{"id":343,"date":"2007-11-01T04:24:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/alternative-christian-responses\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T08:39:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T03:39:01","slug":"alternative-christian-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/alternative-christian-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Responses to Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from those voices who allege that a &#8220;pro-atheist stealth campaign&#8221; is being mounted by Philip Pullman and New Line Cinema, other bloggers have spoken out to defend Pullman and His Dark Materials.  Today, the official film blog posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldencompassmovie.com\/blog\/us\/2007\/10\/31\/the-golden-compass-2\/\">open letter<\/a> by Philip Nel, a professor of English children&#8217;s literature at Kansas State University, in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/religion\/compass.asp\">Snopes&#8217; page<\/a> on the Golden Compass.  <\/p>\n<p>Donna Freitas, a blogger at the religion and pop culture blog Idol Chatter, writes two articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/10\/meeting-mr-pullman-a-magical-e.html\">meeting Philip Pullman<\/a> on his American tour and why Christians <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/10\/responding-to-my-fellow-christ.html\">shouldn&#8217;t fear the trilogy<\/a>. Freitas is a professor of religion and is co-authoring a new guide book on His Dark Materials with Jason King. The book, entitled &#8220;Killing the Imposter God: Phillip Pullman&#8217;s Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials,&#8221; will look at the series&#8217; religious themes and challenge its notions of God.  <a href=\"http:\/\/donnafreitas.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/killing-imposter-god-phillip-pullmans.html\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from those voices who allege that a &#8220;pro-atheist stealth campaign&#8221; is being mounted by Philip Pullman and New Line Cinema, other bloggers have spoken out to defend Pullman and His Dark Materials. Today, the official film blog posted an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/alternative-christian-responses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-on-hdm","category-philip-pullman","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}