In the children’s books written to counter C.S. Lewis’ Narnia books, author Philip Pullman portrays Christianity in particular and religion in general as the great enemy of Reason. Pullman has one character say at a moment of pseudo-Gnostic revelation near the climax of one of the books: “There are two great powers … and they’ve been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn …