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'''Philip Pullman''' is the atheist author of ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', a [[trilogy]] of [[fantasy]] novels for [[young adult]]s where the ultimate victory is killing the Judeo-Christian [[Yahweh|God]]. He has written several other books which have generated no controversy. A movie based off The Golden Compass, the first in His Dark Materials, was released in 2007.

'''Philip Pullman''' is the atheist author of ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', a [[trilogy]] of [[fantasy]] novels for [[young adult]]s where the ultimate victory is killing the Judeo-Christian [[Yahweh|God]].  

Critics brand his books subversively anti-religious. Defenders point to the facts that they are only stories and contain moral themes that correlate with the ones religions promote. His books actually have overtones against organized religion and blind obedience, not necessarily against the peaceful practice of religion on its own. He has stated that he only has a problem with religious organizations having political power, as opposed to religion itself.

Critics brand his books subversively anti-religious. Defenders say it's all good fun.

 

*... He is adept at public moralising. He has denounced [[Narnia]] as ‘morally loathsome’, describing CS Lewis’s series of books as amongst the ‘most ugly and poisonous things’ he has read. Indeed, Pullman directly counterpoises his ‘non-Christian’ trilogy to the ‘Christian’ Narnia. <ref>http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4169/</ref>

 

 

*Pullman is a [[militant]] [[atheist]] and [[secular humanist]] (who describes himself as both an [[agnostic]] and an atheist) has said "I don’t profess any [[religion]]; I don’t think it’s possible that there is a [[God]]; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ’spiritual’ or ’[[spirituality]]’" and despises [[C. S. Lewis]] and the [[Chronicles of Narnia]]. His motivation for writing this trilogy was specifically to counteract Lewis’ symbolisms of [[Christ]] that are portrayed in the Narnia series. <ref>http://www.joelevi.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/04/the-golden-compass-an-attack-on-god/</ref>

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