On The Golden Compass

Honestly, the Golden Compass will not lead a single true Believer to Atheism. You wanna know why? Either they are too weak in their faith and the knowledge of Yahweh to draw the connections, or they are strong enough in their faith to not be effected by stuff such as it. I am willing to bet that if you take any random 10 Christians off the street who has never heard of the series and had them read it, 8 of them would be unable to draw the parallels, and the other two would see the intended symbolism but still keep their trust in G-d, yet all 10 no doubt would find at least one good lesson to take out of it because regardless of Pullman's intention, there really are good lessons to be found.

Now then, either shut the heck up about the series and deal with it, or actually read it rather than taking the word of some pastor who has never read it and is receiving his information through third-hand sources himself and has no idea what in the world he is talking about besides the fact in the series they "kill G-d!" Who cares what deep symbolism can be taken out of it, who cares that it can teach you valuable lessons about how the unbelieving world views G-d so that you can better reach them! We must all go out and "protect" the world from ideas and concepts and completely govern what they think so that we can throw the world back into the freaking DARK AGES!

AND FURTHERMORE!!!
Just because you dislike what Pullman supports is no reason to reject him completely. Just because you disagree with a stance or viewpoint is NO reason to completely cast it down and trample all over it without even taking the decency to find out where that person is coming from in the hopes of actually maturing and learning something over the course of it!

But NO! You must protect people from their own minds and warn them about the dangers of something when you truly have no idea what the hell you are talking about. It is one thing to actually know what you are talking about and trample it down with valid, consistent arguments, and yet quite another to run about saying "O MAH GOSH!!111! THEY KIL GOD AND R ANTIG-D!11!11 B3W4R3 AND RUN AW4Y!!!111"

Protest against something all you will, but NEVER try to warn them off and insult people and undermine their intelligence and the beauty of the human mind by trying to protect them from thoughts and trying to keep them from being able to make their own informed mind!