[John O]

Please visit the CWA website for embedded links in the article.

[Smittie]

All this harry potter garbage is making me long for Barney to come back.

Speaking out against harry potter seems to be blasphemy to all the Christian bashers on this site. If you want your kids idolizing little wizards so be it but don't think everyone who doesn't is backwards. There are too many good things out there to waste time with harry.

[Rev. Jane]

I have said this before and I will say it again: there is a war on, there are armed maniacs crashing airplanes full of innocent citizens into office buildings full of more innocent citizens, there are deadly diseases being sent through the US mail, the ex-governor of Texas is doing things that would get a Democratic President served with more than two hundred orders for impeachment--one for each Republican in Congress--and the most significant thing you can come up with to worry about is a children's book? Had I any children I would be thrilled they are reading anything at all besides TV Guide. Kids are much more intelligent than most adults give them credit for--they understand the difference between fact and fiction or reality and fantasy. If any of the current readership has any problems with this difference, a good hint is that reality is whatever still exists when you stop believing in it. When I was a kid I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and it did not make me a submarine captain; reading a book about Witchcraft does not make one a Witch.

Incidentally, I have met about a dozen Witches throughout my life and they were by and large very nice people although a little insecure, and did not kill babies or sacrifice livestock.

[BurFred]

Get a life!! It's fantasy, nothing more nothing less.You and those of your ilk are what give conservatives a bad name.

[Hagrid]

Just as the seemingly innocent Sabrina the Teenage Witch is followed by darker, teen-themed Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so Potter is followed by darker and more ominous books like the Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman.

So if I like Harry Potter, Sabrina, and Buffy, I should go out and buy my daughter the Pullman Dark Materials books as well for Christmas. Off to Amazon.com.....

[Aquinasfan]

Tip of the hat to CWA.

[vladog]

Harry Potter: Much to do about nothing, again. This country has some 'real problem' Harry Potter is not one of them.

[steve-b]

Source: Concerned Women of America

Well, there's another organization's credibility down the drain....

[nmh]

Matrisciana says witchcraft is real, and she adds that elements of the books symbolize pagan deities. “J.K. Rowling majored in Mythology at Exeter University in England. She researched the occult in order to present an accurate representation in her books.”

And the inarticulae and ignorant sheeple, adults and kids alike love it! Go figure. When it comes to God and His Word hardly anyone has time for Him. In fact, to follow Him and His teachings makes one "evil". Oh,how the advarsary is laughing his arse off.

[Texas Gal]

Do you know where anyone might find information on the game "magic, the gathering" (card game). A young person I know well loves to play it.

[Saundra Duffy]

Hello, there's a war going on. For victory & freedom!!!

[jimt]

“With Harry Potter children are for the first time seeing other children, step by step, learning to access demonic power to get what they want,” he said.

Frankly, this is an extremely silly contention. Repeat after me: "There are no real witches, there are no real witches, there are no real witches..." and continue until you feel better.

If there were, why aren't they winning the lottery? Every time !

[Gasshog]

Methinks she consorteth with demons, and Behold! She bears no relflection in yon mirror!! Witch! witch! Burn the witch!

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[Gasshog]

Yes, I always wear black because I am a evil Witch, and I have lured you into my trap...Hey, little boy...if you ask me nice... I will sign your book with MY OWN

BLOOD!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

^_____^

[GussiedUp]

I have a 3 year old so this stuff never interested me much but I do have a question. The guy they just arrested who was apparently plotting to shoot up a school then commit suicide was said to "be heavy into goth". Other than thinking they (goths) looked horrid and depressed (I wonder if there is a higher suicide rate amongst that type of teen?) is that part of "witchcraft"?? Sorry, went into more than one question, I don't know much about the subject as I always preferred the sunnier side of life myself. Am interested in any comments/answers. Thanks

[Bella_Bru]

I am starting to wonder if all this, "Harry Potter" is evil crap is making movie sales soar. If so, good job, and keep it up!

[droberts]

...and they way the talked about 'mounting the broom' in the movie was just disgusting. Has anyone had any luck in using spells and stuff to make things levitate, turn into frogs, etc., so we can be sure that this occult stuff isn't just a bunch of make believe as is the case with Harry Potter?

[jrherreid]

Delete all evidence that you must meet Zeus at Chicago and get the electric icon. Fnord.

[Freeman Patrick Henry]

Oooooh magic....This article is a bunch of crap. What idiocy.

[185JHP]

The temptation is fairly obvious - get some help/power, without dealing with any costly "Thou shalt nots!" Unfortunately for them, dealing with the occult opens them up to contact with demons. "Demons hate love, and they love to hate" - like their spiritual leader.

[Concentrate]

(Druidism is a pagan religion that attempts to recreate the practices of ancient Celtic peoples, which historically included human sacrifice.)

Hello?