[Northern Yankee]

Pullman believes that Lewis's books portray a version of Christianity that relies on martial combat, outdated fears of sexuality and women, and also portrays a religion that looks a lot like Islam in unashamedly racist terms.

'It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue. The highest virtue, we have on the authority of the New Testament itself, is love, and yet you find not a trace of that in the books,' he said.

You're right... this guy is a creep.

I am in the middle of reading it again, and I don't see anything in the book that resembles Islam fanaticism anywhere.

Absence of Christian virtue? What planet is this guy on? Mr. and Mrs. Beaver just rescued Lucy, Susan, and Peter from the White Witch.

Father Christmas?

The benevolent old gentleman who brings goodness to the land of Narnia. No Christian virtue? I don't know what this guy is reading, but it ain't The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe. This guy sure has got an axe to grind. I dare say that he's not showing any Christian virtue at all by lashing out at this film.

[Northern Yankee]

Reading that Pullman is an avowed atheist, I can see why there seems to be no Christian virtue in his statements, which raises a point of contradiction in him.

If he complains that the movie has no Christian virtue, then he must be admitting that there is Christian virtue out there. How is that possible, if he's an avowed atheist?

Like the agnostic telling the minister, "I don't believe in God, but what do you think God thinks of people like me?"

[Miss Marple]

Oh, it doesn't surprise me. When people like this start on a rant, they don't see anything but what they want to see.

The book talks about loyalty and honor. Aslan at the Stone Table is a perfect example of Christian love.

I have never read this Pullman characters' books, and from what I have seen here, I don't believe I will.