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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #3315 on: December 07, 2011, 03:05:30 am »

The Golden Compass, google search resulted in http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

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Claim:   The 2007 film The Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes.

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A Los Angeles Times article on the Golden Compass controversy noted that:
[Pullman]'s never hidden his skepticism about God or his rejection of organized religion. A quick Internet search turns up a 2004 essay he wrote deploring "theocracies" for a newspaper in his native Britain, and his own Web site states that he thinks it "perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it." "His Dark Materials" features a sympathetic character, an ex-nun, who describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake," while "The Amber Spyglass" concludes with the two child heroes participating in the dissolution of "the Authority," a senile, pretender God who has falsely passed himself off as the creator of the universe.
Since I highly doubt that the term Christianity was ever used in those books, I call shenanigans. The series seems to be anti-religious in general, not anti-Christian.
"Magisterium" is obviously parody/satire of Catholic Church ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magisterium especially as it is quite similar to inquisition). But this book is rather "religion is bad" than "CC is bad".
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #3316 on: December 07, 2011, 03:07:55 am »

The Golden Compass, google search resulted in http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

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Claim:   The 2007 film The Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes.

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A Los Angeles Times article on the Golden Compass controversy noted that:
[Pullman]'s never hidden his skepticism about God or his rejection of organized religion. A quick Internet search turns up a 2004 essay he wrote deploring "theocracies" for a newspaper in his native Britain, and his own Web site states that he thinks it "perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it." "His Dark Materials" features a sympathetic character, an ex-nun, who describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake," while "The Amber Spyglass" concludes with the two child heroes participating in the dissolution of "the Authority," a senile, pretender God who has falsely passed himself off as the creator of the universe.
Since I highly doubt that the term Christianity was ever used in those books, I call shenanigans. The series seems to be anti-religious in general, not anti-Christian.
"Magisterium" is obviously parody/satire of Catholic Church ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magisteriumes especially as it is inquisition+Inquisition+black legend of Inquisition+Inquisition)
As is the Church of God Awaiting from David Weber's Safehold series. It is a stated goal of the main character to utterly destroy this church, so I'm kinda surprised that the fundamentalists aren't complaining about this.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #3317 on: December 07, 2011, 03:12:41 am »

The Golden Compass, google search resulted in http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

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Claim:   The 2007 film The Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes.

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A Los Angeles Times article on the Golden Compass controversy noted that:
[Pullman]'s never hidden his skepticism about God or his rejection of organized religion. A quick Internet search turns up a 2004 essay he wrote deploring "theocracies" for a newspaper in his native Britain, and his own Web site states that he thinks it "perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it." "His Dark Materials" features a sympathetic character, an ex-nun, who describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake," while "The Amber Spyglass" concludes with the two child heroes participating in the dissolution of "the Authority," a senile, pretender God who has falsely passed himself off as the creator of the universe.
Since I highly doubt that the term Christianity was ever used in those books, I call shenanigans. The series seems to be anti-religious in general, not anti-Christian.
"Magisterium" is obviously parody/satire of Catholic Church ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magisteriumes especially as it is inquisition+Inquisition+black legend of Inquisition+Inquisition)
As is the Church of God Awaiting from David Weber's Safehold series. It is a stated goal of the main character to utterly destroy this church, so I'm kinda surprised that the fundamentalists aren't complaining about this.
Probably because the Golden Compass was film for kids.
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« Reply #3318 on: December 07, 2011, 03:18:36 am »

(cutting down the quote tree)

True. Still, you'd think that at least one person would be trying to get it banned. One of the books opens with a scene of priests being hanged (not by the church, mind you) for inciting a massacre. Other scenes have somewhat graphic details of Inquisitorial "interrogations". On the other hand, many of the protagonists are highly religious and a few are even clergy.
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« Reply #3319 on: December 07, 2011, 03:11:27 pm »

The whole Bureau's network just turned into molasses. Anybody know if Anonymous/LulzSec/whoever is up to something?
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« Reply #3320 on: December 07, 2011, 03:13:03 pm »

The whole Bureau's network just turned into molasses. Anybody know if Anonymous/LulzSec/whoever is up to something?

LulzSec have pretty much gone on Hiatus after disbanding, rebanding, then disbanding again. Anonymous? Def. not. Maybe it's skynet? :O

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« Reply #3321 on: December 07, 2011, 04:15:06 pm »

I remember seeing a satellite tracker thing for physics last year  and one of the military satellites was called Skynet.
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« Reply #3322 on: December 07, 2011, 04:20:29 pm »

I remember seeing a satellite tracker thing for physics last year  and one of the military satellites was called Skynet.

What could go wrong? :P

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« Reply #3323 on: December 07, 2011, 06:57:14 pm »

Almost as fun:  there is a company that plainly named itself Satellite Tracking of People.  I've processed a few shipments of theirs through customs.  I totally flipped out the first time I saw it.
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« Reply #3324 on: December 07, 2011, 07:06:56 pm »

Almost as fun:  there is a company that plainly named itself Satellite Tracking of People.  I've processed a few shipments of theirs through customs.  I totally flipped out the first time I saw it.

Not that different from what apple does lol :P

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« Reply #3325 on: December 07, 2011, 07:10:01 pm »

I was just astounded that they would actually name themselves that.
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« Reply #3326 on: December 07, 2011, 07:14:33 pm »

I was just astounded that they would actually name themselves that.

They could've called themselves ACME :P

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« Reply #3327 on: December 07, 2011, 07:15:45 pm »

I love the acronym. Acronyms are so much fun sometimes.

What made me go WTF was if they did that on purpose or not.
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« Reply #3328 on: December 07, 2011, 07:34:37 pm »

Almost as fun:  there is a company that plainly named itself Satellite Tracking of People.  I've processed a few shipments of theirs through customs.  I totally flipped out the first time I saw it.

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« Reply #3329 on: December 07, 2011, 07:46:38 pm »

That is ok, a company I used to work for was intentionally acronym-ed: BAD.
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