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I came across some more overblown rhetoric on Harry Potter and thought I would share: Here is a site that reveals the true danger of HP! A big clue that you are about to go off the deep end = this quote “The New World Order is coming! Are you ready? Once you understand what this New World Order really is, and how it is being gradually implemented, you will be able to see it progressing in your daily news!!” I am surprised George Bush and the trilateral commission aren’t involved! Here is another. Do these parents really fear anything not explicitly Christian? I am really taken back by the overblown seriousness of the accusations that Harry Potter is leading kids down the road to satanism and witchcraft. This reminds me of the Satanism and Rock music craze, popular among evangelical Christians when I was younger. Remember subliminal messages – its back with Harry Potter. Here is another. This quote typifies the sort of anti-intellectualism that Christians can easily fall into: “The Bible is clear that in the last days witchcraft and sorcery will be widespread. In fact, it even reveals that many Christians will be caught up in it! These Harry Potter books are right on time in the end time scenario. We all know it. We all expect it. But it is so sad to watch. It is hard to watch so many young children embracing blatant witchcraft. There was a time when children’s fiction stories contained dragons and witches; yet they were always evil. Then things began to change: 20th century fiction and fantasy began to divide witchcraft into the “good magic” and “bad magic”. Even magnificently talented writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) and C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) helped to plant the foundation for sorceries revival in our day. As wise as they were in so many things, they were often very naive in regard to evil and Satan’s whole agenda. Tolkien did write about evil goblins; yet he would make the wizard to be a good guy. C.S. Lewis followed this practice by pretending that there is good and bad magic, and that God Himself used the “good” kind. He would make “magicians” (i.e. sorcerers) to be the good guys. For these reasons, these most wonderful books, filled with deep, Christian insights, deserve to be thrown into the trash can. What a waste. No parent should allow a child to read such books.”
People – get a grip. Use common sense, a little good judgement, and communicate with your kids! Harry Potter will not lead your kids to the devil. Any parent who deprives their children of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis is rejecting intelligence and imagination not satanism and witchcraft. My very strict parents bought me my first copies of both The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings. No wonder so many see Christians as naive anti-intellectuals – what a waste indeed.
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errrmmmmm………i think i agree with what you’re saying, its a little difficult to follow. If what you are saying is that parents shouldn’t depreive their children of such book because the bible says they are evil then I agree. If you are saying that books like Lord of the Rings are evil, then i disagree. lol i think i’d better read this again………..
harry potter has awesome morals. It teaches courage to do the right thing even if it is not always easy. it teaches loyalty. Harry Potter’s mum loved him so much that the most evil person in the world could not kill him when he had killed a lot of other great people. harry potter also teaches you to believe in yourself like in book 3. he believed that he could conjure the patronous.