Posted on 11/19/2001 3:13:11 PM PST by PJ-Comix
What are kids saying about Harry Potter? Here are some samples:
| "I want to go to wizard school and learn magic. I'd like to learn to use a wand to cast spells." Dylan, age 10. "If I could go to wizard school, I might be able to do spells and potions and fly a broomstick." Mara, age 12. "It would be great to be a wizard because you could control situations and things like teachers." Jeffrey, age 11. "I'd like to go to wizard school and learn magic and put spells on people. I'd make up an ugly spell and then it's pay-back time." Catherine, age 9. "I feel like I'm inside Harry's world. If I went to wizard school I'd study everything: spells, counterspells, and defense against the dark arts." Carolyn, age 10. "I liked it when the bad guys killed the unicorn and Voldemort drank its blood." Julie, age 13. "The books are very clever. I couldn't put them down. When I was scared I made myself believe that it was supposed to be funny so I wasn't so scared." Nuray age 11. |
These are the comments of young readers of the Harry Potter wizard books quoted on a new video by Jeremiah Films. On the video, called Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged, Making Evil Look Innocent, author Robert S. McGee explains: "Children as young as kindergarten are being introduced to human sacrifice, the sucking of blood from dead animals, and possession by spirit beings."
Courts have banned the teaching of Christianity in public schools but Wicca, which is recognized by the U.S. courts as a religion and given tax-exempt status by the IRS, is taught freely. Harry Potter has become the method of introduction of Wicca to the very young.
Harry Potter materials have become much more than a hand full of children's fantasy books. Warner Brothers, Coca Cola, Minutemaid, and Mattel have used the Potter materials to launch games, puzzles, toys, backpacks, and every possible merchandizing product.
Scholastic, Inc., a major supplier of public school teaching aids has added the Potter literature to its line of curriculum materials. When the name "Harry Potter" is keyed into the Scholastic.com web site search engine, it returns 268 matches. "Jesus" returned only 23.
And now, a major movie is about to break on the scene called "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Millions of dollars are being spent on pre-release hype.
Once introduced to the world of wizards, spells, and dark arts, readers of Harry Potter can advance their knowledge and skills in witchcraft and paganism by visiting the hundreds of web sites available on the internet.
Or, they can purchase more books on the subject from the well stocked Wiccan sections in local book super stores. Or, they can find over a thousand volumes on witchcraft available at Amazon.com.
Harry Potter books have taken the world of children's fantasy literature by storm. Over 200 million have been sold in 40 languages. One study shows that over half of the children in the western world have read at least one of the Potter books. Many reported rereading each book several times.
But is it just fantasy literature like Snow White and Cinderella? In the Harry Potter video, cult expert Caryl Matrisciana points out that in the older stories, evil never prevails.
There are no absolutes in his world. What is right depends on the situation.
Witchcraft now has a complete package. Starting in kindergarten with Harry Potter and TV witch shows, children are led on to the horror movies and hundreds of Wicca and pagan web sites. When they thirst for more power, high school and college Wicca covens are available. In the adult world, corporations are hiring New Age practitioners to provide seminars in sensitivity training, stress relief, and self improvement for employees.
Former Satanist William Schnoebelen points out in his book, Wicca, Satan's Little White Lie, that, "I finally learned in the most graphic fashion imaginable that the difference between witchcraft or Wicca and Satanism is actually non-existent."
Before he was saved he found himself cruising the streets looking for a lone female to assault, not for sex, but to drink her blood.1
The bottom line is a hunger for power. Harry Potter and the rest of witchcraft promises that power. But in the end they discover that Satan is really in charge of the power and only uses it like cheese in a mouse trap.
Harry Potter provides a basic initiation into witchcraft for a whole new generation. Imagine what the world will be like when they grow up.
Prayers for GW and the Truth!
Most of them, if not all.
Perhaps this will help to understand the situation.
If one is not for Christ then one is antiChristian. The antiChristian actions will be played by the Adversary to add chaos, confusion, and in direct rejection of God's will. Even in the situations where one seeks light independent of God, then one might follow Lucifer's same path.
