# Golden Compass anti-Christian?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-compass-anti-christian/424024>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-compass-anti-christian/424024 "2007-10-25T20:29:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-compass-anti-christian/424024/61 "2007-10-29T20:33:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar]

The first movie looks good, but (agreeing with many other folks in this thread) I can’t imagine what _The Amber Spyglass_ is going to look like as a movie.  
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My WAG, FWIW:

If you could replace the Authority / Metatron with some sort of branch of the Magisterium… The soldier of Metatron that attacks Will just before he escapes into the other world could become a soldier of the Magisterium; Mrs. Coulter could manipulate and betray the leader of the Church (a Pope figure?) instead of Metatron.

Thus the text becomes more atheist and anti-corrupt religion than anti-theist; people will still get offended, but hopefully less so.

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