Ignorance and Fear: Tools of the Devil

I can't believe that people are still so widely ignorant.
To wit: The Golden Compass
Phillip Pullman's book was translated into a movie and it is a very good movie if you haven't read the book.
Why do ignoramuses blinded by conservative religious dogma have to protest everything without examining anything first? Apparently they know nothing about literary analysis or symbolism.
And the funny thing is they believe what they hear without any intellectual curiosity as to whether what they have been told is true or not.
It happened with the Harry Potter books... which are brilliant in their depth. No child with any brain is going to turn to witchcraft after reading them.
More notably it happened with the movie The Last Temptation of Christ. The book quietly sold in Christian bookstores before the movie came out. Wild-eyed, religiously-poisoned lunatics protested outside of theaters, which only drew much more attention to the movie.
(I never cared to see it.)
The human world we are in can be so stupendously pathetic because it is blind to reason.
The Golden Compass is about stealing the souls of children, robbing them of their free will, thereby making them tools of the Devil who appears in the slinky form of "Mrs. Coulter."
That's funny. That's exactly what happens with people who follow leaders without question, never caring if what they seek to destroy or turn people away from might just actually be a good thing... whether it's a book, a movie or our fellow human beings.