tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post8137275694928203298..comments2023-09-24T07:53:50.826-05:00Comments on The Atheist Experience™: Catholics so scared of Golden Compass, they're suppressing their own praiseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-47031126455126922582008-02-03T08:16:00.000-06:002008-02-03T08:16:00.000-06:00Methinks the lady doth project too much.Methinks the lady doth project too much.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17933545393470431585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-41177226105831851762008-02-03T02:38:00.000-06:002008-02-03T02:38:00.000-06:00Wagner, What a joke you. You sound so self import...Wagner, <BR/><BR/>What a joke you. You sound so self important. That is, you need to make your distorted and polluted world view fit the lives of others. Surely, a true believer like you must feel some guilt over imposing your will, intentional or not, upon others.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04801752661170791564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-16189827629107357212007-12-30T08:38:00.000-06:002007-12-30T08:38:00.000-06:00Well, Timothy, if you had scanned a few earlier po...Well, Timothy, if you had scanned a few earlier posts other than this one, you'd have stumbled upon my actual review of the movie, wherein I reveal I didn't like it. So there's no surprise you didn't find any reasons given to see the movie in <I>this</I> post. This one wasn't the review.<BR/><BR/>As for the bogosity, here's the short version: the Catholic League has been putting it about that the movie is some virulent anti-Christian tract, which it most emphatically is not. The role of the Magisterium in the movie has been dialed down to that of a generic oppressive government. (The books are more overtly critical of Christianity, especially the last one, but not hatefully so.)<BR/><BR/>Your second paragraph is a complete straw man and bizarre non sequitur rolled into one. Where you get the stupid idea that I "seem to be pro intellectual freedom, except if Catholics use their intellectual freedom to decide that God exists" is beyond me. (And being supportive of people's right to choose to believe whatever rubbish they wish hardly disqualifies one from attacking authoritarian institutions that compel loyalty through exploiting superstition and fear.) In any case you've missed the entire point of the post, which was that a Catholic website that <I>praised</I> the movie was forced to take its positive review down. So who's really against intellectual freedom here? I don't see the Catholic church encouraging intellectual freedom among the Catholic laity if opinions that don't toe the party line get stomped on.<BR/><BR/>I'd love to be the one to film the rest of His Dark Materials, but I don't have $180 million handy at the moment. For the time being, you might try harder to understand what's really being said in a post before lashing out at it.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17933545393470431585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-6695077412974192892007-12-29T17:38:00.000-06:002007-12-29T17:38:00.000-06:00Greetings! Saw your post in Google Blogsearch and ...Greetings! Saw your post in Google Blogsearch and came to read.<BR/><BR/>I was a bit dissappointed in that your post was largely an ad hominum attack on Catholics. You made several powerful statements like " the grounds on which the Catholic League ... is condemning it are wholly bogus", but then fail to list those same grounds and the proof that those grounds are bogus.<BR/><BR/>I thought "... but in embracing free thought and fighting authoritarian rulers and institutions that keep people cowed and submissive" was interesting. You seem to be pro intellectual freedom, except if Catholics use their intellectual freedom to decide that God exists.<BR/><BR/>After reading your post I still have no compelling reason to spend two hours of my life and my hard earned cash watching the movie. If you want to see Pullman's second book made into a movie, you might consider investing your own funds along with other atheists to help make that happen.Timothyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06992217665437521336noreply@blogger.com