, that has been recently generating a considerable number of fear and rumor e-mails as well as blog posts. (The longer blog post by Jeffrey Overstreet from which the article was condensed can be found HERE.)

Here is an excerpt:

Should Christians be afraid of The Golden Compass? Should anybody?

“I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief,” said Philip Pullman, describing his fantasy trilogy to The Washington Post in 2001.

But mercy, no. Let’s not be afraid. Discerning, yes. But not afraid.

Remember all of that hysteria about the movie version of The Da Vinci Code? Christians got all worked up about it… and it turned out to be the most boring movie of the year. In retrospect, our “concern” probably helped the movie become a financial success in spite of how lame it was...

... Do not get hysterical, mount massive boycotts, or behave in ways that the Magisterium in Pullman’s books would behave. You’ll just make Pullman’s stories more persuasive, and you’ll confirm for the culture around us that Christians only really get excited when they’re condemning something.

My own take was similar to Jeffrey Overstreet's comments. Here is the link to my blog post from a month ago.