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The author of ‘The Golden Compass’ doesn’t mince words

by Robert K. Elder [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[13.Dec.07] :. He certainly doesn’t look like a god-killer. But that’s how critics cast him: a deity-smashing heretic, bent on spreading godlessness with children’s tales. No, in person, author...

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Critics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[9.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an...

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Critics say ‘Golden Compass’ is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Dec.07] :. Since its beginning, critics have denounced the film industry as a godless enterprise leading innocent minds astray. Now, say the critics, the industry is pushing a children’s movie with an...

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Director says initial reaction to ‘Compass’ hasn’t been golden

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[6.Dec.07] :. Chris Weitz is a moviemaker on the spot. He’s just directed a multi-million dollar movie fantasy, “The Golden Compass,” which opens around the world Friday. And nobody seems willing...

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‘Compass’ author’s atheism stirs debate on film’s message

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[6.Dec.07] :. Nina Hemmer is a reader. The 11-year-old Shorewood, Wis., girl is plowing through the Bible and hopes “to get to the part about Jesus’ birth by Christmas,” said her mother, Cathy...

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