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
All you prove is my case..drip drip drip...you do not evil when you see it..drip drip drip..
The question isn't, "does it tell children to engage in that behavior"..... the question is - does it or does it not glorify witchcraft/sorcery? Yes or no? Does it make it fun and cool?
And FYI - you may not know this, but among teens (especially girls) Wicca has become VERY popular in the last few years. Do you ever surf the web? From having my own site, I'm a member of lots of webrings and I've stumbled across so many sites created by young people having to do with Wicca, Paganism, and even satanism. They think its cool. It may seem harmless to you, but I agree with what wendelmyer said. Those things (witchcraft, wicca) lead kids down the wrong path -- and as he said, it tells them that what God considers wicked is really ok and kind of cool in fact.
You are sick, threatening to burn your children!
I have my 1st edition AD&D Player's Handbook (1978) right in front of me. It says right on the front: "It is the ideal vehicle of imagination for intermediate through advanced players, ages 10 and up". I know, we were all tougher back then than today's whippersnappers, but 10 was still a child even in them there days.
The water has come to a boil and you have not noticed..you offer no cogent argument to bolster your position that this is not witchcraft,or that it is good for the childrens mental , emotional or spiritual health.
You say
I do not take well to those on FR who use their religion as an excuse to hide behind their hate, and I will not tolerate the discrimination or condemnation of people because your God said so.
I would say you hate God,and you try to cover your hatred with name calling and mocking..
And there in lays the difference..a point I tried to make earlier.Today parents need to be moral screeners and interpreters for every thing that the kids see or read. If you read these books together there is much less danger...but I would warn about the idea of spells..all and all if you are there they are probably safe..unfortunatly most are not there!
No, but Dr. Who turned me into a robot dog.
I worked in mental health for years..do you have any idea of how many suicides they tied to D&D?..Lots of breaks with reality too...Now we can say these were not stable folks to begin with.That may or may not be true..but the game pushed them over the edge..
FWIW, Harry Potter may indeed have a sinister purpose. I don't know, as I have said, I haven't read the books. Pokemon could have had a sinister purpose. Or maybe it was just clever marketing.
The original poster felt that this should be a warning to parents of a certain persuasion, many of which lurk here, in a gathering place of a variety of conservative ideals. I have seen a similar article elsewhere.
I do not know how much you are "clued-in" to our faith, but the Bible in Revelation expresses that these things (call it a shift to the dark side, if you wish) are forecast to happen. Nothing I, or any other Christian for that matter, do will have any affect on stopping that. It must come to pass for the conclusion to arrive at the end of Revelation.
It is easy to ridicule things you do not believe in. I understand that. Someday, we will both know which of us is correct.
I can say to the other brothers/sisters in Christ out there to consider what you say here. There are ways to fight these battles, and ways to make them worse. Think about how you will sound. As far as Harry Potter is concerned.. it is all supposed to get a lot worse (read Left Behind) before it gets any better. Any one of you that can't see that happening before your eyes is blind. Evangelize with confidence, but with effectiveness. Consider your audience. This is probably not the best forum for such actions.
I read about such things as a child. I do not remember ever believing that spells were real. I do remember wishing that they were! I also wished I could fly like Superman, etc. I say this not to mock; as a little boy I often had fleeting wishes like that. None of them lasted past the time I closed the book.
The bible warns against witchcraft,on that basis I would not take my grandkids to see the movie nor would I buy the books....
This is America,even practicing Wiccas have a right to be here and worship as they choose..But I do think Christian parents need to think about the choices they make for their kids.
I am old enough to remember the ones that tried and failed..falling to their death..several died that way in the 50's
They didn't read up on Kryptonite.....
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