This blog was started for Mr. Hughes' English III AP course.
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The Compass to No Where.

The hearts of children are never in the wanting for adult thoughts, always having the feeling to stay the way they are, young and unknowing. They do not over analyze and they do not shovel deeper than the top soil of a story, not having the lust to want to know honestly why, or the real truth. This shines the light on the adults into being the ground breakers. The Golden Compass, though written by an atheist, was a children's book. The more aged believe it to be an attack on Catholicism and Christianity, for the book makes noticeable religious references against God.

People nation wide find the Blockbuster shelve-sitter crazy to be produced because of it's supposed teachings of atheism. "The religious impulse – which includes the sense of awe and mystery we feel when we look at the universe, the urge to find a meaning and a purpose in our lives, our sense of moral kinship with other human beings" says Philip Pullman, the author of The Golden Compass and a proclaimed atheist, on the religion section of his own website [Pullman]. The Golden Compass is a good example off of his quote, being an adventurous tale of a girl off to find unanswered questions, gaining friends along the way, and to find a purpose for everything going on.

Maybe The Golden Compass is thought to complexly for the man is atheist. He is different from a lot of people, and he can be easily taken down because of the large amounts of non-atheists all over the world. Is that why the movie is known as something ridiculous whenever it was a beautifully created film? Pullman wrote a children's book. If he was interested in attacking Christianity, he could have done it without the 'ice bears' and 'daemons', right?

Work Cited

Pullman, Philip. "Religion." Philip Pullman. 2008. 21 May 2008
http://www.philip-pullman.com/about_the_worlds.asp