The Golden Compass Controversy
The older I get, the more it is clear to me that the popular euphemism, âHistory repeats itself,â is one of the few sayings; ubiquitously popping up is every history class at one time or another; to be absolutely true. Oftentimes something outrageous or controversial hearkens this saying to our lips. For instance, the McCarthy era of the1950s saw people eager to âname namesâ of suspected Communists in Hollywood royalty. This seems vaguely similar in scope to the most famous of all witch hunts, the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, no? Furthermore, any article or report I have ever read about the genocide occurring in the Darfur region of Western Sudan seem eerily familiar to accounts I have read of or seen about the Holocaust. It should not seem like a lark, then that the recent stirrings about the Catholic Church and their vehement discontent with the Philip Pullman trilogy, His Dark Materials; more specifically with the first book in the triad, the Golden Compass; bring to mind......
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