The Golden Compass - Must See

The Golden Compass movie, starring Nicole Kidman (Eyes Wide Shut) and Daniel Craig ("Bond, James Bond") will be one of the next movies that I see.

Yeah, I know it has gotten some lukewarm reviews. But any movie or novel that reminds me of or incorporates vaguely Jules Verne "science", including airships (dirigibles), and that manages to really piss off various Christian wackos (especially Catholics), has GOT to be good.

The Golden Compass is based on the first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.

Update: Saw it. If you missed it in the theaters, rent it.

"Born Again" Atheists

Every now and then I get some sort of response to something which generally is quite sane, but then the writer goes off on a "GOD" tangent. Which is completely inane, irrelevant, and superfluous.

Re "god" -- fuggedaboudit. Not a factor, since non-existent.
(Not going to debate religion -- I am a "born again atheist".
Everyone is born an atheist -- and most are soon programmed into some religion or another, which NEVER changes. Only a few of us throw off such superstition to again become atheists -- "born again atheists".)