{"id":495,"date":"2009-12-22T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/12\/22\/no-sequel-to-golden-compass\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:52:00","slug":"no-sequel-to-golden-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/12\/22\/no-sequel-to-golden-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"No sequel to &#8220;Golden Compass&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/SzDQaILqAkI\/AAAAAAAAAYs\/T53mVmB1Of8\/s1600-h\/the-golden-compass2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 270px;height: 400px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/SzDQaILqAkI\/AAAAAAAAAYs\/T53mVmB1Of8\/s400\/the-golden-compass2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Catholic League&#8217;s Bill Donahue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/release.php?id=1741\">claims credit for getting the Phillip Pullman sequel film pulled.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>POST SCRIPT:  A pertinent question, I suppose, is: how would Bill Donahue react if atheists had boycotted and lobbied re. the first Narnia film &#8211; succeeding in getting sequels stopped &#8211; on the grounds that such films are Christian propaganda (C.S. Lewis was a fairly conservative Christian, Aslan represents Christ, the White Witch Satan, etc.) and, in particular, that the films represent those who fail to follow Aslan\/Jesus &#8211; i.e. atheists &#8211; as morally weak and\/or depraved and evil creatures in the grip of The White Witch\/Satan.<\/p>\n<p>If he would be somewhat disgusted (and I think he&#8217;d have a right to be, to be honest &#8211; damn, <span style=\"font-style:italic\">I&#8217;<\/span>d be disgusted at such petty-minded,  bullying censorship from atheists!), how would he square that with his crowing over (he claims) his success in getting the Pullman sequels stopped because of their supposedly implicit anti-religious message? Is it OK to be a bullying censor if it&#8217;s in the cause religion, but not if in the cause of, say, atheism? I wonder what he&#8217;d say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic League&#8217;s Bill Donahue claims credit for getting the Phillip Pullman sequel film pulled. POST SCRIPT: A pertinent question, I suppose, is: how would Bill Donahue react if atheists had boycotted and lobbied re. the first Narnia film &#8211; succeeding in getting sequels stopped &#8211; on the grounds that such films are Christian propaganda (C.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}