| Re: Dæmons vs. Human Soul
Oddly enough I've never seen what was anti-Christian about Pullman's trilogy (even though he says it himself!). What Pullman rails against is more about institutionalised, dogmatic religion/mindsets of any kind, that stifle the human spirit. Such things have little to do with the real tenets of faiths such as Christianity, Islam or whatever.
The values that Pullman teaches are more or less identical to the values supposedly most cherished by the major religions (even if they don't always stick by them). And at the end of the day it's how you behave, not what you believe ;-) |