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'''Philip Pullman''' is the [[atheist]]ic 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]].  

'''Philip Pullman''' is the [[atheist]]ic 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 also written several other successful books, none of which have caused any controversy. He has won awards for his writing.

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

Certain Christian groups brand his books subversively anti-religious. Pullman himself has stated that the books are not anti-religious and that he has a problem with religious organizations when they have political power. Defenders point to the facts that the books are only stories, no one is forced to read them, and they in fact contain morals like the ones supported by religions.  

 

==Pullman's views on religion==

*... 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>

==References==

==References==

==Links==

==Links==

*[http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1359866 http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1359866] A negative review of the author.

There used to be a link to a rude bit of writing about Pullman.

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