Occult Themes and Neutered Gods
Christianity Today has a new feature up on Graham Taylor, Anglican Priest and author of the books “Shadowmancer” and “Wormwood” which he wrote as a response to books like Harry Potter and the “His Dark Materials” series.
Graham not only takes a swipe at occult teen fiction he also takes issue with “Liberal” churches which he feels are “neutering” and “castrating” God!
Taylor worries about occult themes, and the absence of God, in books for children and young adults. Taylor was angered by His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman’s young-adult trilogy. Pullman, who has said he despises C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books, reworks Milton’s Paradise Lost so that Satan is a hero?and God is senile. (Taylor wrote Shadowmancer on a lark after publicly criticizing the occult themes in Harry Potter and Pullman’s works, saying they contribute to growing interest in the occult among U.K. teenagers.) Taylor believes even many Christians in the United Kingdom have a view of God more in line with Pullman. “A lot of the liberal churches have neutered, they have castrated, God. They’ve taken all the power away from God,” he says. In contrast, the New Testament shows a God who is “powerful and willing to get involved” in people’s lives.
Lucky for those “dark” forces within the liberal churches and fiction novels Taylor is retiring from the priesthood to focus on writing full-time.
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