Defending Harry Potter

WorldNetDaily ^ | 6/21/03 | Joel Miller

[FeliciaCat]

amazing what some people will tag the word "evil" on isn't it?

sigh.

[Xenalyte]

Does that mean that the exorcist has tried some of the Potter spells successfully? I can't listen at work.

[js1138]

Mine stopped spinning and is now just staring at me. Is that a good sign or a bad sign?

[Xenalyte]

While some children might drift away from the occult when activities don't go as planned, other children might delve in more deeply.

They can delve as deeply as they like. None of the Potter spells will work for them.

How many times do I have to say this before it sinks in?

[js1138]

Aquinasfan probably trembles at every aspect of life.

Ouija Boards?

[null and void]

just marking a spot..

[Aquinasfan]

Potter isn't turning anyone to witchcraft, we can tell because the best proof you have is some crackpot pagan site saying they're being "swamped" by 100 calls a week.

Which only goes to show that no evidence will suffice for you. We actually have videotape of the head of the Pagan Federation saying, "yes, interest in witchcraft has increased since the Harry Potter books have come out" and you still deny a connection. You remind me of Dinsdale. "We actually have videotape of Dinsdale nailing your head to a coffee table..."

[LanPB01]

" in the Cleopatra movie, I was fascinated that Cleopatra had a vaccination mark on her arm. I hadn't known until then that those vaccinations were avaialabe in those days."

I was watching a movie that featured Joan of Arc once, and noticed she had a nice tattoo of a dolphin. This historic inaccuracy perplexed me at first, but when she removed her clothing and proceeded to have sex with a soldier, I realized it didn't really make that much of a difference in the grand scheme of porn movies.

[Wordsmith]

Thank you, well said.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Mine stopped spinning and is now just staring at me. Is that a good sign or a bad sign?

Uh oh. I might have goofed. You might want to crawl under the bed, and keep a 9 iron with you for protection for the next week or so.

Like, right now.

[Xenalyte]

Well, then, I guess that those of us who play "Dungeons and Dragons" or "Chivalry and Sorcery" are doomed without hope, eh?

Sinner! Pagan! Druid! Blasphemer!

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[discostu]

No it shows there's no evidence. Here's the questions you HAVE to answer to be able to stand this absurd claim up as fact:
What is the comparison of their pre-Potter stats to now?
What about the many other pagan groups (could just be attrition as people leave one group for another)?
How many of these people are actually children?
How many are actually claiming they were turned onto paganism by Potter?
Also verifiable citing would really help. So far I have seen no evidence that this video tape actually exists. The PF doesn't talk about it on their website, where is it.

You remind me of the crackpot loons that have been condemning my hobbies for 25 years. It's people like you that drove me away from Christianity, and more than likely people like you that are pushing people to paganism. Why would any remotely sane person want to associate themselves by religion with somebody that think oija board open portals to hell?

[Xenalyte]

That was just plain FUNNY.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Furthermore, sexual abuse within families is far more common than sexual abuse by clergy, yet no one advocates the dissolution of families for this reason.

Liar. Prove it.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

That might be the funniest thing I've seen on here in ages.

[ican'tbelieveit]

In regards to good art being misused, etc... so can good faith. How many people have misused religion to further their own insanity? Yet we don't ban all Baptists/Catholics, etc because a few have been shaky upstairs and abused parishioners, etc.

[js1138]

I have videotape of James Carvile speaking. What more proof do you need that Republicans are in league with Satan?

[strela]

False dichotomy. Why not avoid both?

Because one is a harmless entertainment while the other causes untold physical and emotional damage.

[Conservomax]

Was Jonah really swallowed by a whale?

It was a long time ago, whales swalloewd people all the time back then.

[billbears]

By the way a priest pointed that out to me, The Bible is full of parables, in other words stories to make a point you my friend need to chill out.

Ahhhh, so it's not the inerrant word of God, it's just a bunch of parables. Glad we got that straightened out. I suppose Jesus Christ is actually a representation of something instead of the Son of God too? Heck, why bother with the Bible at all?!? The events didn't really happen according to this 'priest' so what makes the Bible different than any other moral fiction? Heck why even have one in my house. I could read Aesops Fables a lot quicker

Don't know about you but I'd take God's Word a bit more strongly than the word of a priest