This is one of the most poignant comments regarding the religion of global warming I have seen recently. It is a response to Bret Stephen’s “Global Warming as Mass Neurosis” from the July 1, 2008 edition of The Wall Street Journal:

Here are the global warming movement’s cultic parallels, many of whose characteristics can be found in Walter Martin and Ravi Zacharias’s famous 2003 book, “The Kingdom of the Cults”:

(1) Leadership by a New Age prophet — in this case, former Vice President Al Gore.

(2) Assertion of an apocalyptic threat to all mankind.

(3) An absolutist definition of both the threat and the proposed solution(s).

(4) Promise of a salvation from this pending apocalypse.

(5) Devotion to an inspired text which embodies all the answers — in this case Mr. Gore’s pseudo-scientific book “Earth in the Balance” and his new “An Inconvenient Truth” documentary.

(6) A specific list of “truths” which must be embraced and proselytized by all cult members.

(7) An absolute intolerance of any deviation from any of these truths by any cult member.

(8) A strident intolerance of any outside criticism of the cult’s definition of the problem or of its proposed solutions.

(9) A “heaven-on-earth” vision of the results of the mission’s success or a “hell-on-earth” result if the cultic mission should fail.

(10) An inordinate fear (and an outright rejection of the possibility) of being proven wrong in either the apocalyptic vision or the proposed salvation.

Finally, since this cultic juggernaut has persuaded (brainwashed?) a majority of Americans into at least a temporary mindset of support for its pseudo-religious scam, Mr. Stephens’s label of “mass neurosis” seems frighteningly accurate.

Jim Guirard (Alexandria, Va.)

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Al Gore and the earth worshipers are going to get it handed to them soon. They are a tiny minority and Americans are tired of high gas prices. The $4.00 a gallon mark seems to be the limit. Americans want to drill and they want it done now. If you are an environmentalists and/or a convert to the religion of global warming, you better start ordering your Prozac, because your whole identity is about to go down the drain. The times are a changin’. Besides, drilling in ANWAR will combat global warming.

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You may know who Keith Haring was, but did you know he was a Jesus Freak at one point during his short life? Yes, one of the most recognizable gay icons and Christ bashers the world over was a “Jesus person.”

When I turned thirteen or fourteen, I remember, for whatever reason, wanting to be part of something. Well, the first thing that became available to me was the Jesus movement… People fell into the Jesus Saves movement because it was something to believe in. It was just like it is in the Bible, except you took everything more literally. Being born again meant that you didn’t just commit your life to it, but would convince others to believe in it. Not only was it a way of dealing with your own life, but it was your duty to convince the rest of the world about it. It was a self-declared mission.

So I read about all these things in the Bible and I read Revelation—about the end of the world. And I read a book called The Late Great Planet Earth, and I digested all this information and wanted to believe. All my art of this period was involved with these Jesus things… I was considered a freak—a Jesus Freak. I tried to convince others to be born again, and it just annoyed people—they got tired of my talking about it. Finally, I myself became bored with it. I had done it for about a year, and it seemed to make less and less sense to me, and it became less pressing. In between all that, I discovered smoking pot—that, plus listening to rock music. And there was peer pressure, so the Jesus thing became really boring, and I don’t know that I ever, really believed in all those things. It wasn’t as exciting as it appeared to be at first. Still, all that stuff stuck in my head and even now there are lots of religious images in my work, although they’re used in a more cynical way—to show how manipulative those beliefs and images can be. So, anyway, after the Jesus thing I got into drugs.

Keith Haring, Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography (15-16)

Perhaps America’s brand of secularism poses a particular problem. It allows for professing belief in God and respects the public role of religion and the churches, but at the same time can subtly reduce religious belief to a lowest common denominator. The result is a growing separation of faith from life.

The Pope speaking to American bishops during his recent visit, “Pope Praises Americans’ Faith and Warns of Perils of Secularism,” The New York Times (04.17.08)

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Oprah is one of the most dangerous personalities in the world right now. She is loved by many, and her advice is taken to heart by individuals seeking happiness, peace, and guidance. She is also deluded. Check out this quote from a discussion she has been having on spirituality, religion, and God with Eckhart Tolle.

Well, I am a Christian who believes there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity. So, I’m a free-thinking Christian who believes in my way, but I don’t believe that it is the only way with six billion people here on the planet.

Oprah’s perspective is liberal Christianity. In fact, it is not Christianity at all. It is new age spirituality, not belief, which is demonic. Sadly, it is a perspective an increasing number of “Christians” hold. It is the perspective of Barack Obama, a man interviewing for the highest position in the world and a man Oprah vehemently supports.

