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Tra la laaaaa!
Oh no! Not this AGAIN! I am soooo tired of these paranoid attacks! Good grief! Have all of you forgotten your childhood when you tied on a towel and wanted to be Superman? Or better yet, wished you could blink your eyes and wiggled your nose like Genie or Samantha and have your homework done or room cleaned? I went to church and Sunday school every week, yet knew the difference between “fantasy” and reality. My family’s faith and mine was not jeapordized by my childhood fantasies.
Have any of you ever read a Potter book? If you had with an open mind then you would know that Potter and friends is far more about the good values like friendship, loyalty, strength, good versus evil, etc. You even have the characters celebrating Christmas! Not just on one occasion either. In fact, in this last movie they wish each other “Merry Christmas”! When was the last time you had a mainstream film doing that?!?!
You should be happy if your girls think Hermoine is great. She is smart, an avid scholar, strong, feminine, courageous, and loyal.
Ron is funny, loyal, and courageous.
Harry is a defender, a warrior, a teacher, loyal, and courageous. He has faced evil and defeated it. I’d be proud to have him as a son.
Have more faith in your kids. And remember, if they wave a stick around and say something you don’t understand...it is still only a stick and what they are saying is just jibberish. Just like the magician who says, “Abracadabra”.
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Or, even better
Tra la laaaaa!
You are absolutely correct. These books were written for entertainment and for the things you mentioned. Give the kids a break, let them be kids for a while. I doubt any of them will turn out as wizards, witches, etc. They will turn out as adults with an imagination that a happy childhood brings. I do remeber the towels and masks that we used to be Superman or Batman. I also remember the silver with pearl colored plastic gripped guns we used to play Gene Autry or Roy Rogers while we chased the bad guys. What kind of life we give our kids when we deny them these experiences.
Well said.
I’ve got a VERY liberal coworker who hates the books, doesn’t want any children reading them. I asked her if she’d ever read one.....of course she hadn’t. Typical liberal, judging what they don’t know.
The books are great fun. I’m glad kids are enjoying the FICTION.
Oh, Hermione rocks!!
Any encyclopedia will tell you that Christmas, Dec. 25th is the celebration of the birthday of Mithra, the sun god. Constantine, to keep the pagans happy, declared it to be the birthday of Jesus and satan laughs! All scholars are well aware that Jesus was born in the Fall. So Potter’s books which say Merry Christmas, teach about the dark powers that Jesus cast out of people, are now being used to teach children to call upon them as Harry does.
How sad that adults have chosen through ignorance, to allow our children to have their minds and spirits MOLESTED by the same evil that Jesus cast down. So sad.
Remember the children that Jesus cast demons out of and we think nothing of letting our children play with these same demons.
So much of what makes America great began with children contemplating the impossible. They didn't stop until the impossible...
became the possible.
Amen! Preach it, OAV!
Uh, did you even read the article?