On Tue, 02 January 2001, "Keith Fraser" wrote:

> There's been a lot of brouhaha about Harry Potter being supposedly blasphemous or satanic because it contains magic. I think this is nonsense, and here's something that puts the debate into perspective and shows that HP is only under attack because it's popular.
> 
> In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (which I'm currently reading the third book of, The Amber Spyglass, the first two being Northern Lights and The Subtle Knife), no less weighty a subject is  tackled than a war against GOD (the Authority), who seems to be being set up as a lying villain. Now, I have no problem with this idea, not being very religious, but if I were a devout Christian I think I  would probably have shut the book and stopped reading at some point. However, I haven't heard anything about fundamentalist groups trying to ban this trilogy! I don't know precisely how popular it is, but I  certainly haven't heard a murmur against it.
> 
> Something to think about.

Keith, I completely agree and think I actually posted something along these very same lines quite a while back.  In fact, my husband and I had this same discussion just last night!

Jeralyn, the Voicelady
current book: "Winter's Heart" by Robert Jordan
Current CD: the Beatles' 1
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