How does the Pope feel
about those TV witches?
(I would start with Rose . . .)
Posted on 07/13/2005 12:49:13 AM PDT by dsc
***I don't see anywhere in the Bible that childrens' books are somehow evil***
How about "Heather has Two Mommies"?
I am so glad to see this article!
Deja vu?
Deja vu?
This is the same as that dead thread that got resurrected last night. Silly then, silly now.
"Has Christianity become so narrow-minded? "
Yes. Paranoid and fearful too.
Do 'Harry Potter' books also cause priestly pedophilia? Or is the Pope going to continue the legacy of sweeping that little inconvenience under the rug by focusing on other harmless topics, like JK Rowling fantasy literature?
Very good question posed there! Thanks.
"I would think he would have his hands full dealing with more pressing internal issues within his own organization to be overly concerned about a children's book."
One would think.
I'd rather chew on Filch's socks than get involved with this thread.
"Lord of the Rings was written as an allegory for salvation history. Tolkien said as much and was a devout Catholic who had a close friendship with the great theologian, C.S. Lewis. It's not comparable."
Could you perhaps prove that? Tolkien was a devout Catholic but he also wrote quite emphatically that Lord of the Rings was *not* an allegory for anything though people have tried to connect it to Christianity, WWII, WWI, nuclear weaponry etc etc etc...
"The story is neither allegorical nor topical."~J.R.R. Tolkien
LOL!!! Eeewww....
I think I will pass on pinging the list to this one. Like Jen said, it's deja vu all over again.
Right now I'm having amnesia
and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.
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A more relevant question would be: Are you a Catholic?
*** A more relevant question would be: Are you a Catholic?***
No, I am an evangelical Christian.
"The Potter books are literally packed with this stuff from start to finish."
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Wrong across the board. There is absolutely NOTHING in the Potter books that even vaguely resembles any activity proscribed by God. Magic in Potter is purely genetic, some people can do it, some people can't, they don't practice any occult they simply control a mutant power they have. Everyone that says Potter teaches occult either never read any of it, knows nothing about real world occult, or is just plain lying.
How does the Pope feel
about those TV witches?
(I would start with Rose . . .)
I'm sorry I was unclear. I meant the person to whom you were responding.
Harry Potter and friends are characters children CAN'T emulate. Magic in HP is genetic, it's well established in the books that future wizards already have these powers and accidentally display them before ever being instructed or knowing anything about them. Wizards in HP are wizards at birth, everything else is training and control, it doesn't glorify witchcraft as discussed in the Bible because it has no relationship to that kind of witchcraft.
*** I meant the person to whom you were responding.***
:)
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to your
BUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZ.
That a large number of factual errors you've go in that post mister. Are you sure you have a license to drive that thing?
There's not one single factual error in that post. The factual errors are all yours, the HP books are not chock full of occult references. Back up your claim with facts, I'm sick to death of people like you driving people away from Christianity with your condemning narrow minded BS. You people are disgusting, the true tools of Satan or the people condemning that which they don't know and hiding behind the Bible while they do it making Christiandom as a whole look like idiots.
You got facts bring em, you don't got facts admit you're making crap up. Of course the truth is you don't have facts, I know it, everyone who's actually read the HP books and knows anything about real work occult knows it, the only people that don't know it are the ones condemning HP. Every decade this crowd of pathetic morons has to pick something to condemn, and they're always wrong, and always drag Christianity down with them.
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