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Deut 18:9 9 When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and abecause of these detestable things the Lord your God will drive them out before you. 13 aYou shall be blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so. 2 Timothy 4:3 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and awill turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. harry potter's parallels w the occult: http://crossroad.to/ask-peter/hp-overview-1.htm

Indeed, I did, read it a second time just now. Long, drawn out drama inspired missive to show his intellectual superiority of an issue that of course everyone else happened to miss. And indeed, if this series of books was read in the total and absolute absence of anything else, his near novella would be indeed absolutely true.

Unfortunately, I happen to be one of those grossly misinformed parents that doesn’t let an educational opportunity pass, and instead of trying to ostracize the messenger, use it to craft the type of intellectual thought that such authors as Mr. O’Brien absolutely abhor; those who can actually ask rational questions of their children, and elicit rational responses.

My child does not believe she can take a stick, wave it around, and cause magic to happen. My child has stated, time and time again, many things she would do different were she the protagonist in the story, especially that silly mushy stuff.

And she’s absolutely mystified by such attacks - it’s like making an in depth critique of the Flinstones, pointing out the obvious that there weren’t any dinosaurs when people were about.

I add salt to my meals; salt alone would be bad, even deadly in horribly large quantities. There is any manner of research to tell me all about how bad salt is. Problem is, salt makes a lot of food taste better, and is a needed mineral in the operation of my body.