[Marxism] Lewis v. Pullman

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

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I'd never chimed in on any of the threads involving Frank Furedi,
never having heard of him until a year ago. But an article by him
currently at the top of aldaily.com touches on something I'll be
writing on down the road.
(direct link: http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAF37.htm
"The curious rise of anti-religious hysteria; It is the Anglo-American cultural 
elites' insecurity about their own values that encourages their frenzied 
attacks on religion. by Frank Furedi")
The piece is a defense of C.S. Lewis as a hook for attacking the left
for being "intolerant" toward religion. aldaily couples it with an
equally stupid and vicious attack on Richard Dawkins' recent anti-
religion BBC special.
Furedi's piece itself is mildly interesting. Its logic is somewhat
akin to Todd Gitlin's baiting of antiwar activists only more extreme.
The main reason I even mention it though is to draw attention to
what Phillip Pullman has said about Lewis (he abhors him for all the
right reasons), and to encourage everyone to read Pullman's "His
Dark Materials" series.
Lewis and Pullman are both amazingly readable in totally different
ways -- but Pullman proves an atheist can write an fantasy novel
as good as there's ever been: exciting, heartbreaking, thought-
provoking, and thoroughly anti-religion.




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