The Golden Compass is coming!

[elfs]

Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass is going to be in theaters soon, and already the Catholic League and other mouthbreathing organs of Christianity are frothing. Pullman's novel, which has as one of its principles the notion that eating from the tree of knowledge was the start of something good (a sentiment with which I heartily agree), has them panty-waisted morons claiming that civilization will die a horrible death if too many impressionable young hearts go see it.

To which Mark Morford writes:

If your ancient, authoritarian, immutable belief system is threatened by a handful of popular novels, if your ostensibly all-powerful, unyielding creed is rendered meek and defenseless when faced with the story of a fiery, rebellious young girl who effortlessly rejects your stiff misogynistic religiosity in favor of adventure, love, sex, the ability to discover and define her soul on her own terms, well, it might be time for you to roll it all up and shut it all down and crawl back home, and let the divine breathe and move and dance as she sees fit.

Mark Morford, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways!

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Innocence lost

[omahas.livejournal.com]

I have, in fact, not read The Golden Compass (Yamarrashi-chan is reading it right now, trying to finish it in time to watch the movie, so I suppose I will read her book when she is done). But honestly, you don't need a snog to lose your innocence. I think that once the kiss goes from being the innocent kiss of friendship to the deeper kiss of intimacy, that's when the innocence has been lost.