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"I don't agree with the Christians who attack Harry Potter, but I can understand their attitudes. It doesn't help to mount a bigoted attack on them."

Then I would appreciate the same understanding from them. I don't appreciate being told that I am going to hell because I read the "Harry Potter" series, "The Lord of the Ring", or play "Dungeons and Dragons" or "Chivalry and Sorcery". I have done the last three for 30+ years and I have yet to have had the urge to sacrifice children or cast magic of any sort. It's entertainment ... as old as "Morte de Arthur", "Beowulf", and Mozart's "The Magic Flute".

I agree it's annoying, but it's relatively harmless. They don't control the culture, the secular progressives do. In fact the only serious repercussion from these silly charges against Harry Potter are precisely what we see here; that they give ammunition to the New York Times crowd to bash "Christians" with.

But more than that, it's better to respect their motivations and try to argue with them rationally then just to bash them over the head. A lot of these same people are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the magic and imagination in C. S. Lewis's Narnia stories.

And I'll go this far. I THINK Rowling is sound, but I won't be absolutely sure until I see the rest of the Harry Potter series. I don't quite trust her judgment in the same way that I learned to trust Tolkien and Lewis, because I'm not quite sure how theologically sophisticated she is. Her instincts appear to be good, but that isn't always enough.

What kind of twisted individual said you were going to hell for reading the "Lord of the Rings?"

They are mentally deranged.

I have not read the works, but you can spot so many Christian parallels in the movies it is incredible. I love the movies.

Anybody who says the LOTR is evil needs to get his head checked.