Anne, No biggie.
Jon, as I said, I've not read his work and have nothing to go by but his quotes in this thread. I find it very amusing that many "religious" people often never fully read or watch the "offending" material and could not discuss any points of the persons work. They also encourage others NOT to read or view it so you have a lot of people all complaining about something they have never seen or read, and many of them if they did read it would not understand it anyway. They only know what to believe when someone tells them what to think.
When people mention anything I'm unfamilar with, beit political, religious, musical, etc. I make a point to investigate it on my own from several sources. I don't believe I can take anyone's word or understanding of a subject over my own. I could also never discuss anything if I never actually saw or read it firsthand.
I remember when a lot of people were upset over Soundgarden's
Jesus Christ Pose. Cornell never actually criticized Jesus persay, but the Pharisiee types who claim to do good in his name while serving their own ends. I'm in complete agreement with him on that (as was Jesus). Sadly a bunch of fools never actually listened to the song or read the lyrics because some "religious watchdog" told them it was wrong. One wonders if he was too dense to understand it or if he knew perfectly well what the true content was?
As I said, I have no personal opinions about Pullman except from what I've read which were supposedly his own words. While I might disagree with some of his thoughts on Lewis (Lewis should really be valued for his Apologetics alone), That certainly doesn't mean I would dislike or disagree with with his own personal writings. I will save that judgement for when and if I read them.
I don't usually enter into conversations like this (especially not having read or seen the subject!
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) because it's so easy for words to become misconstrued and people to take sides aginst one another. I spoke up because I understood Mike's views, but I also sympathized with Klondike. Both had valid points (as did everyone else in this thread), but sometimes each of us needs to look at the other persons POV and see where they are coming from.