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In the holiday film, "The golden compass", The Magisterium " (aka the church), is portrayed as the sinister group in this story. Before the films release, the catholic church Denounced the movie and called it "godless", as if there was something wrong with that. What 'I don't understand is why the church refuses to be portrayed as a villain, after all it is just a movie. Is it the fact that at one point the church was the most diabolicle force in all of Europe? Or the fact that it has mad countless mistakes and doesn't wand old memories to be dredged up?
please help me to understand why they denounced the film? and why they felt it actually meant something?
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Perhaps because there are people out there who confuse the church of yesteryears with the church of today. The Catholic church has spent the modern era trying to make its image into that of a positive influence instead of a bad one, but unfortunately most people seem to think otherwise and give the church the image that they believe is the image it should have even though that image is not necessarily true.
So no, neither of the above.
And also, why do you think they denounce it? Isn't it obvious that it has to protect itself from outside threats? Why does Islam denounce detractors of its religion?
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it is a children's movie, so by denouncing it they are trying to reduce the amount of people going to see it, as they are highly sugestible, espicially children.
its a kind of brainwashing, if you are told that religion is bad enough times you will come to believe it.
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Denounced the movie and called it "godless", as if there was something wrong with that
it is if your catholic, anyway i think it was the catholic league that denounced it, and they are mad, just watch south park for proof
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The Catholic church has spent the modern era trying to make its image into that of a positive influence instead of a bad one, but unfortunately most people seem to think otherwise and give the church the image that they believe is the image it should have even though that image is not necessarily true
yeah catholicism has a horrible image, most people associate priests with child molesters.
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In the holiday film, "The golden compass", The Magisterium " (aka the church), is portrayed as the sinister group in this story
thats just the movie, which is nowhere near as anti-religion as the book, which they watered down to try not to affend catholics.
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I have seen the Golden Compass movie, and there are no religious references anywhere in the movie at all. I live in the Bible Belt of the U.S. and there was nearly nobody in the theater, such a shame that there are so many closed minded individuals in this society.
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Censorship is the problem because trying to hide something you might end up seeing anyways is inevitable. It's like the people that say kids should never learn about sex until they're 18.
And what's wrong with the church trying to get people to think they're not evil by censoring a movie? The majority of people in the world are Christian, and telling them they're religion sucks isn't really going to make them hate their religion more. They'll either hate the movie because they're too close-minded to see that maybe there was a different point to that movie, or they'll not care because they know it was just a movie and nothing more than that.
What actually disturbs me more is how Christians can actually say that the Passion of the Christ was a good movie when it was really just a violent, disturbing and bloody movie.
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Well, it probably has to do with how the Passion of the Christ is so far the most realistic movie ever to portray the death of Christ. Or so we Catholics think. I guess it's because Catholics think it's dramatic, to put it simply.
And besides, wasn't that how people were treated back then anyway? Why hide closer-to-the-truth details?
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Then why hide the fact that Christianity might also have been considered evil to some as well?
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