Harry Potter Books teach Witchcraft to Children

Chuckmorse.com ^ | Nov. 2, 2001 | Chuck Morse

[Chuckmorse]

Harry Potter Books teach Witchcraft to Children

The Harry Potter books are pure unadulterated witchcraft.
While they may be exiting and attractively packaged, the Harry Potter adventure series are, nonetheless, introducing millions of children to the practices and rituals of Wicca.
Equally insidious is the subtle indoctrination, through the Harry Potter series, of paganistic Wicca belief, philosophy, and values.
The books, marketed to impressionable children, pose a long-term threat to Judeo-Christian faith and culture.

The Harry Potter books are virtual manuals for occult practices and beliefs.
Under the guise of innocent fun, children are imitating the words, mannerisms and dress of witches.
In the first book of the series, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the orphaned Harry Potter is taken to “Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry” where he learns how to use witchcraft equipment, work with demon spirits, and use words such as “Azkaban,” “Circe,” “Draco,” “Erised,” “Hermes,” and “Slytherin.”
These are Wicca names for devils and demons.

The arch villain “Voldemort,” is described as “He who must not be named,” the same description Wicca uses for their seventh of seven satanic princes, who represents Christianity.
Harry sports a purple thunderbolt on his forehead, the Wicca symbol for Satan also used by the New Age practicing Nazi SS.
Many Harry Potter devotees, mainly children, are sporting thunderbolt stickers as a way of identifying with Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard who assumes amazing powers.

Harry Potter travels between the magical world and the world of muggles, which is the mundane world of those of us who reject witchcraft.
Harry’s cruel aunt and uncle, portrayed villainously, reject witchcraft.
This view typifies the “New Age” and Wicca outlook, not to mention the aristocratic minded political left, which is that they possess an almost magical knowledge which makes them superior to those who are “less enlightened” and which entitles them to use the levers of power to enforce their ideas for the good of the “less fortunate.”

Judeo-Christian values teach that the individual can overcome evil, both in his own life and in the world, by developing character through hard work, integrity, and courage.
The New Age idea, promoted in Harry Potter, believes that some sort of external and amoral magic is required.
Judeo-Christian faith teaches that G-D created man in his image, not that man would strive to embody godlike powers himself.
Such strivings by man to embrace supernatural powers is no mere childsplay, but underlies every utopian movement in history that has sought to “transform,” to use another Wicca term found in Harry Potter, man into a new being.
This is the philosophy that animated both Nazism and Communism and that animates the satanic Islamic extremism of today.

American public schools are apparently planning to use Harry Potter, which means that public schools will be explicitly endorsing and furthering Wicca, in violation of federal law which bans religion from public schools.
The Bible was banned from public schools in the 1960’s.

Berit Kjos, author of “Brave New Schools,” comments that Harry Potter fits the agenda of the education change-agents as they implement the UNESCO “lifelong learning” program through “Goals 2000.”
“Lifelong learning” states that:

“Everyone - in homes, schools, and workplace – must be mentally prepared to participate in the consensus process.
In the name of unity and community, people of all ages must help form new values, challenge contrary beliefs, report non-compliant friends and relatives, and oppose all other obstacles to compromise, common ground and mental health.”

Harry Potter contributes to this “unity” by advocating the “new values” of the occult.
The muggles, those who maintain “contrary beliefs,” are viewed as “obstacles to compromise, common ground and mental health.”
The young student is taught to “report non-compliant friends and relatives” much as the occult New Age Nazis did to implement their “new values.”
Likewise, the Soviets knew how to handle those who were “obstacles to compromise, common ground and mental health.”

Beret Kjos offers many practical strategies to counter the Harry Potter influence:

KNOW THE TRUE GOD. When children know God, they will recognize the seductive counterfeits.

SHUN OTHER GODS. It’s tempting to believe the beckoning voices that display enticing counterfeits of all God’s wonderful promises.
The power is within you, they say. Don’t listen to the lies.

REMEMBER HISTORY'S LESSONS. The witchcraft and wizardry in Harry Potter books may be fantasy, but they familiarize children with a very real and increasingly popular religion – one that few really understand.
Far removed from the terrors of tribal witchcraft and shamanism, Americans are oblivious to the bondages that normally follow occult favors.
But historical and archeological records have traced the earth-centered myths, practices, and consequences through the millennia.
The human cruelties involved in pagan worship included torture, mutilation and human sacrifice.
Many of these practices continued in parts of the world until the 20th century, when the spread of Christianity with its emphasis on love and the value of life, made most of these cruelties intolerable.
But now the world turns, once again, from God’s truth to the world’s gods and rituals.

SHARE GOD'S LOVE WITH EVERYONE. God's way to multicultural understanding and global unity is essential today.
He cares for people in every culture, longs to set them free, and wants to love them through us.
Harry Potter may conquer evil forces with witchcraft, but in the real spiritual world, no pagan power can counter the frightening consequences of dealing with demons. Only God can.

DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR FAITH.

REMEMBER THAT GOD IS FAR GREATER!

PRAY. Only God can slow the massive international movement toward conformity to pagan beliefs and values.
In a nation that has traded truth and reality for politically correct tolerance and unity, Christians are called to remain faithful, prayerful and hopeful in Christ, who offers genuine love and unity.

WEAR GOD’S ARMOR--a set of strategic truths that exposes and counters every deception.
Don’t forget that our real enemy is the spiritual hierarchy of occult forces, not globalist educators or well-meaning teachers.
Only God's power and protection will enable our children to resist and triumph.

