I apologize in advance for this, but this is a hot topic for me. You can thank Maria for getting me riled up.

There is an email being distributed about The Golden Compass and its anti-religious propaganda. (don’t even get me started on the forwarding of emails. That is NOT what this rant is about, but that is a subject I could go on about for days…) This email warns Christians away from this movie because it will basically brainwash the kids. It’s BAAAAD. It’s against God.

FW: Heads up: The Golden Compass

There will be a new Children’s movie coming out December 7th called “The Golden Compass.” It is written by Phillip Pullman, a proud athiest who belongs to secular humanist societies. He hates C.S. Lewis’s Chronical’s of Narnia and has written a trilogy to show the other side. The movie has been dumbed down to fool kids and thie parents in the hope that they will buy his trilogy where in the end the children kill God and everyone can do as they please. Nicole Kidman stars in the movie so it will most likely be advertised a lot.

First of all, if you’re gonna send out a mass email warning people away, please at least spell check it….

Now, onto the real rant of the day.

The first thing I’m going to say here is, PEOPLE IT’S FICTION. You do get that, right? Just like Narnia was fiction?

Okay, so Phillip Pullman is an atheist. Good for him, that’s his right. If I’m a Christian and I’m writing vampire books, what does that mean? Nothing. My personal beliefs have zero to do with my fictional writing.

Here’s the thing that gets my goat. These mass emails are being sent around in a panic warning people away from taking their kids to the movie or letting them read the books. Well, whatever happened to having faith in what you teach your kids? Are you that threatened by the possibility that your children might be introduced to a different idea? Do you really have so little faith in the way you’ve taught your child and in your own belief system that they can be that easily swayed by a movie? Seriously?

This is just like the Harry Potter thing. Get over it. Have some faith in what you teach your kids. Give them credit for having a mind of their own and the ability to know what is right for them and what isn’t. If you are that insecure about your own religious choice and how you’ve taught your children, maybe you should do a little spiritual reexamination.

Honestly. It’s a movie. It’s fiction. Quit believing and forwarding the propaganda emails. Let your kids decide for themselves. Talk to them. Don’t “ban” them from something you haven’t even read or seen. And please, for the love of your God, have some faith in your own teachings.

I’ve decided that each time I get one of those emails, I’m replying to all with this message. And I think I’ll put at the bottom, if you are one of th 93% of the people who will delete this message, just remember, you emailed me first. The other 7% who will pass this on will find great success in life because they use the brain God gave them.