Posted on 11/16/2001 4:33:05 PM PST by It'salmosttolate
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:38:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I searched all the other Harry Potter Thds for the word "Babylonia" and found none so here's one with an admission by the author. I highlighted with underline, bold, and italic and removed the prices to sell things to conform to FR's not for prophet status.
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OMG FOLKLORE!!! We are all gonna burn in HELL! Run for your lives!!!!
Matthew 19:25-27
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
Seriously if he's saying that because the book is called "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" it's evil, he's wrong... because the book was called "Philosopher's Stone" until it got to America and publishers were afraid everyone would think it was a dull book about philosophers!
Yea .. but where do we run to????
Interesting. Not in a good way.
Another little item. A person named Vlabatsky is mentioned in the book as the author of a book on witchcraft. It's an anagram for H.P. Blavatsky, the founder of the occultic theosophical movement.
Also interesting that Hagrid's pet dog is the gatekeeper of hell in Greek mythology.
There is more to this wildly popular series of books than meets the eye.
Uh-hmm....
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... Or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a lookng glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways in which He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window. Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious fanatic, it's all on purpose.
---Stephen King
Cernunnos, it's significant, if your mode of dress includes "tin foil hat."
Heh heh heh...
Render to God those things that are Gods'
Uh, OK. Let's say the world is completely material. Just matter in motion, right? Nothing else. I mean, really, nothing else.
Then there can there be no pure accident because everything is determined.
In the real world where God exists, absolute accidents cannot exist. However, "relative" accidents, or events that appear accidental to people, can exist.
I guess it's fair to say, you wear a tin-foil hat shaped like a cross!!!
My, but doesn't that observation by King hit uncomfortably close to home??? Hmmmmmmmmm?
Heh heh heh...
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