Tuesday 23 March 2004

The Dark Materials debate: life, God, the universe...

In a follow up (first one!) to my previous post on His Dark Materials, here's the transcript of a debate (well, more of a cosy chat really) between Pullman and Williams about, you know, what it's all about. A high point for me was Pullman's pondering on Lethal Jesus:

What fascinates me about the phenomenon, is that churches apparently are spending thousands of pounds buying, block booking tickets and giving them away to atheists in the hope that by seeing someone tortured to death we'll reform.

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