Christian groups slam Golden Compass

[Alex]

Re this:

he fears the movie would "plant seeds" to "ultimately encourage some fans to reject God."

It is an irony I didn't want to get into in my review, but

Spoiler:

The "evil goal" of the bad guys in the movie is their experimentation in pursuit of a way to completely protect children from the temptation towards questioning received authority and even awareness of its existence.

So, seeing as I would disagree with such approaches, seeing certain groups advocate just that very thing in response to this movie makes me smile while being sad about it.

As one commentator I saw said, if you're faith is going to be destroyed by a movie, then there were other problems with it (your faith) anyway.