'The Golden Compass' is anti-Christian: Vatican

London, Dec 21 (IANS) The Vatican has slammed the new movie "The Golden Compass" and asked New Line film studio not to distribute it.

The film, based on a novel of the same name by Philip Pullman, has topped the box office in Britain but the Catholic church called it anti-Christian and cold. The Vatican has issued a statement saying it hoped New Line would abandon the idea of filming the sequels, reports contactmusic.com.

The statement said: "In Pullman's world, hope simply does not exist because there is no salvation but only personal, individualistic capacity to control the situation and dominate events."

It further called the movie the "most anti-Christian film possible". The film portrays the church as an orthodox dictatorship, which conducts cruel experiments on children and tries to suppress free will.

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