Category Postcards from Palookaville

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Hmmm

If intention is the key to Pullman’s error, then I guess we should also discourage Christians from reading Milton’s polemically anti-Trinitarian, anti-orthodox Paradise Lost.And Pascal’s anti-Protestant Pensees.   And Gibbon’s anti-Christian Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.  And Swift’s…

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Hmmm

If intention is the key to Pullman’s error, then I guess we should also discourage Christians from reading Milton’s polemically anti-Trinitarian, anti-orthodox Paradise Lost.And Pascal’s anti-Protestant Pensees.   And Gibbon’s anti-Christian Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.  And Swift’s…

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Dark Materials

Justin T just brought this book to my attention.  Haven’t read it but may be of interest: Personally, I think I may well boycott the movie after all: apparently it’s set in Oxford University which is a simply frightful…

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Dark Materials

Justin T just brought this book to my attention.  Haven’t read it but may be of interest: Personally, I think I may well boycott the movie after all: apparently it’s set in Oxford University which is a simply frightful…

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And there’s more

When I was a child, I read and read the Arabian Nights, and loved the storiesabout Scheherezade, Ali Baba, Al-Ahdin, the Djinn in the bottle and others equally fantastic more than anything else which I read; yet, strange to tell,…

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And there’s more

When I was a child, I read and read the Arabian Nights, and loved the storiesabout Scheherezade, Ali Baba, Al-Ahdin, the Djinn in the bottle and others equally fantastic more than anything else which I read; yet, strange to tell,…