Having heard about it ages ago, I finally got around to checking out Snopes. This is a worthy website whose purpose is to debunk - or occasionally verify - the ludicrous rumours that get spread around the interweb, like looking at asylum seekers will cause your eyeballs to get infested with horrid parasites. That sort of thing. Next time someone FWs you some scurrilous rumour, go here and you will quickly discover if its fer real or just nasty minded crap.
Gast me flabbers, though, at what is number two on the list of current rumours. That's right, Philip Pullman's books have anti-religious themes, and they've been made into movies! In case you're rabidly clicking to find out what else it's all about, I'm afraid I must disappoint you. That's it. At the risk of sounding like a Spitfire pilot, or even a teenager, like, duh.
This is the second most shocking piece of info currently tearing its way from computer to computer in the most powerful nation on Earth. Fear for your children! Free thought alert! At some point I may return to this computer and pour forth some more bile about this, but QI's on in a tick and there might be some people there who can cope with the idea that it's all right to think that the universe and life happened in the way that the evidence suggests they did, rather than having to protect your kids from any actual information so that they can continue to swallow like gannets the absurd cosmology of a two and a half thousand year old desert sky god cult and another thing ...
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