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
0There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.why oh why must fundies always end up quoting Deuteronomy?
It makes it just _too easy_ to send them up.
Some other observations from that book:
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God hardens King Sihon's spirit and then kills him and all the men, women, and "little ones" in his kingdom. 2:30-34
God delivers Og into Moses' hands, who then kills every man, woman, and child in every city. 3:3-6
Og, king of the giants, had a bed that measured 15 by 6 feet. 3:11
God will punish you for the sins of your great-great grandfathers. 5:9
God tells the Israelites to kill everyone in the lands that that they conquer and to "show no mercy unto them." 7:2
"Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart." 10:16
Kill any prophets or "dreamers of dreams" if they say or dream the wrong things. 13:1-5
Kill any friends or family that worship a god that is different than your own. 13:6-10
Kill all the inhabitants of any city where you find people that worship differently than you. 13:12-16
Don't "make any baldness between your eyes for the dead." 14:1
To God, bats are just unclean birds. 14:11, 18
Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than your own. 17:2-7
Kill anyone who refuses to listen to a priest. 17:12-13
Kill any false prophets. 18:20
Kill all the men and boys in the cities that God "delivers into your hands," but keep the women for yourself. 20:13-15
Kill everything that breathes in the cities that God gives you for an inheritance. 20:16
If you see a pretty woman among the captives then just take her home and "go in unto her." 21:11-14
Rules for a man with two wives: "one beloved, and another hated." 21:15
Kill rebellious or disobedient sons. 21:18-21
Women that wear men's clothing are an "abomination unto the Lord." 22:5
Don't "wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together." 22:11
How to dispose of a hated wife. 22:13-22
Women, be sure to keep the tokens of your virginity. Otherwise the men of your city may stone you to death. 22:13-21
Adulterers are to be killed. 22:22
Kill rape victims if they fail to cry out loud enough. 22:23-34
A rapist must buy his victim from her father for 50 shekels. 22:28-29
Don't discover your father's skirt. 23:20
You can't go to church if your testicles are damaged or your penis has been cut off. 23:1
A bastard can't attend church "even to his tenth generation." 23:2
God's rule for wet dreams. 23:10
How to crap in the woods so that God doesn't step in it. 23:12-14
How to divorce your wife if you find "some uncleanness in her." 24:1-4
You must cut off a woman's hand if she touches the "secrets" of a man who is fighting with her husband. "And thine eye shall not pity her." 25:11-12
The work of a craftsman is "an abomination unto the Lord." 27:15
"Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother" or that "removeth his neighbors landmark." 27:16-17
If you misbehave, God will make you eat your sons and daughters. 28:53, 28:55 28:56-67
By that mindless standard, Mein Kampf would be acceptable.
NOTE TO BROOKHAVEN: Sorry, you're wasting your time. All you will get for your trouble is name-calling and the shrillest of hysteria--[i.e. The ACLU approach = If you are opposed to child pornography you're anti-first amendment and a Nazi bookburner]. This forum cannot handle an intelligent discussion of the Harry Potter phenomenon. You either must mindlessly follow the herd or you are declared insane. Don't cast your pearls before swine.
For proof, stand back and watch the venom hit the fan regarding this post.
It seems as though Sharon has taken this to heart.
I was the same way about Batman and D&D when I was growing up! My nephew was just obsessed to the point of imitating Pikachu when he liked Pokemon. As I said -- when he liked Pokemon. Kids will tire of Pokemon, and they will tire of Harry Potter the same way I tired of D&D and Batman.
Mocking Christians at this site is kind of loopy. Without them, you can just about flush any future conservatives winning any sort of an election down the toilet.
That's fine .. I want moderates to win elections. And BTW, I am a devout, Bible studying Christian.
That's the debate, my friend. You say it does embrace witchcraft, and I say it's a harmless fictional fantasy. And so far, not one person has proven it is a manual for witchcraft.
Just because you and "Up"Chuck Morse say that reading Potter is equal to witchcraft doesn't make it so.
Proof that reading Potter is witchcraft is required. On top of that, you also have to prove to me that reading Mein Kampf makes one a Nazi, and reading the Communist Manifesto makes one a Communist, etc...
Hell, I'll teach 'em for free.
Hate filled Fundies make me ill.
Take a pill. Adjust your tinfoil hat and get some rest. If that doesn't help I'll work up a healing spell for you. URAI
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