Comments on: The Shallow End: Who Broke 'The Golden Compass'? http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/shallow_end_who_broke_the_golden_compass The best and latest movie news, reviews, features and editorials - updated daily Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:41:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: davidfrank http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/shallow_end_who_broke_the_golden_compass#comment-1432 davidfrank Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:46:38 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8078#comment-1432 <blockquote><b>cxjiek said:</b> Then please make your statements clearer next time. I also thought that you were criticizing Catholics or something.</blockquote> Maybe <i>you</i> should [I]read more carefully [/I] next time. My only criticism is directed towards the Catholic League, a knee-jerk reactionary, publicity smitten organization (with no official ties to the Vatican) that tries to speak for Catholics as a whole (something that my liberal Catholic family finds distasteful to say the least). I make my thoughts regarding the Catholic League rather explicit. At no point with in the body of the column do I mention "Catholic" without the word "League" following it. Nor do I make any attacks on the Pope, the Vatican or just your average Catholic. It's all directed at the Catholic League and its spokesman Bill Donohue. And to attack the Catholic League is Not an attack on all Catholics.

cxjiek said: Then please make your statements clearer next time. I also thought that you were criticizing Catholics or something.

Maybe you should [I]read more carefully
[/I] next time.

My only criticism is directed towards the Catholic League, a knee-jerk reactionary, publicity smitten organization (with no official ties to the Vatican) that tries to speak for Catholics as a whole (something that my liberal Catholic family finds distasteful to say the least). I make my thoughts regarding the Catholic League rather explicit. At no point with in the body of the column do I mention "Catholic" without the word "League" following it. Nor do I make any attacks on the Pope, the Vatican or just your average Catholic. It's all directed at the Catholic League and its spokesman Bill Donohue. And to attack the Catholic League is Not an attack on all Catholics.

]]> By: cxjiek http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/shallow_end_who_broke_the_golden_compass#comment-1431 cxjiek Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:23:10 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8078#comment-1431 Then please make your statements clearer next time. I also thought that you were criticizing Catholics or something. Then please make your statements clearer next time. I also thought that you were criticizing Catholics or something.

]]> By: davidfrank http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/shallow_end_who_broke_the_golden_compass#comment-1042 davidfrank Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:23:07 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8078#comment-1042 <blockquote><b>Ray from MN said:</b> Where did "iydgiydgi" say that "all Muslims" want to see "Americans" dead?</blockquote> Where did I ever say I hate Christians of the Catholic variety (which by the way, I am a Catholic) to even illicit such a response, and even better than that, what do Muslims hating on Christians have anything to do with The Golden Compass? I took swipes at the Catholic League, a think-police, publicity-loving organization that I feel falsly presents itself as the lay Catholic voice of America. My dislike is for the organization, not the religion. It's called nuance. Also as for as I know neither Phillip Pullman or Chris Weitz are Muslims, nor do I believe either has publicly announced their "hatred" for Christians. When confrontated with an argument that runs contrary to their beliefs, why do some people instantly break out the simplistic reaction that this supposed "attack" stems from something as emotional as HATRED rather than it being a simple Intellectual Difference of Thought?!?!? Oh wait, pesky nuance again.

Ray from MN said: Where did "iydgiydgi" say that "all Muslims" want to see "Americans" dead?

Where did I ever say I hate Christians of the Catholic variety (which by the way, I am a Catholic) to even illicit such a response, and even better than that, what do Muslims hating on Christians have anything to do with The Golden Compass? I took swipes at the Catholic League, a think-police, publicity-loving organization that I feel falsly presents itself as the lay Catholic voice of America. My dislike is for the organization, not the religion. It's called nuance.

Also as for as I know neither Phillip Pullman or Chris Weitz are Muslims, nor do I believe either has publicly announced their "hatred" for Christians. When confrontated with an argument that runs contrary to their beliefs, why do some people instantly break out the simplistic reaction that this supposed "attack" stems from something as emotional as HATRED rather than it being a simple Intellectual Difference of Thought?!?!? Oh wait, pesky nuance again.

]]> By: Ray from MN http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/shallow_end_who_broke_the_golden_compass#comment-1039 Ray from MN Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:42:45 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8078#comment-1039 Where did "iydgiydgi" say that "all Muslims" want to see "Americans" dead? Where did "iydgiydgi" say that "all Muslims" want to see "Americans" dead?

]]> By: bradbrevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/shallow_end_who_broke_the_golden_compass#comment-1038 bradbrevet Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:52:12 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8078#comment-1038 To say that all Muslims want Americans dead is wrong on so many levels I am not even sure it is worth getting into. To say that all Muslims want Americans dead is wrong on so many levels I am not even sure it is worth getting into.

]]> By: iydgiydgi http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/shallow_end_who_broke_the_golden_compass#comment-1037 iydgiydgi Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:25:59 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8078#comment-1037 What I don't understand is: How can liberals in the U.S. muster up such hatred for Christians, and Catholics, while not seeing the true threat of Muslims who want them dead? What I don't understand is: How can liberals in the U.S. muster up such hatred for Christians, and Catholics, while not seeing the true threat of Muslims who want them dead?

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