Can Oprah be anymore deceived? Of course. Here is some more delusion:

God is a feeling experience, not a believing experience.

A “feeling experience” is narcissistic. It is conceited. It is about serving yourself instead of serving your Creator. This kind of thinking is why practicing homosexuals can call themselves Christians. If there is no real belief, there is no real punishment. There is no need to turn from sin if God is just a spiritual feeling with no authority.

Oprah’s ideology is more dangerous than atheism. It is packaged as Christian when, in fact, it is worldly. Oprah denies Christ is the only path to God, which is not Christian. It is sad to think about all the individuals (1,860,000 for her first class with Eckhart) she has led astray because of her popularity, and she is using this popularity to feed her own ego. She is a narcissist as evidenced by her talk show, her magazine named after herself, her store, her own network named after herself, and now a blasphemous web class on religion, spirituality, and God.

If Oprah lost everything she had—her money, her fame, her popularity, her connections—and was forced to live on the street begging for everything, she would kill herself. Her inner strength and happiness both come from her external circumstances, not God. Destroy her external strength and you destroy her inner strength. You rip apart her false peace. Her spirituality will vanish.

It is easy to lose yourself in a psychology laden, man-made spirituality when you are not lacking anything materially. It is easy to feel God when you have all you want—when you do not feel like you need anything. Spirituality will give you nothing. Only God, through Jesus Christ, can give you peace. Oprah, like many, even forgets that God owns everything. He determines what we have. Can spirituality give you a job? Can it put food on your table and a roof over your head? Not at all. Oprah’s Christianity is self-serving and demonic. Follow her at your own eternal risk.

I could write an entire blog on Oprah, so I will stop here. I have to give credit to tazdog (link in sidebar) for pointing out Oprah’s webcast videos with Eckhart.

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It is nearly impossible to know how many people worldwide believe God does not exist, but the estimates are around 1 billion. Most disbelief has to do with a lack of empirical evidence, but such evidence exists. There is a passage in the Book of Acts that will blow your mind (unless you are an atheist). I find it fascinating because it smacks down any argument claiming God is a myth and the Bible is just a bunch of fairy tales.

In the 5th chapter, Peter and the apostles were brought before the Sanhedrin for teaching the people about Jesus Christ. The Sanhedrin was ready to tear their heads off for speaking blasphemy, but a Phraisee named Gamaliel came forward and said something profoundly prophetic. Check this out:

Then he addressed them: ‘Men of Israel, consider carefully what you intend to do to these men. Some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men rallied to him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing. After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and led a band of people in revolt. He too was killed, and all his followers were scattered. Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.’ (Acts 5:35-39, NIV)

Gamaliel did not buy into the whole Jesus as Messiah thing, even with the evidence that was Jesus’ life. He based his unbelief on his own wisdom and intellect. Even so, his logic for sparring the apostles lethal injections is rock solid. He fully expected Jesus to be just another false prophet and his followers to fade away in irrelevancy, but also recognized that God’s work could not be stopped if Jesus was indeed from God.

This past weekend was the anniversary of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Some two thousands years later the evidence supporting Gamaliel’s logic is overwhelming and cannot be disputed. There are billions of Christians walking the planet, no atheist or skeptic can disprove this. Christianity has not failed, but has increased greatly since Peter and the apostles faced the Sanhedrin, thus proving God’s existence.

If Jesus and his followers were a man-made sect, there is no possibility that Christianity would have been the dominant religion as long as it has been. There are too many competing man-made ideologies in the world for one to dominate the way Christianity has. Christianity would have faded away or, at best, become stagnant as a religion. Christianity is a God thing. Jesus is a God thing. Jesus is God in the flesh. Nonbelief is just a fruitless fight against God.

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I found this video on YouTube and thought it was a great example of mental illness. It is also a great example of the level of anger and bitterness prevalent in many atheists.

WARNING: Language is beyond foul. My fellow Christians will be offended.

The Bible is not a book of man-made myths as the intellectual, secular progessives think. It is not a book of man-made rules for ethical and moral living, stifling the our free will. The Bible is God’s authoritative message on right and wrong, of light and darkness, of what is good and what is evil. It is full of absolutes, because God is absolute. The Bible is a blueprint and guide for humanity. It is “God-breathed.” (2 Timothy 3:16)

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:20-21 (NIV)

One of my favorite authors, Peter Kreeft, once said that modernity’s only sin is the belief in sin. Sin is modernity’s four letter word. We do not want to confront it, and anyone who does, is called a hypocrite suffering from plankeye syndrome. Even worse, Christians cannibalize each other for confronting the sin that exists in our culture.

