{"id":1095,"date":"2005-10-16T19:50:54","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/pullman-torqued.html"},"modified":"2005-10-16T19:50:54","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T19:50:54","slug":"pullman-torqued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/pullman-torqued.html","title":{"rendered":"Pullman, torqued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, honors the release of the Narnia movie by predictably attacking Lewis:<\/a><\/p>\n

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But Pullman said the Narnia books contained "a peevish blend of racist, misogynistic and reactionary prejudice" and "not a trace" of Christian charity. <\/p>\n

"It’s not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue," he added. <\/p>\n

"The highest virtue – we have on the authority of the New Testament itself – is love, and yet you find not a trace of that in the books." <\/p>\n

Pullman’s acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy tells of a battle against the church and a fight to overthrow God. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is Pullman irritated because the film version of his own novels proceeds in fits and starts? (I’m sort of fuzzy at this point, but as I recall, the first real script I heard about was going to drop the "Drop Dead God" angle. But then I heard a new director and\/or writer had been brought on board. I have no idea where it stands now.)<\/p>\n

Me on Pullman, the author who is ignored by the Potter-obssessed<\/a>, but is far more problematic because he has an explicit agenda to subvert theism.<\/p>\n

A First Things review, critical, far more learned and subtle than mine.<\/a><\/p>\n

(Do read the comments at the end of the BBC piece, too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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