I received an email suggesting I join a boycott of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy because of their atheistic content, but I’m not so keen. For starters I’m not really a fan of censorship, and also I’ve already read the books. This is ahead of the The Golden Compass movie release this Christmas, which the email quotes someone as describing as “atheism for kids”. According to the email: Pullman’s main objective is to bash Christianity and promote atheism. Pullman left little doubt about his intentions when he said in a 2003 interview that “my books are about killing God”. He has even stated that he wants to “kill God in the minds of children”. It has been said of Pullman that he is “the writer the atheists would be praying for, if atheists prayed.” “So what?” I say. I quite enjoyed the books—I read all three and stayed very entertained until the end, but the story is ultimately pretty unsatisfying and empty. The two heroic characters—Lord Asriel and Mrs Coulter (N