Pastor’s E-Pistle

Beware of the Christians
The author, Philip Pullman, makes no bones about the fact that he intends the books to be a proselytizing influence for atheism and secular humanism. He has said that he “wanted to give a sort of historical answer to the, so to speak, propaganda on behalf of religion that you get in, for example, C.S. Lewis.” In a lecture given in March 2000, he publicly stated that “of all the dangers that threaten us at the beginning of the third millennium — the degradation of the environment, the increasingly undemocratic power of the great corporations, the continuing threats to peace in regions full of decaying nuclear weapons, and so on — one of the biggest dangers of all comes from fundamentalist religion.” He then went on to single out Christian conservatives in the United Sates as being one of the gravest dangers, along with the Taliban in Afghanistan.[1]

^[1] The information in this paragraph is from Darkness Visible by Nicholas Tucker, 2003 by Wizard Books. It is an authorized and highly sympathetic examination of the author’s works.

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