Golden Compass Author on the Nature and Meaning of Dust

A conversation between The Golden Compass author Philip Pullman and Donna Freitas author of Killing the Imposter God on the meaning and nature of "dust" in the His Dark Materials trilogy.

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• Golden
• Compass
• His
• Dark
• Materials
• Pullman
• Freitas
• interview
• Killing
• Imposter
• God
• dust
• dark
• matter
• amber
• spyglass
• knife

[fronzman8]

very very good. this man sees very clearly. i find that the reaction of the christian community towards this film and the books only strengthens the point that he makes. if they have so much faith in their religion then i don't see why they fear this so much.

[galadriel22]

The Christians who speak against the movie make huge mistakes:

1. Now more people want to see it

2. They assume that what the books/movie depictes IS the Catholic Church or Christianity (in other words, they implicitly and ultimately accept the worst aspects of it)

3. They confirm point 2 by telling people what to do: "don't watch the movie", and thus give reason and real substance to the fiction created by Pullman.

[lionheart95100]

@fronzman8 Phillip Pullman has a key misunderstanding of who the God is, and even more so who Jesus Christ is. Even the most intellectual people can miss the point. 

[AkasukiKain4545]

What I don't see is why Christians make such a big deal about not letting their kids read this because they have the right (as I know as a Catholic) to confirm whether or not they want to remain a Catholic. I think parents should let their kids be open to other religions (or no religion at all) because no parent decides their children's life for them, or at least shouldn't.

[poliwhirl16]

loll at people believing two nudists took dietary advise from a talking snake and that the world is flat

[Funkyflorist]

Replace the word 'Dust' with 'God'...

I kept coming away from the movie (and then the book) that it was more 'pro-religion' or at least 'supporting a personal relationship between humans and god'.

"Maybe (God) is good."

[yamara34]

@toReasonWhy LOL

[yamara34]

@mrlittlemarvel "the temptation to doubt if resisted may lead you to knowledge to assure you of the truth." That's so stupid. Doubt leads to truth. Either back to what you were once certain of, after you've weighed the facts, or to what is actually true

[megablade3331]

He doesn't believe in god there for I hate him and his movie and books.

[thisisjustamisnomer]

@toReasonWhy Wow. Touché good sir... or madam. Touché.

[toReasonWhy]

@alliterativeaudrey

How could he not know the future? He is omnipotent, not to mention omniscient. It is in the definition of both of those that he must know literally everything. Luckily, he doesn't actually exist.

[toReasonWhy]

Wow. This conversation was a bunch of dust. Not like the form of matter in his books, like actual dust. Floating around, meaningless, full of airy pompousness and mutual masturbation. Wait, I guess that last part makes this conversation different from dust. One dust particle doesn't flatter another just to get laid after an interview.