that is horrible. ok, make a group, but it's immature to use one pullman quote as your one piece of evidence. it pisses me off that they won't even be open to an opposing viewpoint. the first book barely has any anti-religion comments in it. and last time i checked, wasn't it against organized religion and not religion itself? (the republic of heaven).

this is all reminiscient of the huge "controversy" that john lennon sparked in the mid 60's by indirectly saying that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. people took his comment in a way it wasn't meant to be taken and look what happened.

The grand irony of it all is that the american conference of bishops or something like that said it was "intelligent" and basically praised the movie. I'm not anti-religious myself, but I think Pullman is secretly pleased that his movie has caused so much controversy and has actually served to prove his point that the Church is choosing what people must think. (They're not allowing Christians to see the movie). Pullman is coming off as the victor while the Church looks like fools