Thoughts on "His Dark Materials" trilogy? Book and show :marseypolarbear: :marseywitch2: :marseypope: :marseyfedoratip:

!bookworms what are your thoughts?

I never read, I only watched the Nicole Kidman film and the first season of the show. But I did some wikipedia reading on their fictional world

>people have dæmons which are their souls living outside their bodies in the shape on an animal

>Jean Calvine became Pope and the Church, I mean, the Magisterium, became some totalitarian uber powerful org in charge of Europe.

>God and the angels exist and our heroes want to kill them because the Kingdom of God is bad, Republic of Heaven is good and Church bad or something.

!catholics thoughts?

I did like the victorian-to-dieselpunk aesthetics the film and show have with the dirigibles and balloons, even if dirigibles are gay.

@ACA can you ping the calvinists and atheists please?

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I read them as a kid, they're examples of why we still need a banned books list for !Catholics. I object both on the basis that they seek to undermine faith amongst the youth and on the basis that adults should not read YA lit.

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Which books would you ban?

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Kids should read wholesome woodland critters being very violent being under threat of demographic replacement.

!bookworms

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I loved that shit as a kid

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Oh frick Redwall went so fricking hard, heck yeah.

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I object to his villinization of ferrets. Shrews should be the evil foreigners.

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Agree

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Ban is maybe harsh, I just wouldn't let kids read them.

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NAZI

:#soycrytalking:

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less degenerate youth media means the kids will have more time for historically-accurate & badass educational material, like dino laser battles

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hmm...that big tiddied kaiju who shoots lasers out of her booba...it's gonna make me act up! :marseycoomer2:

!furries !alligatorfrickhouse

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Is this Dino Riders or Dinosaucers or Denver the Last Dinosaur?

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I think that the irony here is that kids read the books, ignored (because they didn't get) all his SOCIAL MESSAGING and just loved them for magic! witches! talking bears! He hasn't destroyed Narnia and Lewis's books, and the greater irony is that Tolkien - whom he would probably detest as much as Lewis if Tolkien had been more explicitly Christian in his writings - is still the Big Name in fantasy, where the LoTR movies (and even the disappointing Hobbit trilogy) did way better than the Dark Materials and Narnia movies.

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If you're a child set to lead a life of faith, wouldn't you benefit more than anyone from reading stories on the perils of faith and how it can be a negative force?

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Yeah unless you're r-slurred, you should want your kids to question things sometimes

The reason I ditched religion as a teenager was I wanted to jerk off and not go to church, not because I read some pseud book

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Eh I was in elementary school when they released and I don't think it was a mentally healthy exercise at that age.

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There are better ways to caution children against zealotry than introducing moral relativism and midwit "Church evil" worldviews to them.

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they seek to undermine faith amongst the youth

That's a soft explanation, the books plainly paint the church as thoroughly evil.

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