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Shoulda added this on my last post - because LOTR seems to be the of same genre as Harry Potter.

For me, this stuff is real small potatoes... I'm more concerned with the kids engaging in oral sex on the schoolbus, in the gym, the sudden outbreak of lesbianism among a good percentage of the middle school kids, problems like that. This all happens in my neck of the woods, every day.

If my kid has a good grounding in the faith, Harry Potter isn't going to be a threat to his/her faith in God. JMO.

Many are connecting the dots on this sort of thing with the "approved" literature...it isn't done in an isolation tank but on the slippery slope of our reality:

"For me, this stuff is real small potatoes... I'm more concerned with the kids engaging in oral sex on the
schoolbus, in the gym, the sudden outbreak of lesbianism among a good percentage of the middle school kids,
problems like that. This all happens in my neck of the woods, every day."

I agree that if someone has a good grounding in their faith that they are not going to be converted to satan worship through the reading of Harry Potter. You and I can handle it. HOWEVER, my children are the age group Harry Potter targets (8-13 years old). These kids ARE NOT grounded in their faith. While they believe and have a child's faith in God, they are also very susceptible to the world around them, their environment, their reading, their parents, etc. There is SO MUCH evil in the Harry Potter books that even if we read them with our children, we would have to explain on every page why Harry was wrong or bad ... and that's no fun, is it?

Why do you think there are so many problems like you described among young people today? Perhaps it is because of books like Harry Potter ... and movies ... glorifying self-worship and denying that there is a Higher Authority to whom all must answer some day. The problems we have today with sex, promiscuity, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, drugs, homosexuality, drug use ... all stems from the radical, free will, anti-Christian, do-it-if-it-feels-good sixties and seventies. We are paying the price with the souls of our children for the hedonism of the past generation.

Harry Potter contributes to the problems we see today. But worse, Harry contributes to the loss of souls for God. That, my friend, is truly scary.

Shoulda added this on my last post - because LOTR seems to be the of same genre as Harry Potter.

No, no, no, no and heaven's no!

First, LOTR is literature that has become entertainment. Harry Potter is fluff entertainment.

LOTR is indeed fantasy, but there are clear-cut themes of good and evil and many mirror Christian teaching. Tolkien was a devout Christian.

Having said that, I've read the Potter books and look forward to the next. They are fantasy. They are make believe.

But if they concern you (or others on the thread) then by all means, don't read them, don't go see the movies.

I don't find them any more threatening than The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars or Spiderman.

BUT I don't want to argue about that. My point was, and is there is no valid comparison of LOTR to Harry Potter.