First the insipid Harry Potter books had knickers in twists because of the ’satanism’ and ‘black magic’ contained therein, now as Jim has already noted, The Golden Compass, the film of the first book of Phillip Pullman’s excellent His Dark Materials series is annoying god-botherers everywhere. The question is, is the film atheist enough?

Some are calling for a boycott of the film when it opens in the United States on Dec. 5 because Philip Pullman, author of the book the movie is based on, says he is an atheist.

Oh, the rotter.

“Religion is at its best when it is furthest away from power,” [said] Pullman … “As soon as it gets its hands on power, it’s no good.”

Fair comment.

“It’s stealth campaign, a dishonest way to produce anything,” Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, [an organisation which advocates for the world’s largest child sex network] … “They want to make sure there’s a second and third movie based on the books in the trilogy. This teaches atheism to kids. Phillip Pullman is very open about this. The movie is basically innocuous, but parents may want to say to their kids, ‘You know what? A great Christmas present would be to buy his ‘Dark Trilogy,’ the name of the three books’ [it’s not, but four syllables would be pushing it, and ‘materials’ sounds like ‘materialism’ and that’s like kah-munism]. Now you’ve introduced your kids to atheism. I don’t think most parents want to do that.”

Remember–the celestial dictator loves you so much, he’s sending you to hell. Have a nice day.