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That's too rosy a picture. The Eastern Orthodox Church is a millennia-old institution, and when the Curtain came down, the local denizens of faith were vehemently set against any sort of foreign evangelicals. There was a conflict there about the True God, and it still rages on. Even dancing dervishes are considered some sort of "cult" by the Moscow Patriarchate (am not sure about Ukraine's Filaret & Co., or anyone else, I think they're a little less hardcore though).
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Both pictures are correct. Your picture is depressing, mine is rosy- combine and we have the actuality. That wasn't really the point though. I was using an anology, not a history lesson.
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So maybe Pullman isn't interested in proving anything, maybe he just watches religious folk struggle against each other and laughing into his fist.
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Given his reaction to Lewis and Tolkien, and his attempt at attacking the Church in his novels, not to mention pushing his ideas of how things should be, I somehow doubt this is the case.