On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:34:24PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: > Oh, as if you aren't going to get your children to the age where they > CAN read Pullman without having already let them know at least some of > the basics of your religious beliefs! > > And, gee, maybe you can just monitor what they're reading, and when > they're done with the book, DISCUSS it with them!
Yes, that would certainly be a rational way to handle it. Another thing that amused me was that despite all the talk about Pullman killing God, it seemed to me that the entity in the story most similar to God (i.e., sharing many of the properties attributed to God, albeit one exception being that it can be seen) is Dust itself. One might say that the goal of the protagonists was to SAVE God. Heh. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
