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Is 'Golden Compass' 'selling atheism to kids'?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I don't have the time to dive back into this thread right now (which seems to have exploded while I wasn't looking), but I want to address something Bugs said: [quote] [b]Bugimus said:[/b] Suho, my concern would be that children would be diverted from a saving faith in God. [/quote] When I made the statement that this quote refers to, I was replying to Gideon's concern that films which showed rebellion against authority would somehow have a negative effect on children--despite the fact that this theme has been with us for thousands of years. I also think that, like you said, children are always going to have some form of parental guidance, one way or another, when they go to see films like this. I think maybe what Gideon was trying to say is that children who don't have [i]Christian[/i] guidance might be (to use your words) diverted from a saving faith in God--but if they don't have Christian guidance they're not going to have that faith anyway. But I'm talking in circles here. So much to say, so little actually said. I will say one more thing, though: any claims about what happens to us when we die are ultimately claims of faith. You may have evidence to back those claims, but the truth is that we can't know for certain what will happen when we shuffle off this mortal coil. So, poi, while I admire your conviction, I don't think you can be one hundred percent certain that there is no afterlife. Just like I can't be one hundred percent certain that there is. I realize that you have a great disdain for "faith" and hate to see the word applied to your own worldview, but what else would you call something of which you can never have complete proof? Maybe a "belief," if "faith" grates too much on the ear? [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_text_factory_02.gif[/img] (Confidential to WS: in "real life" I'm actually a hideous beast of a person. ;)) ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2031]Suho1004[/url] on 01-09-2008 10:26)[/small] Loading...
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