Tom Smykowski: It's a "Jump to Conclusions mat". You see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
Michael: That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.
Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this idea.
Posted on 11/26/2001 10:24:29 AM PST by Aquinasfan
Now that so many parents and children are on the Potter train, does anyone wonder where it's going?
After all, it is a book about children attending a school for witches and wizards. In book four we see a character mutilating himself, cutting off his arm, in order to render a spell efficacious. And the author has promised that the final three books will become increasingly darker.
I can't believe people would want to read these demonic books! It's all about recruiting children to the occult and making them humanists! I decided to read a bit of one of the books and after a few pages I began to hear a strange and horrible voice. I cried out to God in fear but the voice kept on talking. It was then that I realized the voice belonged to Rita Cosby. She was still at FNC. Those books should be burned *¿-
In book 6, Dumbledore is killed - the most powerful wizard ever is killed by evil- one of the lessons of Harry Potter is being a powerful wizard will not, in the end, avail against evil - it takes love to defeat evil.
I agree with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church who refused to support a suit against Harry Potter saying that all countries have fairy tales and that Harry is simply a modern fairy tale with a good message.
Those activities aren't a symbolic attempt to deny others access to information.
http://www.corlucis.org/lon_duquette.html
Lon Milo DuQuette Interview
January 25th, 2005
By Devin Galaudet
"With the unbelievable popularity with Harry Potter, how might this help or hurt the magical community?"
"I can't see it doing anything but help magick. First of all, it presents magick in a positive light and I have to hand it to Rowling's she captures an almost Thelemic neutrality between good and evil. It is Harry's will that remains pure. Harry can lie. Sometimes Harry can deceive good and bad influences. It is a wonderful focus. The focus is on his Will. It is very interesting and I think Harry Potter fans of today will be real magicians of tomorrow. Not just the play-acting, there are web-clubs and things you can join and be taught the rudiments of Wicca and things like that, something relatively harmless but probably not a major factor in creating serious magicians. If it weren't for Edgar Allen Poe, who I read as a youngster, I probably wouldn't be posed for this kind of stuff either. Does that mean Poe created a generation of magicians? No, but it probably helped. This is very overt. It creates a magickal world and although simultaneously real magick is much, much duller and less colorful and at the same time much more frightening and sometimes more colorful than Harry Potter. I think it is a wholesome introduction and if nothing else it drives the old aeon, especially evangelical types, it just drives them crazy and well it should, from their point of view."
The book burning Acquinas taked about was not a government or hate group CO-ERCED book burning, but rather a spontaneous voluntary one by new Christians who, after seeing what happened to the seven sons of Sceva, realized they were dabbling in occultic powers beyond their control. Here, no one forced them to burn those books except the Holy Spirt which enlightened their consciences.
Politically co-erced book burning is another issue, one in which you and I would I think find our-selves on the same page.
Let's not be so "black and white" with such statements such as "book burning is still book burning"!
Wow, a reply to something I wrote in 2001!!!
I have never read a word out of the Potter books nor have I seen even a sceen out of the movie. I would never let my kids watch such filth. It is a shame that parents allow this witch stuff in their house especially conservatives. Scary!!!! Next well have books on Scientology and all the conservatives will flock...that last part is a sarc, but not the whole post.
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