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Entry: The Broken Compass Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_broken_compass#11610 Post contents: I'm an atheist who is (a) sympathetic to Paleoconservatism and (b) has read Pullman's trilogy, though I haven't seen the movie. The trilogy is inveterately hostile to Catholicism, but so rabid is it that I found some of the Catholic villains rather more sympathetic than the Satanic 'heroes', such as the child-sacrificing Lord Asriel. I kept expecting the protagonists, Lyra and her boyfriend, to reject the Satanists at the end, but no, Pullman has them swear unthinking allegiance to Satan (who's female), like good little stormtroopers - and this is the position he advocates! He has a blind, religious faith in rebellion and revolution as good-per-se. He's the exact opposite of genuine humanist fantasy authors like Michael Moorcock, who advocate that people think for themselves. In all, in fact, I have to say I thought these were evil books, from a very unpleasant mind. Sent at: 2008 08 30