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The fundamentalist mind is evidently incapable of holding anything more complicated than an either-or concept.

Once you come to the acceptance of the fact that there is no 'grey area' where one may comfortably reside without making a moral stand one way or the other, you will realize that life IS an "either-or" concept.

Jesus said: "You are either for me, or against me. Let your yes be yes, and your no be no"

And Junior, it doesn't get any more "either-or" than that.

Your argument is not with me, it is with Almighty God.

Good Luck.

You seem to have a strong interest in Harry Potter and Christianity. You may be interested in what Christian defenders of the Potter books are saying.

John Granger is perhaps the most prominent Christian Rowling apologist:
http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/harry_potter_granger.htm

Rowling was classically educated in medieval (Christian) literature, and her books use many of the same devices and symbols to point toward God. Granger makes a case for this in his book "Looking for God in Harry Potter":
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=1414300913&itm=1

Here's an extract:
http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/16.9docs/16-9pg34.html

Here's Granger's website, where many more resources can be found on the subject:
http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/home.php

When Wizards of the Coast (publishers of "Dungeons and Dragons" approached Rowling about making a roleplaying game based on her novels, she turned them down upon learning that they wanted to use the D&D rules for the game's foundations, because that might lead kids into the occult. I know people who were at that meeting, and she really did turn them down flat on those grounds.