Great Regulars: "It was a quote I gave to an Australian reporter.

I was winding him up. I'd be a complete idiot if I tried to undermine Christianity. It would mean undermining what I am as well," he [Philip Pullman] says.

But if the Catholic League had a problem with that film, its members are going to be incandescent about his new book. It is a novel or, perhaps, fable called The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: Philip Pullman's parable of 'the scoundrel Christ'

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