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To: mlizzy

Yeah, the point is, if you want people to read something for “discernment” it would be wise to choose an article that isn’t full of errors and outright distortions.

Michael O’Brien has an agenda; he is selling books that say Harry Potter is evil. And if those quotes in the article came from him, he didn’t bother actually reading the books, but pulled a couple things out of context, took information off the internet, and accepted nutty anonymous sources.


71 posted on 11/22/2010 11:19:29 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
Michael O’Brien has an agenda; he is selling books that say Harry Potter is evil.
I believe Michael D. O'Brien read the full series multiple times. He did not want to tackle writing this book, which he explains in the preface I linked to. And the book would not be considered a high volume seller. In fact, his usual publisher, Ignatius Press, did not publish the book. It was published through a small outfit in Poland. It took a long time for us to receive it, and we had to sign for it when it came. (It is now, however, sold through Amazon.)

Michael D. O'Brien has never come out and said that Harry Potter is evil. Again, you might like to read his words. And maybe you do not know of Michael D. O'Brien, but he is a well-known Roman Catholic author, artist, and frequent essayist and lecturer on faith and culture, living in Combermere, Ontario, Canada. StudiO'Brien
86 posted on 11/22/2010 11:46:58 AM PST by mlizzy (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee ...)
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