Phillip Pullman is a proud athiest who hates C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and has wrtten this trilogy to show the other side. The first is the least offensive of the three books and is the basis for the movie coming out in December. These books are an attempt to indoctrinate children into anti-Christian beliefs. The movie removes the offensive material from the first book so that the Christian community will blindly take their children to see it, and later let the children start reading the series. However, each book gets worse regarding Pullman's hatred of God. Knowing this, read the book is this interests you. I posted this to counter Pullman's deceptive tactics.