Chuck Morse www.1stbooks.com/bookview/7510

[Aquinasfan]

Michael O'Brien on Harry Potter.

Yes. Harry Potter is one long advertisement for the occult and it is aimed squarely at children.

Skip Harry and see Lord of the Rings instead.

[ArGee]

A witch's group in England reports a large increase in interest from kids which they attribute to Potter. A mere coincidence I'm sure.

I read that was U.L.

Shalom.

[gdani]

As usual, fundamentalist LOSERS manage to run off a zillion potential converts. You know who makes me question my faith the most? Not the atheists, but the evangelicals....

Well said. Of all the atheists I know I've never had one try to *convert* me and they seem to all keep their beliefs (or lack thereof) to themselves.

I know an equal amount of evangelicals and I can't tell you how many times I've had to have "the talk" with them i.e. "if you keep insisting on trying to convert me to your thinking our friendship will be in jeopardy"

[The Man Upstairs]

I actually like the Harry Potter books.

Don't make me come down there.

[Irish Queen]

I am a evangelical Christian. But I believe there is too much fuss over a slightly above average, way over-promoted children's book series. If this book had been published by a small publishing house with an even smaller promotion budget it would never have become a best seller. Scholastic presented the book as a kiddie "Gone With the Wind". The hardcover books are printed on extra thick paper, with wide margins and spacings between the letters. It gives the illusion of being a grown-up novel. Months before "Harry Potter" arrived in North America the books promotion machinery was up and running in America. If "Goosebumps" books had been bundled and promoted as well as the Harry Potter books they would have been as popular as Harry Potter. Far superior to any "Harry Potter" book are the "Lord of the Ring" trilogy and the "Narnia Chronicles" that feature "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Parents, teachers and other grownups it would be silly to proclaim "Harry Potter" books as the greatest novel series for children ever written without reading the other classics of children's literature first. Relax, let the kids enjoy the series at their pace with their friends. They do not need or want your help to enjoy these books. Many a parent or teacher has wrecked a book through overkill enthusiam. If the "Harry Potter" books are still read eagerly by our kids' kids then perhaps "Harry Potter" books will join the rarified ranks of "Classic Children's Literature".

[francisandbeans]

you are so right....REPENT!!!!!!!!

PS. I was wondering if you could help me with a dillema I have. My neighbor borrowed my hedgetrimmers without asking, is it still OK to stone a thief?

[JoeMomma]

"BTW..the books "Heather Has Two Mommies" is cute and easy to read too, would you like your kids reading that? Why not? As long as they're reading, right?"

You, as a parent, have the right to dictate what your children read.

I, as a parent, have the right to dictate what my children read.

You, as another child's parent, have NO right whatsoever to dictate what my children read. If I want my children to read 'Heather has Two Mommies' and 'Harry Potter', there's not a heck of a lot you can do about it.

As for Harry Potter, it's harmless fantasy. When I was 10, I was a big fan of Dungeons and Dragons. I'm a Christian today. However, there are some so-called "religious righties" that are scared silly that someone, somewhere is having fun outside of a church setting. That's all the silly anti-Potter flap is about.

As for "Up" Chuck Morse, he's appears to be a

[ArGee]

already told my kids if they buy them for the grndkids I will burn them.

Is burning grandkids legal where you live?

Shalom.

[Equality 7-2521]

Oh no, witchcraft you say! We'd better muster the troops to the town square for a good old book burning party. If we're lucky, maybe we can find a few of those child witches to burn, too, while we're at it. </sarcasm>

 

[Arkinsaw]

MONK: [chanting]
Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem.
[bonk]
Pie Iesu domine,...
[bonk]
...dona eis requiem.
[bonk]
Pie Iesu domine,...
[bonk]
...dona eis requiem.
CROWD:
A witch! A witch!
[bonk]
A witch! A witch!
MONKS: [chanting]
Pie Iesu domine...

[alpowolf]

Potter is insidious devil worship.

You must have read the books too. You devil worshipper!

you have kids trying to kill their teachers with spells

Oh really? A wave of teachers killed by magic, how did I miss that little news item?

BTW kids were interested in magic and such when I was a kid...this was well before the Potter books existed. Everybody grew out of it by high school.

[goodieD]

You have the right to call yourself anything you like, but just because you call yourself a "Christian" doesn't make you one.

[seams2me]

NOW I understand the term "freeptard". Thanks.

By the way, I think you could sue if you had given your life to Jesus after watching a televangelist, but not if you sold your soul to Satan after watching a sitcom. That would be politically incorrect, someone would find a reason that it had something to do with the separation of church and state.

[Chicago Guy 2]

Bump! That is a great way of putting it!

[Xenalyte]

Dear Kettle,

Yes, I am black.

(S) Pot.

A friend of mine used to say, "Kettle, Pot is not impressed."

[JoeMomma]

Well said! One of the biggest problems that some evangelicals have when it comes to teaching others the Bible is not the "world" -- it's themselves! There are some screwballs who feel like they have to be some kind of self-appointed "moral busybodies". Their aim is NOT at saving the lost -- it's at keeping their nose in other people's business 24/7.

Live and let live, folks! We live in a free nation, not some Protestant version of the Taliban.

[marxwas a loser]

1 Cor 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace

My faith is as strong as ever, because He (the Lord JESUS CHRIST) is faithful.