Why Pullman’s Godless tales will fail the test of time

Jun 10, 2018 by

By Fionn Shiner, The Conservative Woman:

Writing for Standpoint magazine, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali produces a scathing critique of Philip Pullman, arguing that he is on the side of Satan in his writings. Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is perhaps the second-biggest English fantasy phenomenon of recent times behind Harry Potter.

Pullman is an atheist and the trilogy has overtly anti-Christian themes. He has talked openly about his desire to see the ‘wretched’ Catholic Church vanish.

Nazir-Ali discusses Pullman’s strange views of parallel universes and his belief that when he dies he ‘will see the harpies’. People like Pullman have spent their whole careers arguing for the non-existence of God and are so invested in it that they will seemingly believe any old nonsense.

Thomas Nagel famously said ‘I hope there is no God!’ because of his career as an atheist philosopher. Stephen Hawking was another, so desirous of proving that God doesn’t exist that he was a proponent of the parallel universe theory, which seems to me the definition of a non-falsifiable theory. How can you disprove there aren’t parallel universes? And how can you prove it?

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