Fellow guest, journalist Anna Leszkiewicz, said that it was not a coincidence that these changes are happening around the time that Netflix have purchased the rights to the Roald Dahl story company.
“There’s clearly a desire to sort of sanctify and whiteash his legacy,” said Leszkiewicz.
It's not even the atheists -- I have no problem with most intellectually honest atheists -- the problem is the anti-theists, who are usually more often than not just anti-Christian. As we've seen with Sam Harris, anti-theism is usually just a veil for arrogance and delusion.
the problem is the anti-theists, who are usually more often than not just anti-Christian
I had another reddit account banned over the weekend. Someone posted a comment that said Mohammed once cut the sleeve off his robe to avoid disturbing a cat that was laying on him. He ended by saying that the love of cats has deep roots in Islam.
I replied, "The love of child brides also has deep roots in Islam."
I got a bunch of downvotes and then a permaban. If I said the exact same thing about Christianity, I would have gotten upvotes and no way they'd ban me.
It's anti-Christianity masquerading as the more "rational" position of anti-theism, but they give themselves away when the opportunity arises to punish someone they dislike.
“Intellectually honest atheists” are called agnostics
Edit) sure are a lot of amoral angsty a-intellectuals who don’t know that a- and anti- are both negational prefixes of Greek origin which indicate a belief in the lack of God
You'd think that, as an author AND an atheist, he would well understand the dangers of cancel culture.
But it just goes to show that even self-proclaimed "free thinkers" like atheists - they're still culpable to the same zealotous religious bandwagon behavior. (Shun the non-believer! Shunnnn!)
The author has always been very anti-Christian. His fantasy series is basically about humans defeating God and overthrowing the shackles of God's oppression. Atheists like this (anti-theists) usually have a chip on their shoulder, probably come from a religious upbringing and blame their unhappy childhood on Christianity. They resent having a conscience that makes them feel guilty when they violate Christian moral principles.
This is common among people on the Left. They are oppressed by their own guilt, insecurities or mental disorders but instead of acknowledging that the source of the problem is within themselves, they blame others (society, men, whites people, Christians, etc).
On the subject of how Luciferian pride and materialism has always hobbled Pullman's hatefics, I'll just quote myself speaking on that very subject (and also George RR Martin, this was originally from a thread on GoT/HOTD) from years ago on this very site:
Quite a few passages from LOTR stand out to me, but one that holds a special place in my heart is this one from ROTK, when a completely exhausted Sam lies down amid the lifeless rocks and ash of Mordor. He's totally beat, pretty much on the verge of collapse, and then looks up at the grim sky above...
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.
I can't think of anything Martin or Pullman have written that struck me like those sentences did. Truly it's no wonder crass, cynical materialists and second-rate authors like GRRM and Pullman resent this dude so much and hope to take his place in readers' hearts; they can't make anything quite like what he made, because even this single passage impresses upon us the existence of immaterial things worth fighting for - indeed of greater worth than anything in our fleeting material world - while such things are antithetical to their worldview, and does so with greater grace than both of them combined could hope to have.
Oh, but I can go a level deeper than even that. Who is the lord of Mordor? Sauron. What are Sauron and his boss Morgoth best known for? Besides being archetypical fantasy dark lords, they originally created orcs by mangling and twisting captive elves, tearing every bit of goodness from them until all that's left is ugly cruelty, seething hatred and a total lack of belief in any higher power but the master who rules them. Sauron did this and wages war on the Free Peoples of Middle-earth in the name of imposing rationality and order, Morgoth did it because he's just a destructive spiteful asshat.
And now we have Martin, who thinks he can beat out Tolkien by writing medieval fantasy based on LOTR but 'darker and edgier', meaning hollow, cynical and full of pretenses of being 'realistic' when it's actually uglier than our real Middle Ages; and Pullman, who seeks to attack C. S. Lewis' books about kids having adventures against a fantastic backdrop full of religious allegories by making a fantasy work of his own where God is both evil & impotent, rationality and freedom (as defined by a modern antitheist progressive) are the things to aspire to past the controlling oppression of the church, and the at-best barely pubescent male & female leads are implied to have sex at the end.
Yeah, can't imagine why those two might get assblasted at any comparisons to Sauron, or more generally when their works are compared to the ones they totally didn't rip off & try to 'deconstruct'!
I’m going to assume here that the word better doesn’t have anything to do with skill in storytelling or entertaining, but in how closely they follow the woke orthodoxy.
I saw the main character's actress and knew it would be as bad as the movies. Fanfiction lets you get a taste of the source material and every single one, the 'daemons' are mary sues telling the character they are in love with the obvious villain and is completely a vile cunt.
Pullman's a loudmouth with an obvious chip on his shoulder when it comes to better known and better venerated children's authors. He would probably oppose the censorship of Dahl's books (his own books were censored in America some years ago) if pressed on his glibness, but he's a loudmouth and therefore inconsistent so I don't know.
Netflix again.
Obama.
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In the end, every atheist eventually admits who they really serve.
It's not even the atheists -- I have no problem with most intellectually honest atheists -- the problem is the anti-theists, who are usually more often than not just anti-Christian. As we've seen with Sam Harris, anti-theism is usually just a veil for arrogance and delusion.
I've never met an intellectually honest atheist. As far as I'm concerned they're theoretical.
