I agree with this article What Every Parent Should Know About "The Golden Compass". I just saw the movie and, even if I liked the story as it is imaginative and sort of entertaining, I found it disturbing. I think the author has an agenda , and it is to implant seeds of distrust for anything that has to do with authority and Christianity. Using images and names that refer to Christianity or the Catholic Church makes it much more disturbing, and even offensive. [...]
This is not literature that will be read by my younger children, especially when there is so much great literature that will reinforce Christian values. So I would say: Mr. Pullman, great imagination! But no, thank you!
Ina Hecker
