J.K. Rowling: it is possible "to live a very moral life without a belief in God," and it's possible "to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God"
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:04 PM EST
Rowling's religious agenda is very clear: she does not have one. "I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. I wasn't trying to do what C.S. Lewis did. It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God." And now she climbs into a pulpit of her own, and you can tell how much this all matters to her, if it weren't already clear from her 4,100-page treatise on tolerance. "I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form," she says. "And that includes in my own religion."