[Terriergal]

Rowling taking cues from another popular author:

[G.Mason]

What’s a Potter?

[BenLurkin]

What does she care? She has made a fortune off her work — and no one has issued a fatwa.

[svcw]

How can I sell more books, oh yea, I’ll claim death threats from Christians.....
what a liar.

[Slump Tester]

A better headline and more on point would be " Christians Avoid Potter and Equate Author JK Rowling with Satanism"

[Williams]

Strikes me that some Christians and the Pope dare to take their religion as seriously as Rowling (and a lot of other people) takes the Harry Potter series.

This should be interesting, because I know JK is a bit of a "sacred" cow with many here. IMHO her liberal slip had been showing even before she announced Dumbledore's homosexuality in a concert hall full of children.

[TommyDale]

Yeah, when is the last time Christians called for beheading of an author?

[Hat-Trick]

Who is that guy?

[ConservaTexan]

Off with her head!

[TommyDale]

"Potter Author JK Rowling Equates Christians Who Avoid Potter with Islamic Fundamentalists"

Translated: Resistance from Christians is creating erosion of her sales and profits.

[EyeGuy]

I have issues with her deciding after the fact, to do the hip and inclusive thing and tab Dumbledore a queer.

[meandog]

JK is spot on in her criticism of fundamentalists. The Potter series are classic good versus evil scenarios and are indicative of one of the fantasy author (and well-noted Christian author) who most influenced her: C.S. Lewis!

[dennisw]

I’m anti Potter..... Children need better fantasies to get interested in. Such as what you can find at church and synagogue. Which also have truth and morals in the mix. So much interest in magical fantasies is not good for young ones

[ClearCase_guy]

"Hundreds of millions of people have read my books! The movies have been phenomenally popular around the world! How DARE you say you don't feel like reading them???? Youre -- you're as bad as those suicide bombers who blow up women and children and saw the heads off journalists! No! You're worse! Because you're not giving me the money I deserve!"

[cripplecreek]

I wouldn’t equate them with islamonazis but there are a few very vocal oversensitive Christians running loose. They aren’t all that hard to ignore.

[CarryingOn]

I don't think that “avoiding” is the correct word to use in this context. You avoid a pothole in the road because its in your way. I would say that some people might choose not to participate or seek out Potterism. Frankly, I have not read Potter because I choose not to. However, I didn't have to avoid it because it wasn't in my way. I think that perhaps the author might be “avoiding” learning more about Christianity and Islam. One misguided soul does not make a religion in any case.

[JenB]

Oh, good grief!

Look, I’m a fundamentalist Christian and I like the Potter books. I don’t see anything that Rowling says that is so unreasonable. Calling in death threats against an author is pretty similar to Islamic fundamentalism. Criticising a book without reading it is pretty stupid. She’s hardly calling all Christians bigots and I believe she’s a Christian herself - as anyone reading her seventh book would easily believe.

Also that thing about the Pope criticising the books was debunked way back whenever. This article is stupid.

[sauropod]

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[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

At the apologetics conference I attending this past weekend http://www.codebluerally.com/info.php a speaker commented about the dangers for naive people in Rowlings’ books. My wife loves them, but recognizes them for what they are. I despise the books and can bear the movies only once. Many people are led astray as most proclaiming Christians are not obedient to the Scripture to “test all things” or to “tale very thought captive” and they, like Eve, get easily deceived. He summarized the opening of the first book, wherein Potter realizes he can talk with snakes. He then said, “Have we learned nothing from history? When has it been a good idea to listen to a talking snake?” Indeed.

[Southerngl]

Of course they are! I know I have seen at least fourteen videos of Christians chopping Harry Potter fans’ heads off.

[MEGoody]

Geez, what an idiot Rowling has proven herself to be.