"The invisible war is waged by men and Satan against each other and against God. The Lord, high over all is not on the lists as an opponent or a combatant. ...Man and Satan are opposed to each other, the two in their positions, each subordinate to God. ... Lucifer became Satan and declared war upon God. God, by nature hating rebellion, sin, unrighteousness, and imperfection immediately manifested His righteousness by judgment and he conflict was on. ...There is only one will in the universe that can provide peace and order and righteousness, and that is the will of God.
When man sinned, he became detached from God, but did not become attached to Satan. Man became attached to his own way (Isaiah 53:6)...."The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.(Romans 8:7,8)"...
Satan would have desired Man as his ally, if not as his subject, but God would not allow it that way."......from The Invisible War, by Donald Grey Barnhouse
The same thing holds true for Wiccans, who do NOT worship the devil.
You are really a very strange person, who promotes unChristian , intollerant, unhealthy posiions.
...baby boiled in a cauldron.
Whoa, I think we read different books. I've never read about a baby boiled in a cauldron, a form of Voldemort-yes, a baby-no.
Wow...I hope you don't tell them any stories about King Arthur and Merlin if you think HP is bad! They would be corrupted for life!
You're letting him read Tolkien?? But, it has MAGIC in the series, and evil wizards, and battles between light vs. dark...basically the same formula as HP.
Pssst. Before you, the last post on this thread was three years ago. You might want to find a more recent one ;)
I take it you are in favor of repeatedly lieing to your children. I think this says more about yourself than those you lash out at.
You're right, since people tell them kids about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny when they're young, we must be pathological liars. I cannot stand people who refuse to mention Santa or the Bunny on the basis that it's a lie- it's about imagination, believing in something fantastic to make childhood more interesting. Tell them the truth when they get a bit older, I promise they won't have to see a psychologist because of it.
You can try and make Harry Potter into an evil plot to corrupt the children of this generation, but you'll fail. HP is a story about a boy who has spent the first 11 years of his life being neglected before being taken away to a place where he'll be loved. He has to deal with things left to him by his fate, decide if he wants to be good or bad, and has the burden of trying to save the world while protecting his best friends and all the innocents. Yep- he's bound to make children become wand wavers instead of loyal, brave kids who will give 100% in everything they do.
You forgot Snow White: promotes sexual promiscuity b/c she lives with 7 men. The shame of childrens movies! :)
The example you cite proves the anti-Potter perspective instead of the other way around. The old fairy tales that portray witches and their craft as evil bolsters the Potter critics...
Of course, you're forgetting Cinderella's fairy godmother and her magic. But you're right- anything with witchcraft must be the devil's work (sarcasm fully on)
Reminds me of a incident that happened when I was at the Naval Academy. Boxing was part of the prerequisite phys ed curriculum. I wear glasses .. very thick ones .. with eyesight that just barely got me into the Academy on a medical waiver. Anyway, to box, I had to take my glasses off. I got in the ring and was having a grand old time beating the crap out of my opponent, who was obviously so stunned by my pummeling that he didn't respond.
It wasn't until the end of the round that somebody bothered to tell me that I was beating up on the turnbuckes in one corner of the ring.
I was bored and looking through archives- couldn't help myself :)
Well, at least you didn't beat the tar out of the referee ;)
S'okay, but don't be surprised if some folks are momentarily confused - I had no idea what the heck you were talking about until I scrolled back up to see what I said three years ago ;)
I read every Hardy Boys book ever written....and to this day I still get an urge to police the coastline looking for smugglers.
Such a temper. First of all: I realize I was typing on a stagnant post, chalk it up to boredom. Secondly: I am aware you are the parent of YOUR children, I didn't think you were the parent of anyone elses. Thirdly: I'm not interested in the ages of your children, I was just pointing out that magic exists in both series. Fourthly: I could care less that your children view HP as hype, and if they like it they are merely jumping on the bandwagon. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about everything, including novels, but just because many people find HP interesting doesn't mean we like it just to conform to a current fad. Maybe you should calm down a bit and stop acting like I'm attacking you. I assure you I am not.
You know, you can reduce that by one chicken if you use a force perfect terminator.
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