If we deny sin, which is to deny God, we are free to make our own rules. If we can make our own rules, we are free to change them. Absolutes no longer exist. Sin has no meaning. Some say, “I don’t need God because I am a good and moral person.” You may be “good” and you may be “moral” by the standards of this world, but you are still a sinner and the only way out of your sin is through Jesus Christ.

Satan has funneled many lies into the world, but none are more destructive than the belief that sin is relative and that we don’t need Jesus nor God to escape it. The modern man thinks that one man’s good is just another man’s evil. If this is true, which it is not, there is no evil and thus no real sin.

The modern man does not need to be “saved” because there is nothing to be saved from. He just has to be “good” person, helping out his fellow man by giving some money to charities and AIDS relief in Africa. Maybe he builds some pink 2 x 4 houses in New Orleans without realizing the real reason Hurricane Katrina happened—rampant immorality with a big F-bomb to God (Isaiah 60:12).

Sin is the cause of every problem facing the world. Unless humans address each problem from this perspective, everything we do is merely a band-aid and a temporary fix. We are just cutting the leaves off the weeds instead of pulling them out by the roots. If we do not confront sin the way Jesus did (John 4:1-26, Matthew 27:45-50), and/or worse, we just deny sin is a problem, we end up with 11-year-old boys soliciting girls for sex, 14-year old girls prostituting themselves for Big Macs, and perverts dying while having sex at beastiality bordellos.

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Stephen Prothero, the chair of Boston University’s Department of Religion, recently wrote an interesting piece for USA Today that shines some light on young America’s views of religion. He mentions a class assignment where he has his students “invent their own religions.”

Prothero discovers some interesting facts about his students’ beliefs. He says that “they do not mix faith with dogma,” being careful to “not tell one another what to believe.” They place tolerance and nonjudgmentalism above everything else. Their religions demand very little “intellectually or morally.” One of his students called this “dogma aversion.”

These views are disturbing to me. It suggest that young Americans care little about eternity—they do not even care what God thinks. They care about sex (”Euphorianity”), sleep (”ZZZ”), and food (”Dessertism”). Prothero says, “They want to discover themselves and to give voice to their discoveries. They want to experience joy because of their bodies, not despite them. And they don’t want to be told what to do with those bodies, or with them.”

Prothero says this millennial generation is flocking to a “mix-and-match spirituallity.” This is easy to understand since spirituallity demands nothing. There is no sacrifice, no obedience, no rules. It is a do-as-you-please system.

Prothero also suggests that religious institutions are not doing a good enough job of getting the attention of young people. I agree somewhat. Traditional religons are losing young people, but nondenominational ministries outside of traditional religion are increasing and growing in effectiveness. Stephen Baldwin’s Livin’ It, Rock For Life, Battle Cry, and Christian Surfers among others are blowing apart assumptions that religion is only for adults.

I also believe the attitudes of Prothero’s students are partly about poor parental skills. Parents want to be a friend first and a parent second. As children grow up, they become allergic to authority, because their parents were never authoritative with them. Religions are authoritative and demanding. This, along with the do-as-you-please mentality perpetuated by the media, is why we see religious aversion among young people.

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When you go and vote in the coming general election, just remember that your vote is important, but we are not electing a new president as much as carrying out God’s plan for America. Consider these humbling words:

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. (Romans 13:1)

By now some might be sick and tired of hearing about Heath Ledger’s death. By 21st century standards, this is old news. But his death applies to all of us as an example of what the world offers. It is always a sad thing to see a young person die before his/her time. No parent should have to bury a child. River Phoenix, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison, and James Dean are some of the other young artists passing on before reaching the limits of their talents.

The Christian response to Ledger’s death has seen two extremes. There are the “He is burning in Hell” Christians vs. the “All you need is love” Christians. There has to be a middle ground. Derogatory tones do nothing to caste Christianity in a positive light while John Lennon Christianity dilutes the gospel, removing sin from the equation.

I am a sinner and you are a sinner. The difference is when somone does not believe he/she is a sinner, living life while flipping God the bird. All of these young stars were wraped up in what this world has to offer and not what God has to offer. They sought pleasure and comfort in the material and lived accordingly. The Bible says quite clearly, “Friendship with the world is hatred toward God.” (James 4:4) There are consequences for our actions.

