Commentaries on Our World

Free Thought and Fiction

Isn't it strange that The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman has been so roundly criticised in the Christian Media. Having just seen the Film at my local Cinema, I now wish to read the books in his series it was taken from. Yes, I can see the Magisterium is Catholic and critical of the church in that way. Good reason to be critical, after all the Catholic Church has made some serious mistakes in the past, keeping those errors hidden will not result in progress for them or the rest of the world.

Surely fiction can cover such topics without such censorship from the religious. They should be concerned with writings that tell the truth in the non-Fiction field. A work of fiction is just that, untrue, relative and only a commentary. All the other good attributes of fighting against the odds, heroism and honesty were portrayed well, lesson can be gleaned, distrusting the established Church is perhaps a good thing.What ay ye?