{"id":118,"date":"2006-09-05T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"1157473807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1157473807\/","title":{"rendered":"HDM Movies &#8220;will prove controversial&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Mail has an <a href=\"http:\/\/icwales.icnetwork.co.uk\/0100news\/0200wales\/tm_objectid=17684377&#038;method=full&#038;siteid=50082&#038;headline=filming-of-controversial--dark-materials--trilogy-set-to-trigger-renewed-cries-of-blasphemy-name_page.html\">article<\/a> on the controversy the His Dark Materials movies are poised to cause. Simon Jenkins, editor of an online Christian newsletter, said, &#8220;I&#39;m sure this new film will launch 100 anti-film and anti-book websites going through all the detailed reasons why they are wrong and why they are dangerous and pose a threat to civilisation as we know it.&#8221; Rupert Kaye, chief executive of the Association of Christian Teachers, has harsher words, calling Pullman&#39;s &#8220;blasphemy&#8221; &#8220;shameless&#8221;. Pullman agreed the books had upset some Christians, but said he was unconcerned about the prospect of the films doing the same. <a href=\"http:\/\/icwales.icnetwork.co.uk\/0100news\/0200wales\/tm_objectid=17684377&#038;method=full&#038;siteid=50082&#038;headline=filming-of-controversial--dark-materials--trilogy-set-to-trigger-renewed-cries-of-blasphemy-name_page.html\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article also raises the issue that Allah is not listed in the names of God a character gives at one point in The Amber Spyglass. Pullman did say that he would see that this was added &#8211; has anyone got a newer edition of TAS to check for us? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Mail has an article on the controversy the His Dark Materials movies are poised to cause. Simon Jenkins, editor of an online Christian newsletter, said, &#8220;I&#39;m sure this new film will launch 100 anti-film and anti-book websites going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1157473807\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}