Thirdway, a Christian magazine site, interviewed Philip Pullman, the author of His Dark Materials, an astonishing trilogy which I recommend. These were marketed as juvenile novels in the UK, and they put Mr. Potter, et. al. to shame.
Pullman’s been described as the Anti-Lewis, since the triology is set against a multiverse-spanning war against G_D, and the interview focuses on Pullman’s take on deism in general and Christianity in particular.
This is the mistake Christians make when they say that if you are an atheist you have to be a nihilist and there’s no meaning any more. Well, that’s nonsense, as Mary Malone discovers. Now that I’m conscious, now that I’m responsible, there is a meaning, and it is to make things better and to work for greater good and greater wisdom. That’s my meaning — and it comes from my understanding of my position. It’s not nihilism at all. It’s very far from it.
