Yes, I believe it is. Understand, I am a Christian, and in the end of the story, they kill God. That is not right. If an atheist answers they will say it is not. It depends on who answers.

No. Geez, lately any books people read, they somehow make them into a religious debate of sorts....

If you read the books, you will find out that it is written as an attack on Christianity.

i dont understand! then don't read them! is that not the simple solution? the bible is the biggest selling book of all time - i hardly think a trilogy is going to change that. if someone is going to be athiest over a book that is thier choice - you cannot force someone to be athiest or christian. i have read the books - please do not be so judgmental against someone for having a differant point of view. i think it is unfair of you to judge me for my point of view. not everone is the same. i have read the book - please do not be so arrogant as to presume to know me and what i have done. because you dont. if it discusts you that much - don't read it!! and leave those who enjoy the books to themselves instead of trying to spoil it for everyone else.

this statement was taken tuesday "Philip Pullman dismissed as "absolute rubbish" accusations by the US-based Catholic League that the film promotes atheism and denigrates Christianity. "I am a story teller," he said. "If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon." " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7115300.stm

No. It is, however, influenced by his bitterness towards Catholicism. But, in the end, they kill an insane Metatron. Poor Enoch, should've stayed a human, instead of becoming the Scribe, the lesser YHVH. ;-) Hafta explain a whole lot of metaphysics and Jewish, Christian, and Islamic background to explain the difference, and just who those characters are... of which Pullman is obviously in full knowledge. Anyway, at best, it is an attack on how rigid Catholicism can be, and the crimes of the last couple of thousand years. Most of that, well. I'm Baptist, and I've said worse. To put it shortly for the story: imagine being a particular person, who is an all-star player in a war in Heaven (Enoch, a person, becomes Metatron... an archangel who is something like the Creator's personal assistant). Then, spend a time, trying to be the bueracrat of heaven (the only one)... a heaven of infinite universes. It would not take much, before one goes insane, and trys to fix things, by limiting them. If one is known as the Voice of God (the one they kill is the same archangel as the one in Dogma, that organizes the heros in that movie), it would be easy to pretend to be the Creator, and move in on an unsuspecting universe. Then, of course, one is already going down the road of facism and control... ...if anything, the heros of the story serve both mankind and the Creator by dealing with the affair, and opening up the human condition there to allow everyone to think freely.

Why on earth is it important?