I must say, this thread is very entertaining. Thanks for the ping RK!
Has anyone used the picture of Dumbeldore with the “Not this @#@! again” caption yet?
Seriously though, I have no problem with the fact certain people feel Harry Potter books are bad. Good for you. But has one of these threads ever convinced anyone of that, or have any of us who like the books ever been able to convince those who believe they are evil that they are wrong? Both camps should just leave one another alone.
While I understand that nobody ever gets convinced in these arguments there’s a very personal conflict between me and the condemning Christian crowd. They’ve been saying my hobbies are evil for a long time and it really pi$%## me off. They’re actually the reason I wasted a couple of years studying the occult, after years of having these clowns tell me that the games I played and the music I listened to was going to drive me to Satan I had to figure out what I was missing. So I wasted a couple of years reading crappy books by weird freaks like Crowley and figured out I wasn’t missing anything, the CC crowd was just making crap up.
That crowd also seriously impeded my faith, it’s hard to want to be a Christian when you’re constantly being told by other “Christians” that you can’t listen to that music or play that game or read those books and be one of them. So really I get in these arguments for the potential readers in the same position I was in 20 odd years ago, I want any 12 year old Potter fans to know that the condemners are a minority and a pile of idiots, and there’s nothing wrong with reading Potter, it won’t make them evil, and it doesn’t mean they can’t be good Christians.
I must say, this thread is very entertaining. Thanks for the ping RK!