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Potter Mania: Should Christian Kids Read 'Harry Potter'?
Breakpoint with Chuck Colson ^
| 7/20/2007
| Chuck Colson
Posted on 07/23/2007 7:04:00 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
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To: NotSoFreeStater
My wife and son are taking turns reading it. I cheated and read the last chapter and epilogue. I wont give it away. That's good. You see, you'd have to kill anyone you told, and it's very hard to dispose of a body...um, that's what I hear anyway.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:41:15 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Backing Tribe al-Ameriki even if the Congress won't.)
To: rlmorel
Agreed. Personally, if your kid cannot tell the difference between a fictional story they read in a book, or a video game that has shooting in it and real life, then you are failing as a parent.
I just think this anti-Harry Potter thing is just silly. I have not read any of them, but I saw the movie, and...I enjoyed it. No reason a kid cannot do the same.
It needed to be said again.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:41:24 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
(Texas is no place for pansy-ass liberals. Ya'll move back to California er Mexico er somethin')
To: oneamericanvoice
You are absolutely correct. These books were written for entertainment and for the things you mentioned. Give the kids a break, let them be kids for a while. I doubt any of them will turn out as wizards, witches, etc. They will turn out as adults with an imagination that a happy childhood brings. I do remeber the towels and masks that we used to be Superman or Batman. I also remember the silver with pearl colored plastic gripped guns we used to play Gene Autry or Roy Rogers while we chased the bad guys. What kind of life we give our kids when we deny them these experiences.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:41:41 PM PDT
by
TDA2
To: Barnacle
And why not? No nudity, no sex, no human sacrifice. Lots of friendship, loyalty, defeat of evil....yet not good enough for kids?
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:42:07 PM PDT
by
oneamericanvoice
(Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
To: Mr. Silverback
But the big question many parents have is: Should their kids be reading novels about wizards and witches and magic?Why ever not? What better way to glean the good lessons of good vs evil from the books, while assuring the kids that no, there is no such thing as magic? If you limit your kids to reading only what supports your and their worldview, how are they ever going to learn the tools to defend their beliefs when they leave home and go out into the big wide world?
The magic in the books is just a vehicle for the moral of the story, that good will win out over evil, and sometimes, folks have to pay a heavy price in order to do that which is good.
I read the last one before the kids got to it. ;o) I've really enjoyed the series, and it's fun to talk about the characters as though they are folks we know, and about the trials and triumphs. They are like any other fiction series in that regard; you come to 'know' the characters very well.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:42:26 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: ColdSteelTalon
I dont think any kids should be reading them.I don't think anyone should be reading them.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:43:32 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: Shadowstrike
"I think it's the same with Harry Potter. Advertising has made it a phenomena, but parents can make their children understand that it's only a story." The point being...what? Parents can also make their children understand that the Bible is just a story.
To: Shadowstrike
I read the book backwards and it taught me how to break spells ;'}
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:45:12 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
To: Mr. Silverback
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:46:30 PM PDT
by
RFC_Gal
(It's not just a boulder; It's a rock! A ro-o-ock. The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!)
To: ColdSteelTalon; Revolting cat!
>>>>
I dont think any kids should be reading them.>>>I don't think anyone should be reading them.
I didn't like Them either.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:46:57 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:47:11 PM PDT
by
RFC_Gal
(It's not just a boulder; It's a rock! A ro-o-ock. The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!)
To: Logan1492
The point being...what? Parents can also make their children understand that the Bible is just a story. The point of this thread was --
Potter Mania: Should Christian Kids Read 'Harry Potter?'I'm going to make a big assumption here, but Christians aren't going to teach their kids that the Bible is just a story.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:48:00 PM PDT
by
Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
To: mountn man; americanophile
Please understand that I would almost certainly write these same words even if I agreed that Harry Potter is bad for kids.
So you'd have no problem then with your child reading Mein Kampf or The Communist Manifesto? How about Playboy or Penthouse? How about any books by Aleister Crowley? How about Manson In His Own Words?
Parents have a responsibility called discernment.
And you've shown you have none by comparing a children's novel to the most evil crud ever put on paper.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:48:06 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Backing Tribe al-Ameriki even if the Congress won't.)
To: Mr. Silverback
If you believe in God and the Other, yes. Read it.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:48:22 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: Mr. Silverback
Well, Colson seems to think it's sorta OK to read them with qualifications. Whoever said that reading a Harry Potter book constitutes subscribing to a new religion and world-view? They're just stories.
I have never read them and likely never will, but not for "moral" reasons. I've seen all the films, and frankly, I do not find HP and his world all that interesting. But that's just me. I read A LOT, and cannot make time for Potter.
To: Shadowstrike
As Christian children, we weren't told we couldn't go see Dracula, or the Wolf Man, or Frankenstein. We were told that these things were not real, that they were 'legends' or stories made up by people. I think it's the same with Harry Potter. Advertising has made it a phenomena, but parents can make their children understand that it's only a story. The big difference I see between those stories and the Potter stories is that the others show the weird stuff as weird. Where as the Potter stories shows the weird stuff (the occult) as something that can be accessed to one's advantage.
Thus, whereas only the very weird child would aspire to create a Frankenstein or be a Wolf-man. The Potter books present the occult in a palatable sense, with heroic possibilities and broad appeal.
The occult is real, and it's real dangerous.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:50:07 PM PDT
by
Barnacle
(The Emperor has no clothes.)
To: oneamericanvoice
The existence of a soul is quite explicit in these books.
Heaven is very heavily hinted at (the Kings Cross station scene). God gets a capital ‘G’. The books a deist, but not Christian,
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:50:16 PM PDT
by
conejo99
To: Mr. Silverback
Muslim kids should read these books and watch the Movies
TT
To: Barnacle; ColdSteelTalon
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:51:06 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Backing Tribe al-Ameriki even if the Congress won't.)
To: Mr. Silverback
The most interesting thing was... in the latest Potter book, Rowling wrote the best Passion-scene I’ve read in many years.
I think she “came out” in this book and showed her true allegiances, and I like ‘em.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:51:40 PM PDT
by
JenB
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