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Harry Potter Books teach Witchcraft to Children
Chuckmorse.com ^ | Nov. 2, 2001 | Chuck Morse

Posted on 11/02/2001 9:55:30 AM PST by 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


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To: Zadokite
You don't really hate me, It is the Lord, and the Truth that you hate.

From the way you carry on, you fancy yourself as one and the same.

And I don't "hate" you; I'm just pokin' you with a stick because you've got such a tight sphincter.

201 posted on 11/02/2001 11:08:27 AM PST by sinkspur
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To: mike2right
OH! So when the kid, whose name escapes, tell Harry that what he is doing is wrong and he stands up against Harry for right against wrong; then, a spell is put on him where he can't move and falls on his face like a board for standing up against wrong does not apply!
202 posted on 11/02/2001 11:08:42 AM PST by TrueBeliever9
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To: JoeMomma
Bump for your post 188. BTW: Love your screen name.
203 posted on 11/02/2001 11:09:05 AM PST by JRadcliffe
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To: Chuckmorse
“Azkaban,” “Circe,” “Draco,” “Erised,” “Hermes,” and “Slytherin.” These are Wicca names for devils and demons.

I did some internet searches looking for Wicca websites that say this. I didn't find anything. However, I did find a website that you seem to have plagarized from. Your original source?

204 posted on 11/02/2001 11:09:07 AM PST by Nataku X
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To: Rocko
I've got a little black cat who has cursed my family into cleaning his box.

Dude, no kidding! We have that same problem. If y'all haven't tried exorcism, don't bother. The cat will scoff at it and swat at the priest's stole, and the priest will charge you to have the tassels replaced.
205 posted on 11/02/2001 11:09:51 AM PST by Xenalyte
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To: goodieD
"You have the right to call yourself anything you like, but just because you call yourself a "Christian" doesn't make you one."

You're not in a position to make that judgement, and you're arrogant if you think you are. God is the only one who can make such an assessment of my soul. I am a Christian because I've followed the Biblical path to salvation and I live my life and conduct my family life in a Christian manner.

I also am aware that we live in a free society. The freedom that someone has to read 'Harry Potter' is the same freedom I have to worship God as He sees fit. It's called the First Amendment. I think we should keep it.

206 posted on 11/02/2001 11:11:02 AM PST by JoeMomma
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To: JoeMomma
Live and let live, folks!

That's right. If some people don't like Potter, let them not like it. It doesn't mean they are a nut or fuitcake.

207 posted on 11/02/2001 11:11:19 AM PST by AppyPappy
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To: RationalThinker
Yes, and I'm glad you asked.

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SHALOM

208 posted on 11/02/2001 11:12:24 AM PST by marxwas a loser
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To: Chuckmorse
Saying Harry Potter is evil and teaches witchcraft to children is like saying that THE LORD OF THE RINGS is evil and teaches the same. And yet, JRR Tolkein was best friends with C.S. Lewis and taught theology at Oxford (if memory serves). Harry Potter is doing one thing ... IT'S GETTING KIDS TO READ IN AN MTV AGE. And that's a good thing. Parents can handle the rest.
209 posted on 11/02/2001 11:12:27 AM PST by MattGarrett
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To: Chuckmorse
"REMEMBER THAT GOD IS FAR GREATER!"

I not only remember that, I actually believe it. That is why I am not the least bit concerned with your witch hunt or book burning. It's been done in the past -- the ultimate backlash being against "Christians" -- and rightly so.

Think before you post!

210 posted on 11/02/2001 11:13:16 AM PST by JRadcliffe
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To: Liberal Classic
As I understand it, you were born in sin, and damned from birth. I guess, from the same reasoning, that if you had never been born, you would have dodged original sin, and therefore go straight to Heaven. Your bad luck that your parents didn't have an abortion, then you'd be guaranteed a place in Heaven. Too late now, though. You'd better accept Christ as your Personal Savoir, or go to Hell...
211 posted on 11/02/2001 11:13:53 AM PST by null and void
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To: Nakatu X
Those names are half made up. Look at Slytherin. It is a group in Harry Potter's school, whose mascot is the snake (slithering... get it? DUH). Another example: Erised is the name of a mirror that mirror one's desires... Erised is Desire spelled backwords. GET IT?

Other names are from mythology or foreign languages (Draco = Latin for Dragon).

Sirius Lupin, for example, borrows his name from Sirius the "Dog Star".

You are simply plagarizing someone else's lies. Bad form.

212 posted on 11/02/2001 11:14:11 AM PST by Nataku X
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To: AppyPappy
That's right. If some people don't like Potter, let them not like it. It doesn't mean they are a nut or fuitcake.

C'mon dude... these fruitcakes did a helluva lot more than "not like it".

214 posted on 11/02/2001 11:14:40 AM PST by OWK
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To: francisandbeans
BTTT for truth
215 posted on 11/02/2001 11:15:10 AM PST by RnMomof7
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To: JRadcliffe
"Bump for your post 188. BTW: Love your screen name."

Thanks! I've had that nickname from my classmates since my Dungeons and Dragons days. You know, those days when I would participate in pagan rituals ("Trick or Treat!") and watched "Bewitched" and "Ultraman".

Still haven't figured out to wiggle my nose and make mystical things happen. Some paganistic, libertarianish wiccan I am! ;-)

216 posted on 11/02/2001 11:15:19 AM PST by JoeMomma
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To: TrueBeliever9
OH! So when the kid, whose name escapes, tell Harry that what he is doing is wrong and he stands up against Harry for right against wrong; then, a spell is put on him where he can't move and falls on his face like a board for standing up against wrong does not apply!

Well, if I remember correctly, Harry and Co. were in a rush to save the universe from evil. So the kid was trying to stand up for rules and did not have a clue what harry was up to, so I wouldn't exactly classify that right against wrong. In fact, Harry had the greater good on his side.

217 posted on 11/02/2001 11:15:47 AM PST by Always Right
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To: RationalThinker
Really, Then you don't know the Messiah? Go read Isaiah 53. Jesus was a jew, the Son of David.
218 posted on 11/02/2001 11:16:52 AM PST by marxwas a loser
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To: marxwas a loser
You obviously have faith in your religion & I respect that & I don't wish to offend you. But even though I am one that believes in the right to pray in school, I'm Pro Life & I believe in overall religious freedoms. I have to tell you, you seem a little Extreme in your beliefs to me. A series of Story Books is not going to send anyone to Hell.
219 posted on 11/02/2001 11:17:08 AM PST by HELLRAISER II
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To: Arkinsaw
Your point is.........?
220 posted on 11/02/2001 11:17:53 AM PST by homeschool mama
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