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 Sorcerers Stone, the orphaned Harry Potter is taken to Hogwarts 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.
Harrys 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 1960s.
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. Its tempting to believe the beckoning voices that display enticing counterfeits of all Gods wonderful promises.
The power is within you, they say. Dont 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 Gods truth to the worlds 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 GODS ARMOR--a set of strategic truths that exposes and counters every deception.
Dont 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
Hey, I'm all for it!
Nice graphic.
Whew...that's a relief. I'm a huge Stephen King fan (but I'm trying to lose weight)...Was getting kind of worried there.
My first roommate in college oh-so-many-years-ago was president of the local Baptist Student Union. First thing he said to me was "You're going to hell for reading that book," as I sat there reading King's The Stand. Told him I'd save him a seat. We didn't get along real well after that.
You might also add The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Christianity with magic) and plan on skipping The Lord of Rings movies (no Christianity, lots of magic, elves, goblins, and trolls, like this article here) movies coming to a theater near you.
So the child abuse, child starvation, gluttony and avarice that they (the aunt and uncle) exhibit are okay as long as they reject witchcraft? [For the record, not all "muggles" are portrayed as the Durleys are]
I looked around the Chuckmore.com website for this article. I wanted to see the date it was written. How convenient for it to show up two weeks before the movie premiere.
I have no problem with people who sincerely don't want their kids to read Harry Potter as long as they know that they're talking about. I've read all four books and am anxiously awaiting the movie and the next book. My faith and my children's faith are not threatened.
More power to ya. Isn't this country great?
Now come the warnings about another "belief system" that threatens. Will we heed this one? Some have and will continue to do so because they are grounded in Truth. Others will issue "foil alerts" until the fatalities of this attack begin to mount up, and even then, deny that the enemy had been defined.
Thanks for this post...
The wildly popular Harry Potter books offer an essential value: the benevolent depiction of a world in which good triumphs over evil.
By Dianne L. Durante
What book has sold several hundred thousand copies, even though it wont appear in print until July 8th? Parents of school-age children wont be surprised to hear that its the fourth installment in the Harry Potter series. Over 20 million copies of the first three books have been sold, despite the fact that activists across the country are crusading to have the series banned from school libraries, claiming it encourages interest in Satanism and the occult. These critics and even many of the books supporters entirely miss the point, and the value, of these books. In fact, children desperately need such books in school libraries, just as much as they need nutritious food in school lunches.
It is true that Harry Potter lives in a world where hats and paintings speak, broomsticks fly and goblins run banks but these are non-essential details. The essential element is the inspiring depiction of a boys triumphant struggles. These books tell the story of an eleven-year-old orphan, despised by the relatives he lives with, who discovers he has a rare talent and works hard to develop it. In the course of his education, he learns to think for himself, to be honest and to be self-confident. He finds friends who share his values and he earns the respect of his teachers. He battles the class bully as well as the most evil wizard on earth, and we rejoice when, with considerable effort and courage, Harry prevails.
What is the educational value of this? A child needs to learn concrete facts, of course, but that is not enough. In order to organize and utilize such facts, a child urgently needs as a framework a basic, abstract view of life and he needs it in the form, not of an abstruse treatise, but of a concise, easily graspable presentation.
This is what literature provides. By means of the theme, plot and characterization particularly as they involve the hero every childrens story implicitly addresses such broad questions as: Is the world fundamentally a benevolent or a malevolent place? Can one rely on ones own mind or not? Is life to be eagerly embraced or fearfully skirted? Can the good succeed or does evil ultimately win?
The Harry Potter series appeals to so many children (and, incidentally, adults) because the answers it gives to these questions are overwhelmingly positive. It shows a world in which happiness can be achieved, villains can be defeated, and the means of success can be learned. When my seven-year-old races around the dining room table swathed in an old bathrobe, with a broomstick made of a mini-blind wand and cardboard, she is not expressing an interest in witches or the supernatural. Rather, she is trying on the personality of an independent, courageous, intelligent individual who conquers evil. She is enthusiastically endorsing a positive philosophic perspective on herself and on the world.
It is a storys abstract meaning, not its physical setting, that influences the reader. The Wizard of Oz, for example, is set in a land inhabited by witches, Munchkins and talking trees but it really is about Dorothys, and her friends, determination to attain difficult goals. Little Lord Fauntleroy is not a manual for how to inherit an earldom but a portrayal of a child whose honesty and integrity see him through adversity.
By contrast, consider the ghoulishly titled Say Cheese and Die! (from the popular Goosebumps series, by R. L. Stine). Here, a cursed camera causes death and destruction whenever it snaps a photo. The main character, who repeatedly capitulates to his friends insistence that he use the camera, is cowardly, panic-stricken and ineffectual. The story ends on a foreboding note, as the indestructible camera, which had been hidden away, is discovered by local bullies, who prepare to use it again.
This book is appalling not for its supernatural elements but for its sheer malevolence: the hero is powerless, innocuous-looking objects wreak devastation, evil is invincible. A child overexposed to the malevolent universe of Goosebumps or Beavis and Butthead, or South Park might well wonder why he should risk getting out of bed in the morning, never mind why he should strive to master his schoolwork or to excel in sports.
What crucial need does the Harry Potter series fill? In a culture where cynicism is too often the dominant note, it provides a reminder that life is good that it is challenging and full of exciting possibilities. The books are, in short, fuel for a childs maturing mind. As vitamins and minerals are essential to a childs healthy physical development, so literature with this view of the world is essential to a childs healthy mental development.
Dr. Durante is a bibliographic researcher and a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute in Marina del Rey, Calif. The Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. www.aynrand.org
All this time I thought that turning away from someone, bending over, and dropping trou was an insult, not a religious ritual.
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