Posted on 07/19/2005 5:34:51 AM PDT by Slip18
IF you mean,
"It is good that you are throwing light on Harry Potter, because these are subtle seductions that work imperceptibly, and because of that deeply, and erode Christianity in the soul before it can even grow properly,"
Part of it. Generally, with things like that,I take it to be far more pertinent in the macro, I.E. in the general society, rather than at the individual level.
Is that a pistol in your pocket?
Oh, A++++ for you, Cook. I'm typing this with a cat's tail on my keyboard. Could I borrow your pistol? And do you want a cat's tail for your key chain?
Much, much, mutch, meutsch bedder. Thank you, kind sir.
However, that statement, as I pointed out, is not entirely accurate. It is roughly akin to saying that because Good Cowboys Kill Bad Cowboys, all Cowboy stories distort the sense of good and evil, when in fact good and evil is generally thier salient theme..
i have the same reaction to the Disney channel showing kids shows that glamorize and glorify the occult and witchcraft. Halloweentown for one, where a girl is from a family of witches etc. And there is one about a hockey team where the Devil is a player, i can't recall what the name of it is, but the kid playing the devil is Eric from Boy Meets World. All of these things serves to make witchcraft, occult stuff out to be mundane and harmless.
i recall vividly the sermon that our priest gave in church after the Exorcist was released, the concept has stuck with me for decades... that the devil's biggest coup is to have people NOT believe in him... That's what is going on today, they are de-mystifying the Devil, who is very present in today's society and culture. but they have made him HIP and HAPPENING and not at all threatening.
Couldn't put it down until I fell asleep with it on my lap. So it caused me the opposite of insomnia. Would that be somnia?
well the point there is why has she chosen WITCHES, universally thought to be evil and occult to MAKE into good guys. that itself is part of the problem. Cowboys connote nothing one way or the other as far as moral value goes.
She should have consulted with you so you could advise her the time to do that is when the officer apprehends you -- not when you're already in court.
I'm just messing up today, Mort. Please excuse my lapses in synapses.
But your rhyming's got good timing!
Mernin!
Thank you. I'm doing something right today. LOL!
Good morning, Laura! I misspelled the WFTD. It's spelled tussle.
She didnt. Much like Tolkein did, she created a world that doesnt exist (though not on the level he did), But the good guys, and the bad guys have the same arsenal.
I mean..Is it a little more compatable, if the Witches are bad, and the good comes from somewhere else, ala Lewis' White Witch, sure.....
But IMHO, to be procedding in this direction gives the Rowling books the heady scent of official disaproval, and by extension detracts from the message you want to send to those very people reading the books.
It would have been far more useflul to say, "They are Kids books..no more no less, and not a problem as long as youngsters are provided with sound moral instruction...'
Here is my $0.02 on the HP matter:
It is unfortunate that this huge popular phenomenon glamorizes "witchcraft" and appeals to children to explore the occult. I believe that it will expose many of them to dangerous consequences.
In addition, and perhaps even more subtly and deviously, the children in the story regularly disobey the rules -- or decide which rules they can disregard -- and are then regularly commended and rewarded for doing so. I think this sends a very dangerous message to children that it is ok for them to disobey their parents, teachers, laws, or whatever if they don't happen to agree with the rule/law. If the moral teaching from the story were that the bad children are the ones who disobey the rules and the consequences are usually unpleasant for disobedience, that would be one thing; but unfortunately the moral message is that disobedience is fun and good.
That's the problem. In my humble opinion the books undermine sound moral instruction (at best) and in some cases actually reinforce immoral lessons.
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