If you went to the movies recently and watched “The Golden Compass”, you hopefully did not take your children. If you did, or if you bought Pullman’s trilogy in book-form for them, you should read this article on the Chalcedon website, and probably have a serious talk with your children before throwing the books out.
“Satanism for Young Readers: A Review of His Dark Materials“
Let me quote from the article what Rushdoony has to say about Satanism, so that we know what we are talking about:
“Philip Pullman has been anything but bashful about his atheism. He proudly proclaims it whenever he spots a microphone.
The message of his books, however, is not atheism.
It’s satanism.
We’re not talking about pop-culture satanism here, a bunch of dolts in black robes dancing around a pentagram. This is real satanism.
“In his [Satan’s] hostility to God,” R. J. Rushdoony writes, “he believes that the creature should have the same powers [as God] by right. Satan believes in creaturely and human rights. His goal therefore is to push man into rebellion to test his theory in the hopes that man, as civilization develops, will triumph.” (R. J. Rushdoony, Genesis (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 2002), p. 41.). This is what satanism is about: the tempter’s seduction of man by offering him equality with, or even superiority to, God.”
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