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Line 43: + + − He's not trying to make an accurate (or even objective) of the Narnia books. He just wants to keep anyone from reading them, so they'll have more time to read his "Dark Materials". + − + − The Islamic society is the only civilization left on earth which has slavery. Narnia's Calormen has parallels with both medieval and modern Islam. Always trying to conquer, treating women as second-class citizens, lack of democracy, and so on. − − Pullman's critique of Narnia is insane. − I guess he didn't read "The Lion", because there's love all throughout that story. The girls sympathize with Aslan (whose only motivation is clearly love), and even the mice come to chew his ropes off - not out of instinct but love.+ − − Pullman's critique is typical of liberals. They lie about Christian things, hoping you'll stay away from those things and never check up on them. Because if you do, the first thing you discover is that the liberals have lied.
→Criticism of Pullman
Most of Pullman's criticism is based solely on the controversial ''His Dark Materials'' series, the series for which he became famous and is most well known, in particular the killing of [[Yahweh]], the Judeo-Christian God as the climax of the novels.
Most of Pullman's criticism is based solely on the controversial ''His Dark Materials'' series, the series for which he became famous and is most well known, in particular the killing of [[Yahweh]], the Judeo-Christian God as the climax of the novels.
==Pullman's Motives==
Pullman is quoted as saying:
Pullman is quoted as saying:
* "I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief."<ref>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/C1983916159/E20071118075122/index.html</ref>
* "I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief."<ref>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/C1983916159/E20071118075122/index.html</ref>
==Odd quote about the Chronicles of Narnia==
"The highest virtue, we have on the authority of the New Testament itself, is love, and yet you find not a trace of that in the books," he said.
"The highest virtue, we have on the authority of the New Testament itself, is love, and yet you find not a trace of that in the books," he said.
Considering the entire set of books is an allegory of Jesus' love, this statement is especially odd. There is a great deal of love among family members, love of country, and sacrificing to do the right thing. Indeed, it would be hard to read more than a few pages without coming across a strong concept of love. The comment has little to do with the works he is discussing.
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