Beware ‘Compass’

DIANE SHIRLEY’S remarks about “The Golden Compass” [Letters, Nov. 4] that Christianity is mostly mythology shows her to be remarkably oblivious to the reality of Christian theology, the history of Christianity and its effect on civilization.

Targeting the young has always been the strategy of the destroyers of human dignity. When they succeed, the most atrocious things happen, like Hitler or the Khmer Rouge. So when we try to protect our children’s human dignity, which atheism tends to diminish, it is to defend them from the very enticing wiles of the vendor of doom.

Parents, beware. The movie is bait for the books, wherein lies the hook.

Dorothy Hoge

Newbury Park