I wish River Phoenix was still around making movies, he was the greatest actor of my generation aside from Johnny Depp. Ledger’s death should be a wake up call for the young and famous. No one is better than another. We are all wretched in our sin. It does not matter how much money you have or how righteous you think you are. All of us will eventually face death.

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I recently wrote about a survey by the Barna Group concerning Americans’ views of the Bible—whether or not it is taken literally or not. This reminded me of an article by Marc Morano of CNSNews.com about Al Gore’s May 2006 “Town Hall on the Climate Crisis” in New York. During this “town hall” gathering, Gore referenced Revelation 11:18 to justify his green agenda. Now, using Scripture to back up actions is not a new practice. Gore’s reference is nothing outrageous, but his interpretation of the verse poses a problem for him.

He is the Christ figure for environmentalist so his words carry weight and are increasingly influencial in shaping public policies worldwide, but his literal interpretation of Scripture exposes himself and his religion as fraudulent. I have never heard Gore invoke God as a reason for radical climate change so why would he us God’s Word as justification for green behavior? It fits his need as many global warming deniers (also labeled “Holocaust Deniers”, “Moon Landing Deniers”, and “The Denial Machine”) are Believers, even if some are falling prey to the false religion. Here is what Revelation 11:18 says:

The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great—and for destroying those who destroy the earth. (NIV)

Here is what Gore said at his “town hall” meeting as reported my Marc Morano:

The Book of Revelation [says] God will destroy those who destroy his creation.

I find it interesting that Gore uses the term “creation” instead of the more widely used “earth.” The New International, Today’s New International, New American Standard, Amplified, King James, and American Standard versions of the Bible all use the term “earth” to describe humanity. Gore is implying, purposefully or not, that the earth is God’s creation—straight up denying Darwinian theory. His terminology also suggests he puts a certain level of faith in the Bible as the literal Word of God. This is where Gore gets into trouble using a literal interpretation of Scripture to justify his position on global warming.

If Gore took a literal view of the entire Bible, which I doubt he does, to back up his green agenda, he would have to shut his religion down because it would be made null and void by God’s Word. Here are some (not all) examples of Scripture (NIV) that, if taken literally, show God is in control of radical climate change, not humans:

Noah and the Flood:

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. Every living thing that moved on the earth perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. (Genesis 7:17-23)

Pharaoh’s eighth rejection of God:

You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go. Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now…Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on men and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.’ When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt; hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both men and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree. (Exodus 9:17-18; 22-25)

God’s judgement of Israel and Judah:

See, the day of the LORD is coming —a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it. The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless. I will make man scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger. (Isaiah 13:9-13)

Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder, the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish. (Isaiah 29:14)

But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. (Jeremiah 10:12-13)

I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
(Joel 2:30-31)

God on humanity’s arrogance:

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. (Proverbs 27:1)

Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come? No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death… (Ecclesiastes 8:7-8)

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.’ As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. (James 4:14-16)

All these verses show that radical climate change and meteorological events are symptoms of God’s plan for the earth and not humanity’s penchant for driving SUVs (Suburban Utilization Vehicles). They also show that no one knows what tomorrow will bring. The fact that not one person walking the planet today can predict with certainty the climatic patterns of 10, 20, 50 years from now suggests that Gore’s religion is bogus. If there is no faith involved in Gore’s interpretation of Revelation 11:18, he is just being derisive toward God in his use of Scripture. Ultimately, this will pose an even greater problem for him and all his followers.

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Much has been said and written about The Golden Compass and the man behind the story, Philip Pullman. Check out the discussion going on concerning my post “Narnia Tears Apart The Golden Compass”. I gathered up some quotes from Pullman that I came across in my attempt to give him some benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, it is clear just how dangerous his mind really is. Surely, some readers will accuse me of being selective. Not all of Pullman’s words are relevant to this topic, so yes, I am being selective.

It is my belief that the Golden Compass is not a harmless fantasy, but an attempt to “benignly” infiltrate the minds of the incognizant, not through viewing the movie, but through further investigation into Pullman’s written work. However, there is one argument that Pullman makes that I have to agree with. The Golden Compass or the book it is based on, The Northern Lights, are not anti-religious or anti-moral.

As always, not everyone will be negatively affected by Pullman’s books and the subsequent movies. Most will enjoy the stories as a entertaining fantasies, but if just one soul is tarnished because of the anti-God and anti-Christianity message in Pullman’s work, he has succeeded. For a man who hates the fiction of C.S. Lewis so much, it is odd that he copies him in such a blatant fashion.

