Harry Potter Books teach Witchcraft to Children

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

[general_re]

I always find it a useful rule of thumb to stop and reconsider my position if I happen to be in agreement with Jack Chick...

[null and void]

Neville. If Harry and his friends had listened to Neville he-who-must-not-be-named would have been restored to full power. Do you listen to people who say bombing the Taleban is wrong because it kills people?

[francisandbeans]

one look at your screen name tells me that you are a

nice guy

good guy who has a bit of a wild side

A bad guy who battles his conscience

blasphemer.

[AppyPappy]

All they have done is disagree. No doors kicked in and people beaten. Just people expressing an opinion. But you'll note that ridicule seems to be the primary tool used to defend Harry Potter. It's the whole pack mentality. "If you aren't one of us, you are stupid". The same reaction my kids get at school because they don't read Potter or play Pokemon or watch Rugrats. Welcome to the 2nd grade.

[aruanan]

Excellent parody. Though somewhere in there you should give people a better clue that it is than simply taking things to such a reductio ad absurdum.

[JoeMomma]

"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."

That's fine if they don't like it. However they just about demonize those that do, suggest book bans (in a free country!), and question the salvation of those who read such books. Last time I checked the Bible, God pretty much leaves it up to us as to whether or not we read Harry Potter as long as we keep it in perspective -- a harmless fantasy.

However, to say that Harry Potter is a pagan recruitment tool, the terms "fruitcake", "nut", and "screwball" are quite applicable.

[Xenalyte]

Potter is insidious devil worship. you have kids trying to kill their teachers with spells. I don't see how this is useful or desired.

Citation, please. I'm just finishing the series for the third time, and I can't for the life of me recall when that happens. In which book exactly does attempted teacher-cappin occur?

[Liberal Classic]

Um, Hermes was the messanger of Zeus, and Circe told Odysseus how to get past the Hydra on the way to Hades. Draco is a constellation, named after a dragon in Greek myth.

I don't know who there others are, but I think maybe he makes a mountian out of a molehill. Should we expunge the Greek myths along with Harry Potter? Certianly Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are filled with tails of magic and derring do. Should we destroy them like the Talibs destroy images of the Bhudda?

[HungarianGypsy]

The same could be said of many fairy tales. My son wanted to read Harry Potter, so we have read it together. Well... actually, I finished it first. The writing is so much like Roald Dahl.
As for the symbolism of the lightning bolt. I took that as a sign of magic. My Hungarian ancestors were fascinated by lightning (magus magoch).
I am still Christian, though. Neither my son nor I have felt the urge to practice witchcraft. It's just another fantasy book to us.

[netman]

*yawn* I like Harry Potter. My kids Like Harry Potter. We have all the books, and audiobooks. We'll see you opening night at the movie, we'll be in the large group walking past your protest.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Proverbs 22/3

[Ward Smythe]

If your "question" was in English, I could perhaps follow it a little better. As it is, I'm drawing a blank on the specific reference.

Nonetheless, the point is that there ARE consequences to one's actions. Bad actions = bad consequences. When Harry does things he shouldn't, there are always consequences.

[ArGee]

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

What did they do? What did I miss?

Dang, I hate it when stuff happens and I'm not looking!

Shalom.

[nina0113]

No, no, no. It was Sirius Black (who became a BLACK DOG, get it, get it, huh?) and Remus (brother of Romulus, founder of Rome (ooh - maybe we can tie some anti-Catholicism in here, too)) Lupin (Latin for wolf).

Circe, of course, is from the Odyssey, but you know what those Greeks were like (insert homophobic slur here).

Okay, we've got witchcraft, blacks, Catholics, and gays involved here - maybe it really is demonic.

I'm on my 2nd or 3rd reading of Azkaban, waiting for the paperback to re-read Goblet. I would bet money that few if any af the people condemning these books have read even the first.

[NATE4"ONE NATION"]

Which is exactly why, in A.D. 70, as in the times of the Babylonians, Assyrians, etc., when you ignored God, He wooped the Jews butt and tore down their temple (using the Roman army) just as He predicted He would in Matt 23and 24.
Sad but true.

[RightWhale]

The Harry Potter books are virtual manuals for occult practices and beliefs.

And Dan Rather is an unbiased investigative reporter.

[codder too]

AMEN!! Back to ya!!

[Liberal Classic]

I should have read more carefully. Apparenty G.K.Rowling is borrowing from Greek mythos, but he seems to associate these names as being Wicca.

[Phantom Lord]

I bet Buffy the Vampire Slayer gets your britches in a wad, too.

Hey, its Friday! Tonight I get to watch Sabrina, The Teenage Witch! Melissa Joan Hart must have read a Harry Potter book while she was Clarissa and it caused her to go over to the dark side.

[JoeMomma]

"Citation, please. I'm just finishing the series for the third time, and I can't for the life of me recall when that happens. In which book exactly does attempted teacher-cappin occur?"

Proof? They don't need no stinkin' proof! They just KNOW these things! "Divine" revelation, I'm sure. Mullah Omar has the same thing going on, I hear. I'm sure the Taliban has banned Harry Potter from their reading lists too.