Millennials Are So Terrified Of Religion They’re Developing One Around Harry Potter

The Federalist ^ | 10/10//17 | Amelia Hamilton

[GoldenState_Rose]

They’re just in denial for now...Many are already coming around to faith in private. That’s my observation.

[Steve_Seattle]

Twice, I tried to get through the first Harry Potter movie, and twice I failed. It just seemed lame to me.

[CommerceComet]

I guess. It worked for L. Ron Hubbard. Let’s take a science fiction book and make a religion.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It will compete with the one their parents developed around Star Wars.

And the one their grandparents developed around really bad writer, L Ron Hubbard.

[NorthMountain]

ElRon deliberately set out to create a religion. Lucas and Rowling did not.

[Berlin_Freeper]

[CIB-173RDABN]

I had the same thought. ;)

[I want the USA back]

Some people, out of loathing of Christianity, rush to turn fantasy into a substitute for religion: Festivus, Kwanzaa, Harry Potter.

[ravenwolf]

Religion can be anything, in fact religion
Just comes from ritual which is king in any
Pagan belief.

So by turning our teachings from God into a
Religion we have set the younger generation
Up for any thing that comes along, just so
It can be called religion.

I hAve no doubt Satan loves religion.

[Simon Green]

Some people, out of loathing of Christianity, rush to turn fantasy into a substitute for religion: Festivus, Kwanzaa, Harry Potter.

I'm not a Christian, and I am a big fan of fantasy (I'll take Tolkien and Moorcock over Rowling, mind you). But I don't for a moment try to find some deeper meaning it it beyond its value as literature.

[Tailback]

Millennials don’t know what bathroom to use and deny the reality of xx vs xy chromosomes. Generation Z is going to drink their milkshake, steal their lunch money, screw their girlfriend, and go home...alone, to do whatever they want.

[Trillian]

By the 23rd Century Star Trek fandom had evolved from the loose assosciation of nerds with skin problems into a full blown religion.



And Scotty beamed them to the Klingon ship where they would be no Tribble at all.
All power to the engines.

[Reily]

First it has to be a mediocre science fiction book!

[bgill]

Zapping a Stupify spell onto them.

[ReaganGeneration2]

L Ron Hubbard: You beat me to it.

If only they’d built one on Tolkien, they’d accidently stumble onto Christianity.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Let’s take a science fiction book and make a religion.***

Didn’t college students do that back when Robert A. Heinlein’s STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND was popular?

[ReaganGeneration2]

Much truth to what you say. The human part within “religion” (that is, organizational) always becomes the issue. In the first 1000 years, there was apparently no question: The “Church” was a mysterious union, of Truth, a body of Christ, beyond the people running it, which each person chooses to participate in, or not. THAT is the entity that will never pass away.

(IMHO, Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy is/are not perfect as is, given people are involved, but closest to this ideal in practice — but remember - it’s a mystery.)

[SamAdams76]

The Harry Potter movies sucked rather badly. They did a horrendous job in my opinion.

I do like the books though. My kids were obsessed with those books and of course I had to read them too in order to see what the fuss was about. I grew up with Tolkien and so those books were along the same lines - except written at more of a child's level.

That said, I'm not a fan of Peter Jackson's films of LOTR and Hobbit either. In fairness, it is a very difficult task converting fantasy fiction to the big screen. It's always better to go to the books.

[Truthoverpower]

Millennial s are lost
Fortunately the next one seems to be very conservative

Listening to talk radio

Not buying the mainstream media

Trump was very popoular versus Hillary with the 20 omethibgs

Once you get the truth. You don’t go back

And old saying is

Lots of democrats become republicans

But almost never the other way

Kind of like churchills quote about 20 and liberal and 40 and conservative

In the case of the next one (y gen?). I think that a) there’s enough media in the internet to see both sides

Also notice that NO liberal can EVER make it in radio

There’s never been one

You can’t fake three hours where you have to fill every second with interesting dialogue

the good ones. Rush Sean Michael Levin Gallagher. Don’t use guests

They have their right hand guy /gal producer screener. But no guests

I was 22 in 1991 when I first got Rush and GG Liddy on radio randomly

You can’t help but be intrigued by what is said by these Giants in the best most free oldest media. Radio

The new generation has All heard it from birth. The MSM is only TV for the most part

You can’t force anyone to turn a dial or click a website

Inevitably all liberalism is is a lie. And the party a criminal enterprise