Posted on 03/17/2008 7:44:22 AM PDT by Terriergal
Links to articles about when and where this was done, please? (Don't bother me with articles about parents wanting them banned from the public school library. They have the right to call for a ban in a library that their own kids have access to.)
I read the headline: “Potter Author JK Rowling Equates Christians Who Avoid Potter with Islamic Fundamentalists”.
If Rowling said that, she is a pinhead.
That explains the fatwa against her and why she’s gone into hiding.
Sorry, I get “URL Not Found”. Got a better link?
I’m anti Potter for impressionable children. Remember what the Jesuits said-—
Ignatius Loyola said 400 years ago, “Give me the child until the age of seven, and I will give you the man.”
Nor would I dream of forcing you to.
OTOH, I've made a point of reading every book and seeing every movie with my kids. (My Darling Daughter was 'into' Harry Potter before it was popular, and somewhat resents the popularity).
In some ways, the HP seires is, I suppose, a religious work, but mostly it is a fantasy war story. It is WWII, the WOT, a story of PEOPLE fighting evil with everything they've got.
The various magical plot devices are little different from the ordinance expended in a muggle conflict, they can be used by either side, for good or evil.
Like a shootin' war, it is played against a background of people who are oblivious, don't get it, or are keeping their heads down.
Like WWII, the good side ultimately wins, but the cost is very high. Like the WOT the cost of losing is unthinkable.
It has a certain moral clarity that any of the other current Hollywood products lack.
ya THINK!?!?!
I was annoyed with Dumbledore being gay... I’d never thought of him in a sexual context. He was just a mysterious powerful wizard, a force for good and a wonderful headmaster.
In the later books she made him a little more complicated and looking back, I think she intended that his brief bout of madness as a youth was connected to a passion he felt for another male, which led to lifelong regret.
I think he became asexual after that, at least in practice.
I'd rather my child learn to read...in such a way my child would at least be able to read Scripture and decide for him or herself about religion. Besides God, if He truly is all powerful, does not IMO need puny humans to defend either Him or His word!
Yup. My children were so upset at that totally unnecessary and unfounded announcement, they have declared they will not read any future Rowling books, although they love HP.
Better yet, I'll provide you with the name of a couple of Christian churches you may enjoy attending. First, you might try the Westboro Baptist Church where you can learn that "God hates fags" etc. Maybe you could join them in picketing dead American Soldier's funerals.
If that's not your cup of tea, there's always the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama says it's really a great loving Christian environment.
That painting is reminiscent of the style of “The Painter of Light”, Thomas Kinkade, who is a Christian. I wonder if it’s intentional.
You think Mother Goose is scary!? Well, she is, and the Grimm fairy tales are beyond Grimm. They don’t tiptoe around evil and are not sugar coated. Disney has to do some serious cutting to make fairy tales into movies.
Marion Chesney is one of my favorites. I don’t remember what authors I’ve checked out right now. There haven’t been many at the library lately, but last week I found two.
Yes. I was responding to the article. FR lacks a simple way to make that clear.
Once upon a time I registered "the Author of the Article" as a screen name for just this purpose. The Mod Squad promptly nuked the account.
*sigh*
They probably sensed that you were upset.
I don’t think children have any particular feelings about gays ... I didn’t know what a homosexual was until I was 35.
Oh so she thinks that's weird, but she doesn't find it kooky that she proclaimed that one of her fake characters is gay?
So you admit that you read the headline and NOT what Rowling said. The "pinwheel" would be the headline writer. What Rowling said was in the body of the article so there's no reason to suppose "if" she said anything.
Sally Martin is exceptional, but she only wrote four.
Numbered Kisses is my favorite.
Good ..... THanks!
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