I've been seeing a lot of coverage concerning this movie in the media and am surprised that nobody has mentioned anything on here yet. A news article which sums up the "controversy" can be found here: Jeannie Babb Taylor: The Golden Comp!@#$%^&* -- Pointing kids to atheism? I myself, if not obvious by now, am against nearly all organized religions. I find the argument the Catholic/Christian community is using to be somewhat ridiculous and nearly conspiracy theory like. I don't really think the movie (or the book) is out to get Christians or Catholics at all but is just presenting another side to the argument. I would think that people like the Catholic league and others would be more than happy to present the other side of the argument. At least, the "different view" of things is always the argument used when they attempt to bring the creationism/intelligent design ideas into public schools. So I suppose those communities REALLY only care about the other side of the story when that story is their faith. In the case of children being "baited" into seeing the movie, I think that's also a silly idea. Being anti-religious, if I did have children and they wanted to go see a religious movie, say, the Chronicles of Narnia, I wouldn't have an issue with that. I would encourage them to see that movie. I don't really want to be the determining factor behind what my children believe in when it comes to religion, I want them to be able to decide for themselves. I'd say the churches telling people not to see the movies and read the books because they have "atheist" agendas is no better than !@#$%^&*embling those books and movies into a pile and setting fire to them. It's almost as if the churches are afraid of something, like this single movie will debunk their entire faith.