I had another reddit account banned over the weekend. Someone posted a comment that said Mohammed once cut the sleeve off his robe to avoid disturbing a cat that was laying on him. He ended by saying that the love of cats has deep roots in Islam.
I replied, "The love of child brides also has deep roots in Islam."
I got a bunch of downvotes and then a permaban. If I said the exact same thing about Christianity, I would have gotten upvotes and no way they'd ban me.
It's anti-Christianity masquerading as the more "rational" position of anti-theism, but they give themselves away when the opportunity arises to punish someone they dislike.
A-theism == Anti-theism
“Intellectually honest atheists” are called agnostics
Edit) sure are a lot of amoral angsty a-intellectuals who don’t know that a- and anti- are both negational prefixes of Greek origin which indicate a belief in the lack of God
A-gnostic means without knowledge
A-theist means without God
In what world or dictionary or etymological line of thought does “a-theist” mean “I don’t worship” lmfao
Your attempt at pilpul doesn’t work on me.
/> The Agnostic Atheist doesn't assert that there is no God, he just hasn't bought in to the notion.
Literally not what any of these words mean. “Agnostic atheist” is an oxymoron of the lowest order.
No, actually it was my argument that you’ve raped the English language, and that you should refer to an etymological dictionary.
Nice attempt at further pilpul however
> read better authors
> read me
You'd think that, as an author AND an atheist, he would well understand the dangers of cancel culture.
But it just goes to show that even self-proclaimed "free thinkers" like atheists - they're still culpable to the same zealotous religious bandwagon behavior. (Shun the non-believer! Shunnnn!)
The author has always been very anti-Christian. His fantasy series is basically about humans defeating God and overthrowing the shackles of God's oppression. Atheists like this (anti-theists) usually have a chip on their shoulder, probably come from a religious upbringing and blame their unhappy childhood on Christianity. They resent having a conscience that makes them feel guilty when they violate Christian moral principles.
This is common among people on the Left. They are oppressed by their own guilt, insecurities or mental disorders but instead of acknowledging that the source of the problem is within themselves, they blame others (society, men, whites people, Christians, etc).
Pullman has never made a secret of how he basically wrote His Dark Materials as a take-that to Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and of his Michael Moorcock-esque disdain for LOTR, he's kept both (and his dislike for Christian or Christian-influenced anything in general) on display for ages.
On the subject of how Luciferian pride and materialism has always hobbled Pullman's hatefics, I'll just quote myself speaking on that very subject (and also George RR Martin, this was originally from a thread on GoT/HOTD) from years ago on this very site:
Quite a few passages from LOTR stand out to me, but one that holds a special place in my heart is this one from ROTK, when a completely exhausted Sam lies down amid the lifeless rocks and ash of Mordor. He's totally beat, pretty much on the verge of collapse, and then looks up at the grim sky above...
I can't think of anything Martin or Pullman have written that struck me like those sentences did. Truly it's no wonder crass, cynical materialists and second-rate authors like GRRM and Pullman resent this dude so much and hope to take his place in readers' hearts; they can't make anything quite like what he made, because even this single passage impresses upon us the existence of immaterial things worth fighting for - indeed of greater worth than anything in our fleeting material world - while such things are antithetical to their worldview, and does so with greater grace than both of them combined could hope to have.
Oh, but I can go a level deeper than even that. Who is the lord of Mordor? Sauron. What are Sauron and his boss Morgoth best known for? Besides being archetypical fantasy dark lords, they originally created orcs by mangling and twisting captive elves, tearing every bit of goodness from them until all that's left is ugly cruelty, seething hatred and a total lack of belief in any higher power but the master who rules them. Sauron did this and wages war on the Free Peoples of Middle-earth in the name of imposing rationality and order, Morgoth did it because he's just a destructive spiteful asshat.
And now we have Martin, who thinks he can beat out Tolkien by writing medieval fantasy based on LOTR but 'darker and edgier', meaning hollow, cynical and full of pretenses of being 'realistic' when it's actually uglier than our real Middle Ages; and Pullman, who seeks to attack C. S. Lewis' books about kids having adventures against a fantastic backdrop full of religious allegories by making a fantasy work of his own where God is both evil & impotent, rationality and freedom (as defined by a modern antitheist progressive) are the things to aspire to past the controlling oppression of the church, and the at-best barely pubescent male & female leads are implied to have sex at the end.
Yeah, can't imagine why those two might get assblasted at any comparisons to Sauron, or more generally when their works are compared to the ones they totally didn't rip off & try to 'deconstruct'!
I’m going to assume here that the word better doesn’t have anything to do with skill in storytelling or entertaining, but in how closely they follow the woke orthodoxy.
Didn’t this guy shit on CS Lewis and Tolkien as well? Whatever it takes to get your YA ripoffs over I guess.
Hmm never read any of it. I saw the HBO or whatever show and it was pretty sad. I watched one season and I kind of don't know why.
I saw the main character's actress and knew it would be as bad as the movies. Fanfiction lets you get a taste of the source material and every single one, the 'daemons' are mary sues telling the character they are in love with the obvious villain and is completely a vile cunt.
Pullman's a loudmouth with an obvious chip on his shoulder when it comes to better known and better venerated children's authors. He would probably oppose the censorship of Dahl's books (his own books were censored in America some years ago) if pressed on his glibness, but he's a loudmouth and therefore inconsistent so I don't know.