Pullman not anti-religious enough for Dawkins
From Snowmail:
... we have the only interview with Richard Dawkins, the man who thumps God the way some people thump their Bibles, on the week that he leaves his job as Oxford's Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. He confides in us his new ambition, to write children's' books, and make rationality as attractive to kids as the sorcery of J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman.
Yes... not sure "Fun with Denying Divinity" is really going to catch on Potter-style, but good luck to him I suppose.
I guess Pullman's position of "nothing wrong with the religious impulse, I just hate organized religion" is sufficiently wishy-washy to be tantamount to kissing the Pope's ring, in Dawkins's eyes.
... we have the only interview with Richard Dawkins, the man who thumps God the way some people thump their Bibles, on the week that he leaves his job as Oxford's Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. He confides in us his new ambition, to write children's' books, and make rationality as attractive to kids as the sorcery of J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman.
Yes... not sure "Fun with Denying Divinity" is really going to catch on Potter-style, but good luck to him I suppose.
I guess Pullman's position of "nothing wrong with the religious impulse, I just hate organized religion" is sufficiently wishy-washy to be tantamount to kissing the Pope's ring, in Dawkins's eyes.