These quotes where taken from Peter Hitchens’ 2002 article “This Is The Most Dangerous Author In Britain.” I am just relaying some of Pullman’s thoughts as reported by Mr. Hitchens.

I hate the Narnia books, and I hate them with deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling-away.

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions… We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time and silence. ‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten.

We’re used to the Kingdom of Heaven; but you can tell from the general thrust of the book that I’m of the devil’s party, like Milton. And I think it’s time we thought about a republic of Heaven instead of the Kingdom of Heaven. The King is dead. That’s to say I believe the King is dead. I’m an atheist. But we need Heaven nonetheless, we need all the things that Heaven meant, we need joy, we need a sense of meaning and purpose in our lives, we need a connection with the universe, we need all the things the Kingdom of Heaven used to promise us but failed to deliver.

The following quote comes from Sarah Lyall’s New York Times piece “The Man Who Dared Make Religion the Villain; In British Author’s Trilogy, Great Adventures Aren’t Pegged to the Great Beyond.”

When you look at what C. S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better.

The following quote comes from Claudia FitzHerbert’s interview of Pullman for the Literary Review

The problem for those who think there’s an anti-religious anti-moral bias in the books comes when they haven’t actually read the books: of course there’s a criticism of organised theocratic tyrannical religion but who can disagree with that?

A review in the Church Times said, ‘When the morality is secure the metaphysics don’t matter.’ The qualities which my books criticise are intolerance, fanaticism, cruelty, and the qualities they celebrate are love, kindness, openness, curiosity. I think the moral majority in America is not a majority at all and that the power of the organised Christian Right is a phantom.

Theocracies don’t have to be religious. Soviet Russia was a theocracy. They had a holy book, which was Marx; they had prophets and doctors of the church (Lenin, Engels, Stalin, and so on); they had a priesthood that had privileges and powers above the ordinary, which was the Communist Party.

Here is a video of Pullman discussing his “agenda” in writing his books with Donna Freitas, author of Killing the Imposter God. The problem is that this agenda is common to all writers and is thus generic. He obviously is doing promotion for The Golden Compass and thus is obligated (required?) to be silent on the anti-God, anti-Christianity rhetoric.

Watching this video gives one the sense he is a harmless intellectual promoting “kindness…love…courage…and courtesy.” All good character traits for humanity regardless of personal beliefs. Then he has to drop the rhetoric bomb, attacking “coldheartedness…tyranny…and closed-mindedness”, all words used by secularists (modernists, evolutionists, progressives, et al.) to describe Christians and Christianity (the Church).

Here are quotes from a 2000 interview by Hugh Spanner for Third Way.

The values depicted in the Narnia stories are certainly not the values I read in the Gospels. Hatred of the flesh? Condemning children for growing up?

The Christian story gives us human beings a very important and prominent part. We are the ones who Jesus came to redeem from the consequences of sin, which our parents – you know. It is a very dramatic story and we are right at the heart of it, and a great deal depends on what we decide. This is an exciting position to be in, but unfortunately it doesn’t gel at all with the more convincing account that is given by Darwinian evolution – and the scientific account is far more persuasive intellectually. Far more persuasive. And, as I have said, there is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

Here is a quote by Bill Donohue, president and CEO of the Catholic League, in an article by Catherine Donaldson-Evans of FoxNews. Mr. Donohue shares my sentiments regarding the real danger the The Golden Compass puts forth.

They’re intentionally watering down the most offensive element. I’m not really concerned about the movie, [which] looks fairly innocuous. The movie is made for the books. … It’s a deceitful, stealth campaign. Pullman is hoping his books will fly off the shelves at Christmastime.

It is obvious that Philip Pullman is a talented writer because The Golden Compass was made. Make no mistake about it though, he desires to eliminate Christianity through the promotion of open-minded free thinking (i.e., intellectualism). Intellectualism looks benign, put it pushes the mind further away from God, eventually eradicating Him from all thought processes. For anyone who has spent any time in a university, you know where all the intellectuals are. They are conditioning new intellectuals.

I have to believe most readers of Pullman’s books, and viewers of The Golden Compass, will take the stories at face value without reading into them any deeper. However, some will read further and will be led astray, while others will be emboldened by them.

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Here is the opening weekend box office returns for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe versus The Golden Compass.

• Narnia ($65,556,312 between 3616 screens)
• The Golden Compass ($26,125,000 between 3528 screens)

Atheism could only muster up 40% of C.S. Lewis’ Christian masterpiece.

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