Wednesday, 10 March 2004

Kill God. Let Them All Sort It Out.

A whole article on His Dark Materials without mentioning just how cool armoured bears are...
It is, though, a look at how the atheism of the book (and now play) may not be all that it seems.

A modern French Christian writer spoke about "purification by atheism" - meaning faith needed to be reminded regularly of the gods in which it should not believe. I think Pullman and Wright do this very effectively for the believer. I hope too that for the non-believing spectator, the question may somehow be raised of what exactly the God is in whom they don't believe.

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