However two good sites to read intelligent writers about the discussion are Hollywood Jesus and IgnatiusPressInsight.
Their consensus: Pullman's "church" is a caricature of Christianity that few Christians could take seriously, but the stories have much positive in them.
Whether they are for children is another problem. Fantasy is powerful, and can imbue ideas in the vulnerable, not only children.
However, like Nietzsche, the idea behind the trilogy is the wish for God to be dead so that humans can have the power to do good.
Ironically, this weeks' encyclical on Hope essentially notices the same thing: That many became athiests because they saw terrible injustices in the world rejected traditional religion to try to spread freedom to the powerless and make utopia, but the end result was the exact opposite.
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