Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The Catholic League call for a boycott of the His Dark Materials movies. That's nice, a good boycott always helps drum up extra publicity for a movie. The C.L. are mostly honest, claiming the film is an attack on Catholicism rather than Christianity, though they use author Philip Pullman's atheism as a reason for the boycott to be observed by more than just Catholics. Having read the books I must say Pullman's premise ends up being almost Gnostic, the real God is held prisoner by the first angel he created, Jehovah, who has usurped His power for his own. However, in the books, although God dies the Church is left untouched, so the C.L. are calling for a boycott because someone said something mean about a religious structure which the C.L. are choosing to claim is them.
Labels: atheism, atheists, Christianity, Philip Pullman
