Okay! Well, I finished reading, "The Golden Compass", "The Subtley Knife" and "The Amber Spy Glass". "Jesus, what did you find out?", you ask. Well, I realized a lot about good Phil. For one, all Christians and Catholics have the book wrong (Now remember, I'm a non-practicing Roman Catholic so I'm allowed to speak of them in the second or third person). I think the reason they hated the book is because it's anti-institutionalized religion. The book isn't after God, as the debate said it was. It's more about being after the coruption of faith(The conception of fear and hate as God).

There are a couple of things that are revealed in the final book. There is a creator, but he's not the one who took control. Remember, we as humans have free will and it's up to us to find ourselves in God through love. Or, so I've heard. Anyway, the first angel who was concieved took power and submitted those that followed him to his will. Everything was already created before the first angel (The Authority). Anyway, as this angel grew older, he handed the reins over to another angel (The Regent). Now remember what I said before: The Creator has created already, way before these two came into the picture.

The Amber Spy Glass
So, there's a fight going on between those that would prefer to fear and hate, and those that would rather have the opposite of fear and hate (for those that do not know the opposite of fear and hate, it's safety and love). It brings me to the point of the book: God equals love. Love was the creator, Fear was the Authority. Where you believe that God was the target, he was actually the hostage, being held at bay by fear and hate. It took two adolescents to figure this out. Their love for each other, Lyra's love for her soul (aka Pan) and her friends and Will's love for his mother (Which broke what was unbreakable in The Subtle Knife).

So, what's more powerful: man's ability to hate or man's ability to love? And it's the quest to answer this question that makes life important. It's the knowledge that we aquire in the journey to understanding our place in the universe that we open ourselves to love.

I don't know, maybe that sounds stupid or something. Maybe I missread what it was trying to say. Hell, maybe the freaking book is all about "Down with God" and all that. All I know is that what I got out of the three books was that God was not the target as fascist organizations understood it to say.

"To fear something is to question your faith, for in your faith fear does not exist." JG Vergara
8/22/2008