In article <4866909a$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> >   It felt like you could perhaps enjoy the movie more if you had read t
he
> > book (although I wouldn't bet on that, as we all know about movie adapt
ations
> > of books), but without knowing anything at all about the story it was a
 bit
> > confusing and boring.
> 
> It was fairly confusing an boring as a book, too. It was, however, a 
> fairly good adaptation, methinks.
> 
> I read all three books, out of curiousity and boredom. I'd say it was an
 
> attempt at an epic story whose intention was to teach you that epic 
> stories aren't important.  So it kind of got wrapped around its own axle.
> 
> It's a book about how not to believe in religion, full of evil people 
> who see the light, magic vague conciousnesses talking to prophesied 
> children, beings made from pure thought, inexplicable evil leaking into
 
> the world when science goes awry, and heaven forbid don't believe in 
> religion.
> 

Umm. Its a "series" about not believing in organized religion. Some of 
the later bits did annoy me a lot, since it simply replaced one type of 
mysticism with another, but the central premise was, in fact, "Don't 
follow dogma from people who desperately want to control things they 
can't comprehend at all, imagine are dangerous when they are the exact 
opposite and who know absolutely nothing about what they claim to be 
telling you about." The is the magesterium. A group of people convinced 
that, in this case, the one single force in the universe that "derives" 
life is actually the thing creating corruption and chaos, and 
simultaneously desperate to destory it, even as they are scared to death 
that someone will figure out where it actually comes from and actually 
bring "more" of it, instead of helping them destroy it.

It wasn't evil leaking into the world, it was "life" leaking out. They 
would literally destroying creation itself by trying to "get rid of" the 
perceived evil of sin, i.e., dust, which made people think for 
themselves and act on adult ideas, instead of happily obeying the 
authorities. The mess with the angels and stuff got a bit confusing, 
but, in essense, it put god in the position of being a being so 
disconnected from the world and so fragile from being disconnected, that 
he literally "blew away" and dissolved back into the dust, the moment 
someone opened the gilded cage his power hungry second in command made 
for him. His second was so power mad that he spread the ideas the 
Magesterium taught, because it made him more powerful, while, like the 
morons following him, he had no clue it was destroying *everything* in 
the process.

I think you have misread some of it quite a bit, not the least getting 
what "dust" really was wrong. It wasn't evil spilling into the world, it 
was renewal. The Magesterium simply couldn't abide those that refused to 
"obey", therefor, anything the discouraged people obeying had to, in 
their view, be "evil". Much like you see in the definitions of the same 
among the nuts of real religions.

I wouldn't even call it anti-religious, save in the sense that its main 
message was, "Don't limit yourself to the silly BS some church come up 
with. They don't have a clue, just dogma, and they might be completely 
wrong about *everything*."

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