Some people just won't be happy

So if you're a right-wing type person who thinks that avowed atheist Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, (which does portray religion as less than awesome) is, you know, Satan's dark material, you think you'd be happy that the upcoming movie adaptation removes all the religious stuff and just makes a nice holiday fun fantasy family film. But boy, would you be wrong!

"These books denigrate Christianity, thrash the Catholic Church and sell the virtues of atheism," said Bill Donohue, president and CEO of the Catholic League..."[The filmakers are] intentionally watering down the most offensive element,” Donohue said. “I'm not really concerned about the movie, [which] looks fairly innocuous. The movie is made for the books. ... It's a deceitful, stealth campaign. Pullman is hoping his books will fly off the shelves at Christmastime."

Clever, clever atheist! Get all of Hollywood to dance to your clever ploy of making a movie that doesn't hate God from your books that do hate God in order to sell more books so that kids will hate God! Good job. Does anybody else have anything inane to add?

[Ted] Baehr [head of The Christian Film and Television Commission] said. "We'll put out writings on the book. Children who buy into this are going to be trapped in a sad, desperate world."

Yes, the sad and desperate world of reading fiction. Somebody get those kids out of there and back to Sunday School! Thanks, Ted.

But seriously, the books are awesome, you should go read them if you haven't already. Make them fly off the shelves at Christmastime! It'll be worth it just to see the look on Donohue's face Christmas morning.