Original sentence: Mary Malone says that "the Christian religion […] is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.Some criticism stems from the fact that almost all of the Christian characters in the series are portrayed as bad at some point in the story
Edited sentence: " As for God, a rebellious angel later tells the children, "God, the Creator, the Lord, Yahweh, El, Adonai, the King, the Father, the Almighty ... was never the creator." Every Christian character in the series is rotten to the core, and none of them bothers to pretend otherwise." In one of the last scenes of the trilogy, the children watch God die."Demented and powerless," Pullman writes, "the aged being could only weep and mumble in fear and pain and misery."For all its history," a benevolent witch tells Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, the young protagonists of the series, the Church "has tried to suppress and control every natural impulse."The Christian religion," one of Pullman's main characters blandly explains, "is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.... That's what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.He was an angel like ourselves ... [who] told those who came after him that he had created them, but it was a lie.Michael Nelson summarizes what he sees as Pullman's attacks in His Dark Materials against Christianity:.On the other hand, it has been noted that Pullman doesn’t bother to make such distinctions in the novels: almost all of the Christian characters are portrayed as bad at some point in the story