God cut from Dark Materials Film [View All]

[central scrutinizer]

Another example of religious-based censorship. I don't know how many of you have read Pullman's fantasy/scifi trilogy, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, but it has a very different take on religion and God - God is portrayed as sort of a dictator in his dotage who is fighting to retain control. The books are usually classified as "juvenile fiction". But now they are making a movie of it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4077987.stm

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The director and screenwriter of the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is to remove references to God and the church in the movie.

Chris Weitz, director of About a Boy, said the changes were being made after film studio New Line expressed concern.

The books tell of a battle against the church and a fight to overthrow God.

"They have expressed worry about the possibility of perceived anti-religiosity," Weitz told a His Dark Materials fans' website.

Pullman's trilogy has been attacked by some Christian teachers and by the Catholic press as blasphemy.

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"You have to recognise that it is a challenge in the climate of Bush's America,"

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