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Dan'l wrote (quoting me):
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She's still being given something to
think about, which was my original argument.
Well, no, it wasn't.
Well, yes, it was.
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You actually wrote,
I would hope that a child reading Pullman's book might be
very interested to learn that a word used by Christianity
to mean an incarnation of evil originally meant something
as harmless as "spirit", and might wonder what other little
misappropriations and mistakes may have taken place over
the years.
Yes, and -before- that, I wrote that I didn't agree that Pullman was using the word 'daemon' solely to irritate, and that:
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell probably irritated a few
easily-irritated Christians in its time too, but what it was supposed to do was make people think
That was my point. Provocative words being used to promote the process of independent thought. I could have left it at that, but I chose to illustrate my point with an example of how that might happen.