Canadian school bans Northern Lights

[UnquietDad]

All about it here

I'm amused by the fact that they've had the books on the library shelves, presumably, for a good few years, and have only just noticed that the author is - gasp, shock, horror! - an atheist. It's not as if PP attempts to make any secret of the fact!

All about control. As usual.

(Do you think I could ask for the Bible to be removed from my local children's library because of all the sex and horrific violence in it? Nope, thought not.)

Just like the fanatics who wanted to burn/ban Harry Potter books.

Are they going to ban Walt Disney next?

yeah, theres a really subversive song in Winnie the Pooh's Most Grand Adventure....

Canadians are generally great people but many of them are so OTT PC it's just not true.

I read the books recently and I was stunned at how radically atheist and humanist they are. Not what you would neccesarily expect from a children's story.

It is completely brilliant that Pullman has managed to generate a rich and beautiful humanist mythology based on the Christian mythology.

And banning any book, apart from being completely unethical, is like waving a red flag to a bull. Excellent promotion really, isn't it?

Hmm, nicely timed for the film!!

But 'apparently written by an atheist' what planet are these folk on?

The same planet, I assume as George H. Bush, who said in 1989 that atheists didn't count as citizens.