I suspect I also would have been lured into the homosexual lifestyle if Paul Lynde was a regular cast member instead of just a recurring guest star.
An analogous situation would be if aliens charged sci-fi authors with specism for constantly representing them as creepy war-mongering bugs.
Boy does it ever! Especially the part where it commands us to go out and kill homosexuals.
When I see this author fly on a broom I'll start to worry about Potter being too realistic.
"...Hitler's Nazi elite were themselves victims as children of what is now termed radical attachment disorder, having been the product of "new" thinking in strict and antiseptic child rearing techniques. These children later grew into conscience-less supermen with no hearts.Attachment disorder is much talked about these days, the latest in clinical diagnoses, applied to such horrors as the mass murderers of Columbine. These are youth that never attached emotionally to a parent, either through multiple primary care givers, neglect or abuse. These children suffer a core rage and an inability to develop normal moral scruples. They are children who often seek out violence and the occult to gain control and to channel their rage. Is there no truer representation of this than our orphan Harry when he points his weapon of magic in rage at his aunt, or when he stands in a dark "haunted" house confused as to who exactly killed his parents and if he should kill him too?..."
BINGO! Above succinctly describes what the American pop culture sheeple may be cavalierly dismissing.
That's great!
She mastered telepathy & time travel? LOL! I couldn't read any more after that line.
You can ignore everything this guy says because of this line right here. The original definition of the word warlock is traitor. Everyone in the occult/ wicca community knows this, they'll inform you in know uncertain terms if you use the word around them. Subsequently no one, and I mean no one, in that community would ever say they were close friends with a warlock. It's like an American saying they're close friends with someone "very similar in manner and belief to Benedict Arnold", just not gonna happen.
Not only that, most children (Chelsea might be the exception) are born as a direct result of sex.
It is perfectly normal for children "make believe" that fantasy is real.
It is profoundly abnormal for an adult to confuse fanatasy with reality. If this author actually thinks that telepathy and time travel and the rest of that garbage is real, the author is in dire need of psychological assistance.
Actually this sort of elitism worries me more than anything else I've heard about the books. I disliked the "Mundanes" of "Mundania" in Piers Anthony's Xanth series, long before I disliked Piers Anthony. This sounds -- although I'll have to read the books to be sure -- like rather the same attitude.
What a bunch of Barbara Streisand, as Rush Limbaugh is often wont to say. People are forgetting that the Harry Potter books are works of fiction, for gosh sakes!
Having read the books myself, there is NOTHING in these books to seriously contradict Christianity per se. After all, note that at Hogwarts they do celebrate Christmas and Easter very clearly.
The phrase get a collective life definitely applies to too many Harry Potter detractors, IMHO.
Orthodox Christianity rejected it as a heresy 1700 years ago.
It was a Persian idea - influenced by Zoroastrianism - and it is in direct conflict with the fundamental principles of Christianity.
For what it's worth, to view the world as a contest between good and evil is to deny the omnipotence of God. Satan is not God's peer - he is a part of God's plan, and evil exists because we choose it to exist - it is within each and every one of us, an inherent consequence of our own free will. It is not some outside force forever battling against the good.
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
- 1 John 2:9-11
Lack of discernment is a seamless garment and is not compartmentalized.
Many will ridicule you, but there are some who will actually read it and consider the issue seriously.
-penny