http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... f-God.htmlPhilip Pullman, the children's author, is set to cause controversy with a new book - called The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - denying that Jesus was the son of God.
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Next up: Mohammed was a nutcase / liar / whacked out of his gourd / all of the above ... 
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All good and so on but I would have thought he had better things to do frankly.
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Why do you say that Rum? Personally, I am looking forward to reading it, it sounds fascinating.
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Sorry to resurrect (geddit 
) an old thread but I came across this wonderful excerpt from a talk Pullman made recently. He's not just a good writer is he?
) an old thread but I came across this wonderful excerpt from a talk Pullman made recently. He's not just a good writer is he?At least I'm housebroken.
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Huh. So he's actually assuming that this Jesus the Christ character actually existed 
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tattuchu wrote:Huh. So he's actually assuming that this Jesus the Christ character actually existed
Well I'm buying the book !
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tattuchu wrote:Huh. So he's actually assuming that this Jesus the Christ character actually existed
It's written as a historical novel.
From the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/se ... rel-christ"The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like a history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories."
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I'll prolly read it as well. I'm just sayin'Feck wrote:tattuchu wrote:Huh. So he's actually assuming that this Jesus the Christ character actually existed
Well I'm buying the book !
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Latest from Philip Pullman. I'm intrigued, but I'm wondering if he's entirely got hold of his marbles as well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/ma ... us-gospels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/ma ... us-gospels
Anyone buying it?In the bestselling His Dark Materials books, author Philip Pullman depicted the church as a corrupt and murderous bureaucracy and God as senile, frail and impotent. And, despite condemnation by the Christian right, Pullman has now taken on the Gospels directly. In his new story, he writes that Jesus had a manipulative twin brother, Christ, who tempted him in the wilderness and betrayed him to the authorities.
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Sounds worth a trip to the library. 
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I'm looking forward to it myself.
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That depends on whether he's pulling a Dan Brown. If he is, then he can fuck right off in to a hole.
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