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To: Tokra
Should their kids be reading novels about wizards and witches and magic?

I never made this statement!Maybe you're doing a form of projection, taking the statement of one person to ARGUE with another.

Nothing I have said can be construed into what you quoted, unless one CHOOSES to construe it as such.

My comments have been that a parent should use discernment with a childs reading material. Questioning something is not damning or judgemental, it is DISCERNMENT. Likewise discernment is not following blindly party lines, or idealogical dogmas. When a group of christians make statements that kids shouldn't read HP, for whatever reasons, It is a parents RESPONSIBILITY to inform themselves (primarily by reading said book) and to DISCERN whether THEIR CHILD should read, or not read, said book.

If a parent does this, and in their informed discernment choose not to allow their child to read it, that is the exercising of discernment.

Should someone, maybe you, make an uniformed opinion about the parents, contrary to their decision, thats being judgemental.

Never take the statement of one you differ with and apply it to someone else whose opinion you differ with. It makes you look the fool.

245 posted on 07/24/2007 1:27:24 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: mountn man

Sorry to interrupt your rant - but it was simple mistake of clicking the wrong reply button. I meant the reply for someone else.


249 posted on 07/24/2007 1:44:10 PM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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