Harry Potter: Seduction of the Occult

Concerned Women of America ^ | November/December 2001 | Martha Kleder

[Phantom Lord]

Perhaps someone who has spent time in regions where VooDoo is practiced can tell you how well it DOESN'T work.

The same voodoo that claims it can raise people from the grave and bring them back to life?

[Outlaw76]

My Voodoo II video card still works, but on fewer and fewer games.

[alpowolf]

Hmmm...I suppose I just have to take their word for it. And of course they have no axe to grind, right? Anything from someone slightly neutral?

If this is the big menace that you guys say it is, there should be more than one anecdote from 1949.

[MSCASEY]

3. They are able to visualize a story using their own minds, painting their own pictures. Heaven forbid our kids have minds of their own =)

Do you really think that the things that are in Harry Potter are a good thing for kids to visualize, and have images of those things in their heads?
MCD

[PurVirgo]

what, kids can't be kids anymore? Fairy tales and ghost stories are also lumped into that category too I guess

[JenB]

Your link was about an incident in 1949 - that's over 20 years before Rowling was born, so it's not tied to Potter.

Incidentally have you come across a spell which is proven - use the scientific method, if you know it - to actually work? I never have, and I know several dozen Harry Potter fans.

As for the poster talking about the girl who was 'writing spells in her bedroom' - sounds like the kid needs a lesson in reality, and maybe some attention from Mom and Dad. Don't blame Harry Potter for every bad thing that's happened in the last three years...

[Outlaw76]

If I say Allakazam! and turn the key in my car, it starts!
Of course, I once said 'Let there be light' and hit the light switch and it came on too.
Mysterious stuff, kinda creepy isn't it?

[Ptaz]

You would think kids couldn't learn to read without HP.

Well I put out a challenge to all these that are objecting to Harry Potter. Create a series of novels that are (1) Interesting for all ages, especially kids; (2) promote reading; (3) promote friendship, love and good triumphing over evil.

Sadly if all those that are objecting would do this, we probably wouldn't have all these complainers.

[Outlaw76]

There are always complainers, never discount that fact.
Even if all were Divinely Correct (a 'christian' version of Politicaly Correct) Someone would say 'Corinthians wasn't meant to be interpreted that way'.
And then you would have all the talk about incorrect interpretation being the devils work...

[~EagleNebula~]

Witches are real. I can see one now. She's riding a broom out by the capitol, not figuratively mind you, but actually flying, on a broom, sans any obvious means of propulsion, in violation of everything we knew about physics, fluid dynamics, lifting bodies, drag coefficients...

Oops, there she goes. I can't proooove she was there, but I saw the Witches of Eastwick on VHS, so they clearly exist.

**** I am hoping this is sarcasm. Since you did not label it as such, I cannot assume.

I have seen evidences, mock if you like. A spell was cast on my sister's home. There have been animal sacrifices near where I live. There was a "meeting" of several in a local cemetery one night!.....People, I do not live in or near a mjor city. This is going on in "ho-hum" quiet church-going towns of the mid-west! Scoff if you like, WM BACH, you will be caught with your pants down! They look like the normal next door neighbor, so take you broom idea, and stuff it! Preferably bristle end first!

[PurVirgo]

the closest thing I can think of would be the Chronicles of Narnia - I've still got mine in my bookcase =)
The Lord of The Rings was of course a staple of my middle school years, but can understand where it can be a bit trying for younger readers.
Anne of Green Gable and the following books were great books that conveyed time-honored values, but I don't think boys would appreciate it for what it's worth.
HP crosses the gender gap in fiction, which can be hard for literature geared for that age group.

[JenB]

I have seen evidences, mock if you like. A spell was cast on my sister's home. There have been animal sacrifices near where I live. There was a "meeting" of several in a local cemetery one night!.....People, I do not live in or near a mjor city. This is going on in "ho-hum" quiet church-going towns of the mid-west! Scoff if you like, WM BACH, you will be caught with your pants down! They look like the normal next door neighbor, so take you broom idea, and stuff it! Preferably bristle end first!

Well, first, what effect did the 'spell' have on your sister's home? None? Better animal sacrifice than human, I always say... and if people do want to practice witchcraft, satanism, or any similar thing, where do you think they're going to do it? A cemetery in a town of two hundred people seems ideal to me... and what should they look like? I doubt 'witches' have tattos or horns or anything marking them as such...

As for the last suggestion... ouch, that's kinda mean.

[Outlaw76]

Amazing realy, only a supposedly 'god loving christian' draws images like that of young HP and his books... wonder where they got that imagery from? shhh don't tell me the bible fed them imagery like that...its... its... EeeeeeeVil

[Britton J Wingfield]

D&D wasn't aimed at young children and it wasn't used in elementary school.

I was introduced to D&D in my 4th grade gifted students class, about 1980 or so.

[Outlaw76]

Her whole house was sucked into the ground leaving nothing but a smoking pit! I know, I saw it...

Oh wait, that was 'Poltergiest', sorry

[f.Christian]

Actually, Buffy preceded Sabrina by many many years.

127 posted on 11/27/01 12:10 PM Pacific by Phantom Lord

My fascination with the occult was arrested at the Jeanie--Babara Eden Level...why I dropped out of the altar boys too!

One of the funniest things I saw was at a west coast hippy fair--gathering--Eugene Oregon was the hare krishnas and the belly dancers going off at the same time and they were all deathly serious--funny--chanting and shaking---you're an occult authority--member aren't you?

[Britton J Wingfield]

As much of a fanatic reading booster as I am, I have to say that many video games are not at all passive entertainment. Some require an amazing amount of problem solving ability and logic. They've come a long way since pacman. TV, on the other hand, you simply soak up by reverse osmosis.

[Question_Assumptions]

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind, too...

[~EagleNebula~]

I think anyone here who has used e-mail for more than a year can see the 'form letter' qualities of it. Imagine if I wrote one.. just for fun.. that claimed I was a pastor who was taught sodomy in seminary school by the head master. Pure fiction, disgusting and false. People feel free to do what they must when the cause is good, even lie.

It was an e-mail letter. I won't deny this. But the truth is in the contents! If I had not heard former witches or even a pastor of the Wicca church speak, I may be skeptical. I know what I have heard from people in it. I know what I have witnessed, and what evidences I have seen. This is not bogus information. You may wish to be complacent, as do other adults and parents. There is nothing more I can do for you, or the others. I can only present you with the truth, and God gave you a free will to choose to believe it or choose not to. The enemy has been working so cleverly behind the scenes.... the spiritual realm is very real. I pray these posts will open the eyes of those who have fallen into a complacent sleep.