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BUT WHAT ABOUT SNOW WHITE AND THE WIZARD OF OZ?
Lynchburg (Va.) Ledger (via Nealz Nuze)
| Rev. Kort Greene Jr.
Posted on 11/19/2001 7:07:32 AM PST by Phantom Lord
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To: Phantom Lord
You will note that the comments are that of Neal Boortz and not mine. And you obviously missed my small type under the Bible Thumpers comment. How can I "note" that? You make no reference to Boortz.
Yes, I read the small type. What does it have to do with Boortz or my remarks?
Dan
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posted on
11/19/2001 8:25:53 AM PST
by
BibChr
To: DreamWeaver
Real spells ? Friend, those "spells" were stylized Latin: you know, the common language of Christianity for over 1500 years. Listening to the "spells" during Harry Potter brought back memories of first-year Latin. . .
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posted on
11/19/2001 8:26:06 AM PST
by
Salgak
To: Junior
Your so right, How did Moses part the Red Sea? How did he turn his staff to a Snake & turn the Nile Blood red? Magic? God?
To: Phantom Lord
Harry Potter = 11 letters
Daniel 12:10
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried;
but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the
wicked shall understand; but the wise
shall understand.
911 AMEIRCA IN DISTRESS
To: Winged Elf
If the kids want science fiction they should try something from Issac Asimov. 'Nuff said. Asimov? How about Heinlein's juveniles? Quite possibly some of the finest science fiction ever written. Unlike Asimov, Heinlien had more than six character types and actually knew how to keep an exciting plot going. (All right, Foundation and some of the short stories were good, but nothing matches Tunnel in the Sky, Red Planet, Rolling Stones, Double Star, Door into Summer, Starship Troopers etc...)
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posted on
11/19/2001 8:30:31 AM PST
by
JenB
To: Winged Elf
I hate to say it, but if Asimov had been the first SF I'd read, I wouldn't have become a SF fan.
Heinlein would be a good intro to SF, in my opinion, at least.
To: Phantom Lord
I remember when D&D was going to lead an entire generation into the occult. Why didn't it happen? Heavy Metal music was supposed to turn kids into Satan worshippers too. What went wrong? How did their plan fail?
It was supposed to lead the college students who became engrossed in the game to occultism and satanism, but its popularity proved its undoing. The students who were most likely to be lured into the Dark Arts through D&D were also the students who ditched classes to play. Without a proper college education they never learned how to organize and gain a base of support, thus the occultist movement collapsed under the ignorance of its own followers.
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posted on
11/19/2001 8:31:29 AM PST
by
Dimensio
To: Clemenza
Wait a minute Clemenza. I always heard KISS was for "Kings In Satan's Service" and now I am told it's "Knight's?" Hmmm... now I get what they were really all about...
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posted on
11/19/2001 8:31:33 AM PST
by
Lanza
To: Steve_Seattle
I really hated it when I was a newt.
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posted on
11/19/2001 8:33:14 AM PST
by
stuartcr
To: JenB
I may stir something up, given the subject matter of this thread, but James H. Schmitz's The Witches of Karres was the novel that got me into SF. Cordwainer Smith's short stories and Norstrilia are also among my childhood favorites, but I may just be strange, even for a SF fan.
To: Celtjew Libertarian
A few years ago in North Florida (Union County, IIRC) there was a controversy over a young adult science fiction novel that involved a dystopia that controlled, among other things, controlled sexual urges to control the population. (Unfortunately, I don't remember the title or author.) Some of the Christian Right wanted to have it banned, after hearing that it dealt with teenagers' first urges. That sounds like Kurt Vonnegut's old short story, "Welcome to the Monkey House." In it, the people of an overpopulated world are forced to use something called "ethical birth control," which does nothing to impede fertility, but just makes you numb from the waist down.
To: Steve_Seattle
What makes you think it didn't? Because we don't have an entire generation of satanists or occultists running around.
To: Celtjew Libertarian
I LOVE Cordwainer Smith! I'm glad you mentioned him - the moral themes in his sci-fi are very deep and profound, but some of the stories are highly disturbing as well, and would probably "put off" people who think that books and movies should only be about "nice" people.
To: stuartcr
A newt bit my sister.
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posted on
11/19/2001 8:39:39 AM PST
by
ofMagog
To: Northman
Any book with talking animals is satanic and an abomination in the sight of the Lord. The only talking animal in the Bible (other than humans) is the Serpent, and we know who he is.So CS Lewis was writing "satanic" stories when he put talking animals into the Chronicles of Narnia?
To: The Green Goblin
Since spells, demons, witches and warlocks are products of the imagination in the first place, how can they be "real"?
To: BibChr
I credit via Nealz Nuze in the source. Figured most here know that is Neal Boortz. But I clearly could have been far better at crediting Boortz.
To: ofMagog
I don't think it was me, but after seeing Harry Potter, there's a couple hours there that I don't remember much, except everything was really big!
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posted on
11/19/2001 8:45:04 AM PST
by
stuartcr
To: Northman
What's worse - some kid reading a book they'll forget in five years, or imposing pagan rituals on their fragile little minds that they will pass on to their kids? You probably have no idea where Christians got their Christmas and Easter Holidays...let me give you a clue...pagan rituals. Yet we seem to impose some of those pagan rituals on our kids and think we are doing them great good.
And yes, those pagan holidays were Christianized...somwhat...
To: Northman
Talking animals an abomination? Dr. Doolittle will now be referred to as "The Evil One" I can't believe I didn't see it before!
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posted on
11/19/2001 8:46:10 AM PST
by
Lanza
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