A film called The Golden Compass falls within the genre of children’s fantasy.
The movie is based upon the award-winning trilogy of novels, His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pulman. Pulman is a militant atheist who is said to despise C.S. Lewis and the famous Chronicles of Narnia. His motivation in writing his books was specifically to counteract the Christian influence of Lewis’s work on children. In 2003 Pulman gave an interview in which he said that ‘my books are about killing God’.
Christian parents will have to decide how best to respond to this movie in their children’s best interest.
