an important message

I've been made aware recently of a movie due out December 7 called "the Golden Compass". It is disturbing to me. As far as I can tell, the author is "the anti-C.S. Lewis". His name is Phillip Pullman, and this movie has many similarities to the Chronicles of Narnia series, yet symbolizes something very aethistic. I've never been one to get into a political or theological debate, but i really want to get the truth out there. In studying up on him, I've found Pullman only to be a lost, wounded soul, with no hope for the future. He seems to mention often the theme of just living to please himself. What lifelessness?! Please do what you can to keep this sad fate from happening to many children reading these books or watching the movie.
In response to the question of whether he believes in God, Pullman writes:
"I don't know whether there's a God or not. Nobody does, no matter what they say. I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away.
Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them." http://www.philip-pullman.com/about_the_writing.asp
I found this on the Guardian Book Award Website:
"The third part of the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass, was the first 'children's book' to win the Whitbread prize. The trilogy was widely acclaimed for its gripping plot, absorbing characters, richly inventive imaginative landscape and fearless exploration of big ideas, from the nature of hell to the existence, or otherwise, of God. Some critics, however, found the third volume baggier than the previous two. The only sour note came from the religious lobby, with the Catholic Herald describing his work as "truly the stuff of nightmares... worthy of the bonfire." Not surprising, given Pullman's hatred of organised religion and his statement that "I am all for the death of God." Yet he is a firm believer that writers have a duty to tackle the great moral questions, and it is his ability to do this in such a rich and versatile manner that elevates his work above the fantasy or genre pigeonholes." http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-184,00.html