Once upon a time, the bestselling author Philip Pullman used to entertain his son by recounting tales from the Odyssey each night. Time passed, and by the end of the story the boy was so galvanised that he bit a chunk out of the glass he was sipping.
A few more folk are spitting glass at the unholy prospect of His Dark Materials, the epic trilogy in which Pullman kills off God, being showcased at the National Theatre as a Christmas family show.
After all, the fantastical stories have been condemned by The Catholic Herald as
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