He said that those who suggested that the show glamourised the devil had not really understood the series. “It’s not an irreligious show at all,” he said. “It’s actually very respectful of the structure of that sort of religious belief. The idea that it promotes satanism [is nonsense]. None of the characters from Hell are to be aspired to at all. They’re a dreadful bunch of non-entities.”
There’s a big explosion in evangelical Christianity that is very concerning to me. There’s a lot of new small churches springing up all the time. They work on a ‘planting’ basis, so each church will ‘seed’ and send out people to new places to set up churches of their own. They work like a pyramid scheme really.