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Basically, yes. It pretty much out and out states that "Religion is stupid, God doesn't matter, can we get on with our lives please?" In the third book, one of the characters says, and I quote, "Christianity is a very convincing mistake, thats all." The religious view of the book ranges from the subtle, to the bludgeoningly obvious, like the above.
It also has guns, helicopters, Zeppelins, thinking with portals, and a vehicle that responds to brainwaves and shoots energy beams. It has that mashed up along with the usual talking animals and magic. All-in-all I'd vote for the His Dark Materials multiverse over the Narnia world any day.