On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:24:42PM +0000, Richard Baker wrote: > dubious articles together with accusations of bigotry or Erik talking > about religion rotting brains (or whatever; that's not a direct quote, > of course, but I hope he doesn't think I'm misrepresenting him). For a
Close enough. What I find amusing is that I think Dan's view of prostitution is actually extremely similar in many ways to my view of religion: Sure, there may be a small number of people doing okay at it, but mostly it is full of really messed up people. I recently read the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman, and while I enjoyed the story, I did find it lacking in a few areas, especially the third book (daemons appear for some formerly daemonless when you go into a daemon world but not always, specters can sometimes fly and sometimes not, ghosts can sometimes hold together outside the underworld and sometimes not, who is the "grace" who gave Lyra the power to read the alethiometer and then took it away, absurd ending "can only keep 1 window open" which was obviously just to make the bittersweet romantic stuff work out, etc.) but what really amused me was reading the reviews on amazon.com. Instead of being critical about the shortcomings of the story, more than a few people complained about the books being marketed to young people and either specificially stated or strongly implied that parents need a chance to indoctrinate their children with religion before it is safe to expose children to Pullman! Heh. I guess the religion fungus can only reliably grow in the dark. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
