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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 3546442" data-attributes="member: 319">Actually, as far as I understand it (well, from what I remember reading, anyway) the religious angle is being almost completely stripped out of the movies. Not sure how they'll manage that if they ever get around to filming the 3rd one, but I think - with some schadenfreude, I have to admit - that it'll be the "atheist left" that'll be doing the most moaning on this one, over how a "great book" got butchered.As for concerns with the books and the movie... (also spoilered)[spoiler]I think the true issue with the book is not the ending - this is supposed to be a fantasy, after all - but the fact that Pullman explicitly identifies the religion in question as Christianity, and goes on to write a story in which there's not one actively religious character that's a decent human being. Also, calling what the adults are doing "replacing a kingdom of heaven with a republic of heaven" is... uh... well, let's call it highly euphemistic. They do away with "heaven" entirely and by doing so replace an afterlife in which one is tormented (or at best, ignored) until one fades to nothingness, with no afterlife at all. Unless you want to count getting rendered down and turned into raw material for new souls... Which all the characters seem inexplicably happy about, as Pullman clearly tries to put a spin on the story that won't make you want to blow your brains out when you realize you just read three books about people's fight for their right to cease to exist without getting tortured first, but cease to exist nonetheless... I mean, what better way to end a children's book than with "You're going to die, but that's ooooh-kay!" :\ [/spoiler]</blockquote>

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