ólo quiere dominar el mundo y la protagonista de la historia termina matándolo.
[The Mail on Sunday, 27 January 2002, p.63]
In the week that a children’s writer who claims God is dead and the Church is wicked wins a prestigious literary prize…
This is the most dangerous author in Britain.
Philip Pullman is being hailed as the new C. S. Lewis after being awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year prize for his latest novel aimed at children: The Amber Spyglass. The judges described it as visionary, but PETER HITCHENS reveals that the author appears to have his own sinister agenda…
The atheists have driven God out of the classroom and off the TV and the radio, and done a pretty good job of expelling him from the Churches as well. But one stubborn and important pocket of Christianity Survive, in the Narnia stories of CS Lewis. Now here comes an Opportunity to dethrone him and supplant historical books with Others Which Proclaim the death of God to the young.
If You are wondering why the children's author Philip Pullman have Collected a major prize and why Such a huge fuss is Being made of him, now you know. He is the anti-Lewis, the one the Atheists Would Have Been praying for, if Atheists Prayer.
Children instinctively like Lewis's enthralling stories and events notice Often Do Not Religious Their message, Though it frequently goes deep Into Their Minds and emerge later. How infuriating this is for Parents literate liberal But, the sort of people Who work for the BBC and want all the Advantages of a Christian culture Without the tiresome bother of HAVING to worship a God They Think They Are too smart to believe in. Spotting this trend, Lewis's publishers last year toyed with Producing 'sequels' Without Any Christian references, pero retreat under a barrage of Thunderbolts from Lewis supporters.
Until now, liberal, atheist Parents Have Had to buy the Narnia books, reading out loud to Them Their young Between clenched teeth, Hoping the messages of Faith, Forgiveness, grace and resurrection Do Not get through. Now at last They Have an alternative and an antidote, the supposedly brilliant Pullman, who - According To the reviewers - is a new Lewis and a new Chekhov rolled Into one. Of historical
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amous children's books, the first two, Northern Lights and The Subtle Knife, are captivating and clever, but the third, which took the Whitbread prize, is a disappointing clunker with some gruesome and needlessly nasty scenes. This is probably because The Amber Spyglass - in which God dies - is too loaded down with propaganda to leave enough room for the story. None of the trilogy is a patch on any of the Narnia chronicles. You can't help wondering if the praise and the prizes, handed out by reliable, liberal establishment sorts such as Channel 4 News's Jon Snow, are because of Pullman's views as much as his writing. For Pullman has said: 'I hate the Narnia books, and I hate them with deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling-away. " He knows perfectly
What He is doing well. Openly and Rightly Believes He Can Be a storytelling form of moral propaganda: 'All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends Them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more Effectively Than Moral Precepts and Instructions ... We do not need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: We need books, time and silence. "Thou shalt not" is soon forgotten. " Pullman
've Said Many Times That He Thinks God is dead. Since I Can not know if this is true, it raises the question of whether I Also Hopes That God is dead. I Told
an Oxford literary conference in August 2000: 'We're Used to the Kingdom of Heaven, But You Can Youll from the generated thrust of the book That I'm of the devil's party, like Milton. And I think it's time we Thought about a republic of Heaven INSTEAD of the Kingdom of Heaven. The King is dead. That's to say I believe the King is dead. I'm an atheist. But We Need Heaven nonetheless, we Need All the Things That Heaven meant to, we Need joy, we need a sense of Meaning and Purpose in Our Lives, we need a connection with the universe, all the Things We Need the Kingdom of Heaven Used To But promise us failed to Deliver. " None of this
Makes sense. If There Is No God, Then Who Makes the rules of the supernatural world Which Pullman create, in Which People Have Called visible souls daemons, magic knives cut holes Between the Worlds and specters devour life? How Is It That the deadlive on in a ghastly underworld of unending misery and torment, yet Heaven There Is No? In
historical worlds, the Church is wicked, cruel and child-hating; Priests Are sinister, murderous or drunk. Political correctness creeps in leadenly. There is a brave African king and a pair of homosexual Apparently angels. The one Religious character turns out to Be Who Is That benevolent liberal favorite, an ex-nun Who Has renouncer her vows and lost her Faith. Even so, she sets out on a perilous journey When ordered to do so by angels, Who through to speak to her computer.
Pullman, like Lewis, lives in Oxford, Though a long way from the outlying suburb Where the creator of Nami eleven dwelt and is now buried. A good thing, Probably. The sound of Lewis chuckling at th from serious historicale idea of angels speaking to a renegade nun Might get through to computer on Pullman's Nerve.
I do not really ask for a boycott but could not stand idly by. I believe in free will and who wants to see it to do-and I say in good faith. I know there are many people who do not believe in God or that God is something separate and has nothing to do with their lives. But these books and the idea that Pullman wants to bring is hard for me to accept. Personally, I am someone who
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in the innocence of childhood, from illusion to believe in the impossible fantasy, unicorns, princesses and mermaids. I transfigured the eternal struggle between good and evil in all fantasy stories to our diAryan life. Examples of those stories that I love and with whom I identify are Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Neverending Story ... If we follow his example, who can assure me that we are not running with it? Let's just cruel and we say to children that there are no Three Kings, the mouse or the tooth fairy did not leave the money under his pillow. And also once ordered to stop dreaming and do not read fairy tales.
Now let everything upside down, Luke really did not help his father, Anakin, but he walked away from the well, according to Pullman. Frodo and Sam should not have given the ring, on the contrary, they should have stayed with him, according to this gentleman. And Peter, Susan, Edmundemos with Allah because they accept the ideas of the Muslims?
If I'm honest, I'm sorry man. I wonder what happened in your life trancurso take to write something and say that CS Lewis books are a waste of time, books that teach children the loyalty, courage, compassion and honesty values are needed, most especially in these days we seem to be backtracking. I am very concerned this and a little scary to me ... If Pullman was able to get away with a prize-up received by the last book of the trilogy, "Who will do so in the near future?
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