Posted on 03/17/2008 7:44:22 AM PDT by Terriergal
“Christ never taught revenge or oppression. He never forced or coerced people to faith. His teachings are to love and forgive as He has loved and forgiven us.”
What about his Father...THE Father?
that bugged me too...
Four more posts.
Oh, get a grip. You obviously haven’t even read the material.
The EVIL wizards tormented everyone, including muggles.
The good wizards fought to protect everyone, including muggles.
They have an entire division dedicated to protecting muggles.
Many of the wizards have muggle parents, who are shown nothing but love and respect.
I suspect you failed to see the sarcasm.
I’m a Christian and I despise Harry Potter, not so much because I believe it’s evil as I believe it’s boring spoon-fed media-hyped garbage.
That said, I like Pope Benedict more and more every day, and I’m not even Catholic!
What are you saying, that no piece of art, no piece of literature, no creation of man, is worthwhile unless it invokes the gospel? By that standard, the latest piece of kitsch by Thomas Kinkade is fine art because he paints a Christian fish in the corner, but a Monet is garbage because he didn't.
Does that extend into scientific and technical fields as well? You have one set of plans for a bridge that follows proper practices and principles of engineering, and one that may not, but hey, the designer included quotes from scripture in the CAD drawings! Which bridge are you going to drive over?
But is the Bible the whole Word of God? It's a large text, but not THAT large. The Bible is a compilation. And that compilation was done by man (instigated by Constantine).
The History Channel actually had a fairly good program entitled: "Banned Books of the Bible". They were not necessarily banned because they contradicted the canon (some were), but there was no way to weave them into the narrative that is the Bible without compromising the flow they wished to establish. Either because they [other books] focused too much on other players and not the primaries. Such as Mother Mary rather than Jesus. Went off on a tangent, or because they were written too late after the fact, were simply unknown at the time, or any number of other reasons.
Do you think maybe you can go about defending the damned books without resorting to dumb “harry potter-speak”?
Many of us don’t know what a “muggle” is and don’t much care either.
I wasn’t responding to you.
The person I WAS responding to thinks she knows what a muggle is.
Jesus did not comment on the subject to my knowledge. Jesus preached compassions and forgiveness. If I understand your implications correctly, I believe you may be assigning the statements of of some Christians to Jesus, but Jesus himself did not condemn people for sins.
Lets put it this way-— I have a low opinion of the Potter movies and books. If your child is exposed to them then a very strong counter balance of conventional religious education is needed. This looks like your situation
But for too many children they get the Potter but no Moses or Jesus and no bible stories for children
If that is so, then I don't see how Jews avoid damnation. For that matter, the vast majority of everyone who has ever lived and died is doomed to Hell.
Can you reconcile that with the idea of a loving, merciful deity?
Dismaying trash
Instead of having imaginations stimulated by warlocks witches and wizards, children should have imaginations stimulated by bible stories for children. Bible is old and reliable guide to proper behavior
Yet Rowlings and others want to compete with that....and they fail and confuse young minds but get stupid rich in the process. I'm sure the pagans that govern the EU are very pleased with this
What do you think of the wizardry portrayed in Lord of the Rings, or in Narnia?
Not as bad due to Christian author. Christian themes buried in Tolkien tales
There is a fierce competition for children's minds these days. In the past Christianity had the upper hand as far as what tales and narratives children got inculcated with. These days it is pushed aside by aggressive hucksters such as Disney and Rowlings
Plus these days we have movies which is a much more powerful indoctrination medium than ye old Sunday school where the children get read bible stories and read bible stories and learn .... Not nearly so high impact as a stupid Potter movie with shape shifting wizards goblins etc etc
If an author claims to be a Christian, and many, if not most readers see a Christian theme in a story, what qualifies you to claim otherwise.
I am particularly interested in how you interpret the ending of Harry Potter as unChristian or anti-Christian. What specifically about going willingly to one’s death in order to save one’s friends and defeat evil is unChristian or anti-Christian?
You haven’t read any of the books, have you?
People find Christian themes in Potter books and movies? My own take is Rowlings is a loose cannon and writes what she will write. No deep references to anything. She is over interpreted and people see stuff that she never intended
I am particularly interested in how you interpret the ending of Harry Potter as unChristian or anti-Christian. What specifically about going willingly to one’s death in order to save one’s friends and defeat evil is unChristian or anti-Christian?
Harry Potter cannot end too soon. I can find more Christian themes in Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland and Barbar the elephant
If there are Christians issuing death threats to her, then those “Christians” are like Islamic Fundamentalists and her comparison is perfectly valid. She’s not comparing ALL Christians to Islamists, that’s silly. She’s Christian herself.
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