The Golden Compass

Perhaps I have written about this before, but I am amazed at people's intolerance. I'm not even able to type very well right now, as I am dissapointed and upset. There is a movie coming out on Friday that I am extremely looking forward to titled The Golden Compass. The Golden Compass is part of a trilogy of books called His Dark Materials. The books are a coming of age story, an adventure story, and a fantasy story.
There is currently rounds of emails going around calling for a Christian boycot of the movie because it is anti-Christianity. The author is atheist. The two main characters of the trilogy represent Adam and Eve, and yes, they kill "god" at the end. What the emails don't touch on is why the author is atheist:

Some of the articles and talks I've written are to do with the subject of religion, which I think is a very interesting one. 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 – is part of being human, and I value it. I'd be a damn fool not to.
But organised religion is quite another thing. The trouble is that all too often in human history, churches and priesthoods have set themselves up to rule people's lives in the name of some invisible god (and they're all invisible, because they don't exist) – and done terrible damage. In the name of their god, they have burned, hanged, tortured, maimed, robbed, violated, and enslaved millions of their fellow-creatures, and done so with the happy conviction that they were doing the will of God, and they would go to Heaven for it.
That is the religion I hate, and I'm happy to be known as its enemy.

hmm, hating organzied religion - especially the catholic church. Wait now, isn't that how Martin Luther felt when he rebelled and posted the 95 Thesis? And how many of us look at other religions, especially islam, and have huge issues with that? This is an actual post from a Christian on Godtube in response to a video from Fox News:

I think we need somebody like Pullman more in the Islamic world than in the West. A wave of atheism through the kids in today's Musllim countries would put a stop to this nonsense about killing the infidels and blowing yourself up or crashing planes into buildings to get your 72 virgins in heaven.

umm, so atheism is okay for islamics but not for christians? and please tell me that this person was being sarcastic:

People like this make me mad, how DARE they think they have any right to teach our kids what THEY want them to believe. Kids are very Open to ideas at that age and no one has the right to try to teach them to follow there religious outlook on life (and like it or not, this IS a moive aimed at kids) You don't see Catholics or Christians trying to teach kids to believe that there way is the right, Before there old enough to pick for themselves, like this!

wow. I'm not sure how people get so caught that they don't even think before they post stuff like this.

and as for lyra "killing god" that all happens after they open hell up so that the spirits can be freed, then they free god so that he can join everyone.

anyway, i'm going to see the movie on friday and we'll see if my opinion changes before that.