Golden Nutters

Some kid in the U.S.A allegedly got this in their school newsletter:

Book and Movie warning!
Most of you are aware that the New Line Cinema release of a movie titled The Golden Compass will hit the theaters with dramatic impact on December 7, 2007. The promos for the movie are enticing and appear to offer an escape to fantasy and adventure. The Philip Pullman film, the first of a trilogy called His Dark Materials, has been compared to Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series. Well, it's not. The Golden Compass is the exact opposite of the Christian-based classics. The film is viciously anti-God while weaving messages of witchcraft, evolution, divination, homosexuality, and immorality. The author himself boasts that, "I am of the Devil's party and know it!". Needless to say, we strongly urge families to avoid this "soon to be popular" movie.

I saw the film last week and have no idea how anyone could think it "anti-God". There is not a single inclusion of anything remotely Christian eg: crucifixes or nutty prophets intent on getting themselves nailed to bits of wood. God himself gets no mention whatsoever (I'm sure he is secretly dissapointed).

If you check the IMDB message boards for the movie, you'll find all the usual American evangelistic bollocks. There are some nice comebacks though. I quite like this one:

and you worship a jewish zombie, who is his own dad that lives in the sky, and will make you live forever among people who fly around with wings, if you talk to yourself and pretend an invisible ... guy with a beard is listening and will forgive you for everything wrong in your life, which he happened to put there in the first place.