[Jarhead_22]

How did I ever make it through my Dungeons & Dragons playing adolescence without summoning Asmodeus or at least running an ogre (or a friend) through with a sword?

It's fiction. If your children don't understand the difference between fiction and reality, they shouldn't be reading anything.

[mykdsmom]

I read the first Harry Potter book, only because I picked it up for .50 in a garage sale. I wanted to see what all the hype was about.

Personally I found it an entertaining piece of PURE FANTASY. I wanted to see if it was appropriate to read to my son almost 7 years old. IMO he's a bit too young for it yet, but I will save it for a couple of years from now.

Almost every Disney movie is filled with magic and witches and we are all ok after watching them. What about most fairy tales? For the most part they are stories filled with fantasy and violence.

My son has expressed an interest in seeing the movie when it comes out and I don't have a problem with that. Harry Potter is harmless as far as I'm concerned.

MKM

[DWSUWF]

"...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.”..."

These words are a straightforward declaration of criminal intent, a felonious threat aimed at the heart of America.

Anyone communicating a threat such as this is both inviting, and morally justifying, the use of lethal force against themselves by those whose liberty and lives are held to be forfeit.

This is an unambiguous, naked threat to overturn the principles of Constitutional rule of law. This is 'solicitation of high treason'. This is 'putting another in fear for life and limb' stuff.

I would interpret such words, communicated to me personally by an individual with the ability to impose the consequences of these actions on me, as an unequivocal, explicit threat on my life and would have no choice but to act in self defense.

That’s so far ‘over the line’ that the top of their head would still be on this side of it when they hit the ground after being propelled backwards some.

[The KG9 Kid]

I freqently ate Count Chocula and Lucky (Pagan) Charms as a kid.

[Wvoter]

We're already teaching our kids that some Saint in a red suit somehow comes down chimneys, this big bunny brings candy on Easter Sunday, and some kids hear that preachers can cure people of fatal diseases, so Harry Potter's brand of wizardry ain't no big deal. Hey- maybe now the Easter bunny will bring us some Bertie Botts' EveryFlavor Jelly Beans. Y'think?

[The Green Goblin]

[jjbrouwer]

Is this the sort of crap you bore people to death with on your DIY radio show?

The Potter books have revolutionised children's book writing. They are, as far as I am aware, fiction.

[realpatriot71]

Damn! The flames from this post are especially numerous today, so I really hate to "pile on," but do you not think that children are able to tell the difference between fiction and reality? When I was in grade school I read fantasy books (full of magic and demons - I stil read these), played AD&D, and listened to heavy metal music. Guess what? I'm still a the Christian my parents raised me to be and you'll find me in church every weekend. I'm still a believer in the loving grace and power of Jesus as the only form of redemption. I do not buy into the New Age "everything is really the same path" crap. I truned out ok. Maybe other kids will too, no?

[Liberal Classic]

If Harry Potter turns people into Satanists, what about Star War?

[SuziQ]

My 13 yo daughter has read all four books at least three times each. I just asked her if she learned witchcraft from the Harry Potter books. It is a good thing she was sittin down or she would have rolled on the floor laughing!! PLEASE!!

[bluetoad]

Here you go…



and instructions.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

I totally agree with you just on the basis of:

If it is not of God, it is of Satan.

Potter is not of God

[moodymare]

Oh Pooh!!!! Have you even read a Harry Potter book??

[TrueBeliever9]

Thank you. The Harry Potter Books are to attract children into the occult! They appear to be quite successful! A lot of the content also builds upon the "situational ethics" that have been used in public schools for years to destroy a conscience in children! There is no right or wrong (as in the Potter series) -- only what you want! These books are promoted in public schools!

[goodieD]

I am ashamed of my fellow so called "Conservatives" and "Christians" who scoff at the notion that Harry Potter books are just plain wrong. The sad thing is, most of you do it because your kids like Harry Potter, and you don't have the guts to tell them NO. You're afraid to not let them follow the crowd on this one. Talk about SHEEP. There's nothing funny or cute about wiccans, pagans, or witchcraft. The left makes it look cute and fun to draw your children in. Oh well.. it's their little souls you're entrusted with, nothing much to you as long as your kids are happy eh?

[kingh99]

definitely so. I am no bible thumper but my 5th grader is saying these incantations to kill people or freeze them.

I believe Bob Marley quoted the bible when he sang

"If you say a curse then God will pass the worse"

[alpowolf]

Sounds like you read the books...so how many magic spells have you done? Oh, that's right: you're different.

How about we let the children have a childhood before we send them to the trenches of the Holy Wars?

[The KG9 Kid]

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[Aquinasfan]

Michael O'Brien on Harry Potter.

Yes. Harry Potter is one long advertisement for the occult and it is aimed squarely at children.

Skip Harry and see Lord of the Rings instead.

[The Man Upstairs]

I actually like the Harry Potter books.

Don't make me come down there.