Amber Spyglass, More British Phrases, Sigs

[Amy Z]

Amy:

> > P.S.  He's not waging war on God.  He's waging war on an angel who 
> has been falsely worshipped as God for a few thousand years.  JMHO.

Ben: 

> A fallen angel, no less.  Everything goes back to losing paradise 
> doesn't it?

Yup, sure does.  (Pullman inspired me to read Paradise Lost, something 
I'd never done except to study up on relevant bits when I was studying 
the Romantics.)

The catch is, the fallen angel is clearly supposed to be the Christian 
God.  Needless to say, this irks some readers(!).  However, it's my 
view that the range of Christian belief encompasses many, many ideas 
about God, good and bad, many of which are mutually exclusive, and for 
my money Pullman backs the good ideas and disses the bad ones, most of 
the time.  But I'm not a Christian, so writers who have harsh words 
for the Church don't bother me in the least, as long as they're 
thoughtful about it.

You can see that I'm determined to turn this into a general 
theological discussion no matter what.  What can I say?  My parents 
say I've asked about God from the time I could talk (for some reason, 
car rides brought it out in me), and thirty years later, I'm still 
obsessed, with no signs of slowing down.

Amy Z, heterodox minister
~off to do errands, hoping the time in the car will jump-start a 
sermon that's coming very sluggishly~