Were the people objecting to this book planning to keep the Inquisition secret from their kids?
Seems to me, they have religious objections to the Inquisition itself being seen as a bad thing. Kind of like how certain other people object on principle to any and all taxes, in that it's not practical for them right at this time to actually reveal how far they want to go, so they tone it down a bit. As far as I can tell, they really do want to go back to killing people for disobedience to their perceived God.
And the movie has just about none of what you just described (I saw the movie, and am just now partway into the book). They cut it out of the adaptation, hoping thereby not to offend anyone. And, yes, from the content of the movie, it's not on the top 200 list of films with ideas incompatible with Christianity. The Magisterium might as well be a fascist secret-police government as a "church". But the neo-Calvinists are screaming their heads off anyhow. For the same reasons they scream their heads off about Harry Potter the Satanist, and not being able to force all others to say "Christmas" instead of any other name for December festivities.
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Date: 2007-12-16 05:23 pm (UTC)Were the people objecting to this book planning to keep the Inquisition secret from their kids?
Seems to me, they have religious objections to the Inquisition itself being seen as a bad thing. Kind of like how certain other people object on principle to any and all taxes, in that it's not practical for them right at this time to actually reveal how far they want to go, so they tone it down a bit. As far as I can tell, they really do want to go back to killing people for disobedience to their perceived God.
And the movie has just about none of what you just described (I saw the movie, and am just now partway into the book). They cut it out of the adaptation, hoping thereby not to offend anyone. And, yes, from the content of the movie, it's not on the top 200 list of films with ideas incompatible with Christianity. The Magisterium might as well be a fascist secret-police government as a "church". But the neo-Calvinists are screaming their heads off anyhow. For the same reasons they scream their heads off about Harry Potter the Satanist, and not being able to force all others to say "Christmas" instead of any other name for December festivities.