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A couple of years back I wrote a response to the movie The Da Vinci Code.  After the movie actually came out and proved to be one of the sorriest movies ever made, I believed that I had been snookered and I might as well write about Sasquatch, alien abductions, and other such things, and [...]

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Just a few thoughts on the Phillip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy, which I am currently in the process of working my way through.  It’s the holidays, and I did not feel like organizing these into a more coherent post or developing any of these into separate full-length posts right now, so just take what [...]

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I hear there’s a new movie about to come out that promotes atheism to young people.
The Golden Compass is the first book in a trilogy by author and noted atheist Phillip Pullman, a book all about what a blessed place the world would be if we all just got rid of religion and lived lives [...]

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Well, it took a few weeks but I finally got around to seeing this movie.
This review by Michael Spencer put me in the right frame of mind to see and appreciate this movie, and I was not disappointed.  “Dumb cops, weird intellectuals, and a 354th cousin of Jesus” certainly seemed to be an accurate description [...]

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Well, it looks as if all the trouble I went to to write a response to The Da Vinci Code may have been for naught.
Michael Spencer saw the movie and wasn’t too crazy about it.
Neither was Catholic blogger Amy Welborn.
If these reviews are any indication, the movie was not even remotely close to being worth [...]

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“The Da Vinci Code” opened in theaters this weekend. It seems as if all of evangelical Protestant-dom is lining up to take pot shots at it, so I will join the fun as well. Here are my observations on the movie and the hype surrounding it.

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