[FoRK] His Not-So-Dark Materials

[Lion Kimbro]

  Oh, wow.

  The Dark Materials novels are Gnostic stories about
  killing the Demiurge ("master technician.")

  You might want to rethink this alliance, Jeff;
  I don't think this is quite the right tool for atheists...


  It's true that they're Anti-Church, ...
  ...but it's because they're Pro-Life.

  That is, the universe of the Dark Materials is *clearly*
  holy and filled with the spirits of life.  That's *why* it's
  so essential that the characters fight:  For the health
  of the multiverse.

  Is this *really* what you want to be teaching the
  little ones, Erisian?


On Nov 28, 2007 9:25 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
> While we're on the topic of the pernicious influence of religion,
> check out the implicit and pervasive censorship caused by our
> unjustified deference to the religious.  Philip Pulman's novels are
> inherently about "killing God."  However, in fear of the church lobby
> and general American religious mania, the studio and director of the
> movie adaptation have played down the religious aspect of the story
> --- the whole point of the story --- and instead substituted the
> notion of a political, dogmatic authority for the notion of religious
> authority.
>
> Cf.  http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-12/
> ps_compass
>
> The religious memeset has a dangerous, unacceptable stranglehold on
> our society.  It's time for all of us who disagree with this to stand
> up and be heard.
>
>
> jb
>
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