Hmmm
November 30, 2007
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 anti-theological Gulliver's Travels. Etc. etc.etc. And what about the Manicheeism of William Blake? Better scratch The Songs of Innocence and Experience. Come on, guys, face
it -- Lewis was a decent children's novelist with terrible theology; Pullman is
a passable children's novelist with terrible atheology. If you can't read them
without being led astray, don't read them; but a good fantasy story is
a good fantasy story.