Why didnt you see The Golden Compass?

Nice apologetics, ender.

Also, for those who seem confused about it: faith and knowledge aren't mutually exclusive. I am faithful, yet I've seen fit to pursue all kinds of knowledge to better understand the universe, whether that be scientific, archeological, anthropological, theological, etc ... Though a challenge, it's a worthy pursuit of one's life to seek understanding. Thus far, though the puzzle is no where near being complete, I have not found the logic/free thinking side of existence to be at odds with certain systematic religious ideas.

Oh, and to the guy who quoted a NoFX song as his method of understanding a large portion of the the people on this earth: laughable.
 
When the hell was the last time Nicole Kidman had a damn hit?

Lets see..


Golden Compass - Flop
Stardust - Flop
Invasion - Flop

Trends developing..

She used to be a bankable star.. now .. not so much
 
[quote name='Ice2Dragon']Stardust - Flop[/QUOTE]
What?

Anyways, the answer to your question is Happy Feet in 2006, though she wasn't really a headliner on that one.
 
[quote name='the ender']"Free thinking"? I beg to differ. Athiesm is, by it's definition and nature, a very constricted form of thinking. You said it yourself:

"I believe what my life and views of the world lead me to believe"

So your only way of believing and seeing the world is through your own eyes, never once considering that there may be more out there than what you are able to contact with your 5 senses. In your eyes, it must be tangible and provable to be real, as if our scientific methods and human senses are the only possible ways to know if something exists. That is not free thinking; rather, you're a slave to your own flesh.
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Much like you are a slave to your faith. I'd be willing to bet there are certain things you'd never even consider doing because of your religion, and not all of them are what you would call sins. Without the restraint and conditioning of religion, and lets face it, without someone to teach you there was a God, you'd never know and you'd get on with life, you are free to consider whatever you will.

The church is decent at combating paths of thought that would endanger their numbers, as you pointed out earlier, just say that its a trick by Satan or that it is ungodly and you satisfy your sheep. But meh, some people are too far gone to reason with when their faith has almost completely replaced their basic logic.
 
I voted that I didn't want to see it. But, I very rarely go to the movies. Having a toddler will do that to you.
 
[quote name='Ugamer_X']It looked fuckin' stupid.[/QUOTE]
I do believe that this is the main, and correct answer, for the majority of the people who did not see it (including myself)
 
[quote name='jbuck138']I voted that I didn't want to see it. But, I very rarely go to the movies. Having a toddler will do that to you.[/QUOTE]

From the rest of the "I just paid $9.25 to see a movie, if you could shut your fucking giant obnoxious gob (or your child's), that would be lovely" crowd, I sincerely thank you.
 
I usually wait till a movie I want to see has been in theaters for a few months and go watch it for $2 or wait even longer, rent it and watch it from the comfort of my Lazy Boy while enjoying pop and popcorn that still allow the cost to remain below $3. Another positive here is that my feet don't stick to the floor and I can get a pause if nature calls.
 
I trudged my way through the book a few years ago and hated it, so I figured it wasn't worth the $8. Only reason I would have gone was to spite a girl at my school who went on a thirty minute rant during class about how none of us should go see it because it's about killing Jesus...but pissing her off wasn't worth $8 either.

Not that many things are worth $8.
 
Gee who could've predicted that this thread would turn out like this? It's too bad that comparing your dick size is taboo to the Christian guy otherwise this might've gotten interesting.
 
Where's the "I did see it?" option? :lol:

Yeah, I took my kids and saw it. Only movie I've seen since the Simpsons movie. Really, 95% of movies these days have very little interest for me. I glanced at the rest of the movies showing last weekend and not a single other one had any appeal to me.

My 10 year-old daughter liked it, my 7 year-old son got bored and asked me halfway through "when will this be over?". So it was a mixed bag. But I do have to say that any of the religious arguments against this MOVIE are pretty off-base. I haven't read the books (though my mother got them for my daughter for Christmas so she will probably read them), but I was aware of the general issue people had with them. However, if you went in not knowing anything about it you would just get the general impression that an overbearing government (that may or may not also be some undefined form of organized religion though I figure that would go over most kids' heads) is not a good thing. Big whoop - we already knew that ;). Again, I'm basing this on the MOVIE itself, not on the books, or what the author has said, or anything else... I believe this govt. entity is called the "Magisterium" which for all any kid knows is like the Ministry of Magic in the Harry Potter series. There's a little bit about an academic institution pushing back against the government censoring their research (also, sort of like Harry Potter) and I'm all for that. But all in all, it was pretty tame compared to what I was expecting from all the ginned up "controversy".
 
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