"His Dark Materials"

[C. D. Ward]

Howdy.

Has anyone else read Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy? I've heard some people express the view that they're "anti-Christian" and although I can see how they might be construed that way, I don't really see that as a necessary interpretation, although they're certainly anti-authoritarian.

Just curious how people in this forum might feel...

C. D. Ward

[Solly]

I heard them serialised on the BBC, and I heard an extensive interview with Pullman. They are anti-Christian; not, perhaps as a polemic, but in his whole attitude they are designed to caricature and undermine Christianity be mirror imaging Christian doctrine, particularly about sin "dust" and demons. I consider them more harmful the HP, but never mentioned it, since I didn't know if you guys knew about them.

slly5

[Piebald]

Yep, I've heard of it. I won't comment on 'em until I've read them (experiance from the Potter series) but I've heard the author's words and I can't say that I'd find them to enjoyable. Though the first one was reviewed by a Christian and he said it brought him to tears... it was the latter ones which he found too vitriolic and anti-Christian.

Plus they are supposed to be the Anti-Narnia; Aslan lives, man :brow:

[Epoetker]

I consider them more harmful the HP, but never mentioned it, since I didn't know if you guys knew about them.

Yes, I only mentioned that you should read the Harry Potter threads, in which I first mentioned the thesis that Philip Pullman was JK Rowling's inspiration for Gilderoy Lockhart (http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/harry_potter_granger.htm)(John Granger came up with it.) And that Rowling was an Inkling, that the Harry Potter books would go in an explicitly Christian direction, that the obsession with the books evinces the need for them, just preaching on :solly: