I give up on these people... they claim to be God fearing Christians, and I'm sure that many are. However, they are also unbending, inflexible, zealots ... the type who have turned so many people away from God that one starts to wonder about them. Their religious arrogance (my interpretation of God's word is better than yours, therefore I'm a better Christian) is just about intolerable. I pray to God that he helps them see their error before they turn many more people away from God.
I'm a Christian, and I'm a politcal pragmatist/conservative but I don't won't to be associated with those that are so inflexible in their religious arrogance that in their eyes only they are right. I have no doubt in my mind that if the religious zealots here had their way, they'd burn every copy of Harry Potter book they could lay their hands on ... not to mention any other book they deemed in their infinite wisdom to be inappropriate. Would be like deja vu.
You and I are on the same page. It is incomprehensible to me, that these supposed Christians, are so zealous, that it makes them fear exposure to something, which they misinterpret, and then expound on THEIR opions, as though it were GOD's commandments. Cherrypicked scriptures, blashemously used as refutation, is a larger SIN , than is reading a bookof fiction, that has wizards as a component.The Salem witch trials were an outgrowth of this same hysteria.
If the people, who pontificate against the HP books, lived their lives according to what they are preaching here, I might believe in their sinerity. I hghly doubt that this is true. : - )