From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Thought for the Day
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:41:58 -0400
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From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Thought for the Day
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:01:15 -0400

 > candymadigan at mindspring.com 04/16/02 07:44PM >>>
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 >>The same with Philip Pullman; if the loons who believe that the Potter =
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 >>books teach witchcraft (oh, dear, this could lead to the collapse of the
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 >>Republic . . .) were to read "His Dark Materials" trilogy, well, they'd =
be =
 >>on the first flight to Oxford to burn the dear boy at the stake.
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 >Oh yeah.  *Excellent* books, but just as clearly slanted against the =
Church
 >as the Narnia books were slanted *towards* Christianity.

He has an opinion and is quite willing to present it.

I was amused to see HarperCollins back off of their planned Narnia =
"sequels" that downplayed any religious aspects of the books. See the =
spin: http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/books/2001-07-18-narnia.htm . =
Maybe Eric Flint will write one . . .

mjw

 >
 >Candy
 >

One of the things I find most amusing about the entire conntroversy is that
th _So You Want To Be a Wizard_ books have come out roughly in the same time
interval as the Potters, but there hasn't been any uproar about them at all.
  Probably something to do with the numbers, at  guess..

Lee on the left
Who finds the entire thing amusing

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