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...Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, with the first installment, The Golden Compass, due out on December 7. This will be just in time for children who see the movie to beg their parents to stuff their stockings with Pullman's entire trilogy or video game for Christmas morning. Is this really a movie that sensible and loving parents want their children to see this Christmas season? Or, is The Golden Compass, seriously misdirected?

To be sure Pullman's, Golden Compass, will prove to be a seductive and entrancing story for children as it employs hyper fantastical elements that reinforce the allure for power through communion with "daemons" while at the same time offering release from moral constraints given by God. Many children, like some adults, are easily lulled into a desire for power and would love to believe they could jettison moral values and acceptable ranges of behavior because they don't have to answer to God or their parents. In a day and age where drive-by and school shootings are becoming common, do we really want to throw gasoline on a fire that is already raging by teaching our children that they can act wickedly without penalty or harm?

Pullman declares emphatically that, "I am all for the death of God"
(http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,773058,00.html). The bible teaches that God is holy, just, slow to anger, abounding in loving kindness and full of mercy. Pullman says, "… if there is a God, and he is as the Christians describe him, then he deserves to be put down and rebelled against." Do not be deceived, Pullman is targeting you and your children, "I wanted to reach everyone," he says, "and the best way I could hope to do that was to write for children."

While many parents may find the first installment of His Dark Materials non-offending, the truth is that it is part and parcel of a series that is meant to string an audience along until they are totally turned against God and the Christian faith. Since Scientologist, Nicole Kidman, who plays a leading role in, The Golden Compass, has stated that the movie version of Pullman's work, "has been watered down a little," some unsuspecting parents may believe that it is somehow safe for their children. Chris Weitz, The director and screenwriter of the film adaptation of Pullman's, The Golden Compass, has stated, "All my best efforts will be directed towards keeping the film as liberating and iconoclastic [God destroying] an experience as I can." While he has said, "there may be some modification of terms," he also added, "I have no desire to change the nature or intentions of the villains of the piece, but they may appear in more subtle guises."

Pullman has taken the title of his trilogy, His Dark Materials, from Milton's classic, Paradise Lost. His Dark Materials, is a description originally used when Milton was describing Satan's fall and subsequent decent into hell (Milton, Paradise Lost, book 2). This is fitting because Satan and his followers become the heroic characters throughout Pullman's trilogy. Many caring parents however are unaware that Pullman's, Golden Compass, is more than a simple children's movie and is in reality, a well thought out piece of satanic propaganda. Sadly, because Pullman's work openly blasphemes God and demeans traditional moral values, it is almost guaranteed rave reviews by many God-haters in the liberal establishment and mainstream media.

When Pullman admits that, "My books are about killing God," and that he wants to move our children to "decide against God" we should know that he is not talking about Islam or one of the million Hindu gods but the Judeo-Christian God. Pullman's blasphemous caricature of the one true God as revealed throughout the pages of Holy Scripture is evident through his repeated use of the biblical terms and names for God throughout his trilogy, i.e., Yahweh, Ancient of Days, Almighty, Adonai, Lord, El, King and Father.

Hollywood and the music industry have, of course, long been powerful tools of blasphemy against God and the glorification of occult themes. Yet never has such a blatant and audacious assault on the name of God been so well packaged and directed toward children while at the same time received such acclaim and fanfare from even the liberal elite. Pullman is the worst of pied pipers because he directs his poisonous venom at the most vulnerable among us, our children. He is aware that many young children lack discernment and seasoned critical thinking skills and thus hopes to gain a great victory in destroying their hope and faith in their Creator and Redeemer.

The first book in the trilogy, The Golden Compass, won the award for the best children's novel in Great Britain. The second book in the series, The Subtle Knife, won the Parent's Choice Golden Book Award. The last book in Pullman's popular trilogy, The Amber Spyglass, was the first children's book ever awarded Britain's prestigious Whitbread prize, winning not only in children's literature but in all other categories as well. It was dubbed "Britain's book of the year." The Amber Spyglass has been ranked just behind Rowling's, Harry Potter books in the New York Times Book Review. The New York Times gives Pullman high marks for his blasphemous and perverse work claiming it to be, "very grand indeed" with "scene after scene of power and beauty." Even though the Times acknowledges that "Pullman is devilishly inventive" and that his "thrillingly ambitious tale.... may well hold the most subversive message in children's literature in years."