This is okay to expose young children to them??? Pullman doesn’t care, even though he aims at writing for them. He is *not* a responsible writer–but then again, that’s not his true agenda. And, anyway, he’s said he writes like no one but himself will read it, and criticism doesn’t bother him.

In these books, good is evil, and evil is good, in spite of Pullman denying this and criticizing journalists for coming to this same conclusion. However, Pullman thinks that if one or two of his characters show love or concern for each other, the above statement can’t be true. That’s how he tried to disprove that statement in an interview with Christianity Today–found on the long interview the author blogged about Pullman.

He also is now saying he’s not killing God because God doesn’t exist! So the Authority is “someone else” even though he clearly talks about the OT scripture, and uses YHWH in the third book (I recently confirmed its use after my 1st comment. )

Pullman is also working on a book he says is about Jesus. In the same interview with Christianity Today, he stated that he has plenty to say about Him. I doubt it is anything reverent.

Let’s have some more posts about this.

While reading the second book in the series, “The Subtle Knife”, I had wondered how a book which is so violent and defiant in nature could possibly translate into a movie. There would have to be a lot of modifying.

Some defiant messages it sends–”it’s okay if you do something bad (like beat people up if you think they deserve it) as long as you don’t get caught”, or “you can pretend to be sorry and still plan on doing something violent, again”–are awful teachings. In these books, good is evil, and evil is good.

I was totally shocked and disgusted with this book’s content which also speaks of castrating boys and girls; Lyra calling a murderer a “worthy companion”; a witch implying “if you were older, you’d understand and accept why I killed my lover and am killing myself”; etc.

These books are geared toward children, and are found in many elementary schools which, as the parent of young children, believe should not be.

On my blog, I have parts of this book quoted for anyone interested: http://naturemom.blogspot.com/

As for who The Authority is in the books, also allegedly referred to as Yahweh (YHWH–a sacred name for the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) in the third book, it’s quite clear. And with Pullman’s own admission that his books are about killing God, there is no question.

Anyone can have their own opinion, but if the author says he’s killing God, in reality, that’s what he’s doing. So Nicole Kidman is wrong, but maybe because she hasn’t *read* these books.

Chris