Outrage?

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Originally Posted by HerenIstarion

See also Acceptance of mythology? by Snowdog

That thread at times tended to sound like an AA meeting, except instead of "My name is Joe and I'm an alchoholic" , the refrain ran, "I'm a Christian..."

Originally Posted by HerenIstarion

Funny that I haven't encountered any Pullman-bashing web page yet, though, as his books definitely fill 'for children' bill in bookstores. Or are there some?

Well, there was a news report that the movie script for Pullman's first book was being substantially watered down in its criticism of organised religion as the Authority and substituted political powers as the offending organisation of power.

I wonder if part of the response to Rowlings was motivated in fact by the zealous fan behaviour of her initial readers. Hasn't Tolkien grown slowly in reputation so that the initial response to him lacked the kind of fan fervour we see today? It always seems easier among a certain set to ban the cause of excess rather than discuss excess as a human propensity and give it its due place, although these days Tolkien certainly invokes a similar excess among some readers.