Golden Compass of not being an anti-religious dick

I saw an interesting post on Xanga about Golden Compass, or rather, the principles behind not seeing it.

So here's the gist. As far as I know (and I'm too lazy to wiki it), and I'm sure many of you know as well, Golden Compass is based on a series of books written by an atheist for the express purpose of "killing God" - in other words, manifesting the downfall of Christianity in the form of a story.

Back to the Xanga post. This guy is against seeing the Golden Compass movie. Not because it's a bad movie, not because the story is bad. In fact, he says it's probably a great movie, based on a great book. And though the guy is Christian, he's not avoiding it because of the author's beliefs. He's boycotting the movie because the author thinks he can deliberately downtrod on Christians and their beliefs and still make money off of it. It doesn't matter if the studios eliminate the anti-Christian motifs from the movie; the fact of the matter is that the author is essentially giving all Christians the finger, and one way or another, he's benefitting from it.

It's a point that I didn't see before. I've heard of Christians avoiding the movie, for the obvious reasons, but I didn't share their views: I only saw it as another movie. Granted, I probably wasn't going to see it anyway, but now I have a damn good reason. I fully agree with the Xanga guy's point. In fact, I'll take it a couple steps further.

While he urges all Christians to avoid the movie, I urge EVERYONE to avoid it. Atheist, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Jain, agnostic, Unitarian, what-have-you... no matter what you believe, I think all people can agree that it takes a real fucking lowlife to step all over what someone else believes. It's a virtual Holocaust, all dolled up by Hollywood. Oh yes, I'm comparing Philip Pullman to Hitler.

Of course, I won't avoid seeing it altogether, nor am I saying you should. I'm just not going to pay for it, or expect anyone else to. While I'm generally cautious about mentioning people's piracy habits, I'm fully advocating this: download Golden Compass. You get to see your movie, and it's a nice big fuck you to Pullman for each person who sees his movie without paying. Fire up Limewire or whatever you've got, and smile while watching what's supposed to be this season's blockbuster. Smile because you enjoy the movie, and because you get to piss all over Pullman's profits.