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To: xsmommy; hobbes1; Slip18

Remember though, we have free will and it is impossible to seduce someone without their permission. Not that I meant to get into this tussle...


90 posted on 07/19/2005 7:13:05 AM PDT by secret garden (There's no place like home!)
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To: secret garden
of course we have free will. but here the target audience, and the protected class, from the Pope's perspective, is children, who are at the stage when character and morality is being formed. i also see this as a point of distinction. i see HP as more widely read by younger children than Tolkein, so i don't think you can treat them equally.

no one is worried about adults being seduced into evil by HP, the question is, does it interfere with the process of character and morality formation in children, by blurring the distinctions between good and evil.

92 posted on 07/19/2005 7:16:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden
Good versus evil is always a tussle, SG. Then there are the grey areas.

A++++ for you!

104 posted on 07/19/2005 7:26:35 AM PDT by Slip18
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