Is Matter Evil? Philip Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy - Professor Alister McGrath

[@Ten4g00dbuddy]

I really enjoyed this lecture. I hear these ideas kicked around and have never been satisfied with the framework used to combine the ideas into a workable framework. This was the most tangible framework I have come across. While the ideas are old, it feels like a new way to think. Thank you!

[@danilkopaskudnik3002]

buttkiss..

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

I think when Pullman writes he is aware of the borders between fiction and reality. He wrote the trilogy as a response to CS Lewis's brilliant children's fiction actually being a tool to indoctrinate children into Christianity. His books are mean to incourage children in the persuit of truth, beauty, and critical thinking. In fact, Lyra's great skill is bullshitting her way out of any situation, hence the power of the story and the art of disobedience. They're just stories, not meant as comments on the hidden divine... They're the antithesis of religion.

[@lanceburch6830]

Thank you for telling all of us what we already know about Pullman and his reason for writing. I wonder, did you have any thoughts on this video?

[@tomoliver2112]

When you write an entire novel series around people with souls that exist outside their body you probably have some affinity with the concept of a soul and the metaphysical, in whatever form that may be. So the books aren’t the antithesis of religion. Also Pullman has stated that he is not against religion but organised religion.

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

@@lanceburch6830 Wow, what a catty comment. 'what we all already know' is something neither you and I can actually say with any certainty is it? I cant remember what was in the lecture I watched two years ago, my original comment seems to address the content of the video...

[@lanceburch6830]

@@SamHarrisonMusic Catty? Crud... I was going for snarky. :) Seriously, I have no idea why I wrote that comment in that way and I humbly apologize for the unnecessary cattiness.

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

@@lanceburch6830 No worries man, I wasn't offended :) We all do it sometimes!

[@mieliav]

is Tallis saying that other animals ARE just pieces of matter? so much evidence to the contrary.

[@necksugar]

We ARE BOTH material and Transcending of the material. The more the world falls, the less it has to offer us.

[@jasonmuniz8802]

If the soul has weight doesn't that mean it is also just made of matter? Maybe a different kind of matter?

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

"the body is a prison for the soul", I guess he's a glass half empty kind of dude.Surely the proper way to look at it would be that the body is a tool for the expression of the soul.

[@thunderpooch]

All life has to "prosper" by destroying other life or depriving other creatures from thriving. Of course matter is evil. It's an exploitation racket. Once you see, you are ready to renounce life. Only those that are intoxicated by their advantages defend such a system.

[@ProjectMoff]

The body is a flower pot

[@ProjectMoff]

@@thunderpooch You can reduce evil down to be just extreme ignorance, ignorance of it's oneness as all harm is self harm, I don't beleive in evil as its a poor term that throws out the need to understand it, but you can understand it, like I just said it is simply extreme ignorance. So no, material exsistence is not evil, its just a being that is not aware of itself, I don't like it, but to just simply condem it as evil does nothing, is it not better to understand it as more of a sickness and try to find a cure?

[@occamsox5331]

You’re not paying attention.

[@synesthete23]

We have an eternal soul and a temporal body. That is the misfit. The Christian view is that the eternal soul belongs to an eternal or heavenly body, which those who belong to Christ will inherit. 1 Corinthians 15:52

[@teamcrumb]

"there are no fewer things in the mind that exceed our consciousness than there are things in the body that exceed our knowledge." Deleuze

[@danilkopaskudnik3002]

my נפֿש iz eeveel ... totally

[@mieliav]

get help, בנאדם.

[@rahowherox1177]

yes. for after all arent mankind made of matter?

[@jamesbarrington4729]

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