…against ignorant critics.
“Why attack ‘Compass’ but not C.S. Lewis?” by Jonathan D’Ambrosio (rogerebert.com Letters)
My own two cents: How many of you who denounced and/or boycotted the movie have actually read the book? How can you honestly criticize that which you have not read or seen?
Geoffrey is an Aristotelian-Liberal political philosopher and an adjunct instructor for Buena Vista University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Transformers and Philosophy. He lives in Edgewood, KY with his wife and two children.
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Well, to be fair, I read all three books and saw the movie.
My main beef with the book is not that it is anticlerical agit-prop; my main beef is that it is anticlerical agit-prop done badly. My main beef with Mr. Pullman personally is that he hides, rather than boasts, about the message he is preaching.
Speaking as a science fiction writer (and not as an armchair theologian) I think the third book is particularly poorly executed. If you are curious, my reasons for so saying are here:
(http://johncwright.livejournal.com/134046.html)
(http://johncwright.livejournal.com/136385.html)
(http://johncwright.livejournal.com/136606.html)
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