Posted on 12/12/2001 7:47:07 PM PST by jedediah smith
I suppose Satan only works by banging people over the head so they can readily distinguish evil and good. Yeah, that's how he works. Subtlety is not his strongsuit. He would never try to appeal to that part of our nature that wants to be powerful and magical, it would be too obvious and we would be on to his tricks.
Yeah, and if a bunch of kids seeing adults running around freaking out over it/believing in it, of course they are going to do something, if only to irritate the adults (that's what kids like to do it seems).
I haven't been able to find a really date-specific start point, just "on a long train ride". But an estimate based on quick scanning thru some bio stuff would be around '97-'98. Here's some Bio -----
"The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me."
Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling's life has the luster of a fairy tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at a table in a café during her daughter's naps — and it was Harry Potter that rescued her. First, the Scottish Arts Council gave her a grant to finish the book. After its sale to Bloomsbury (UK) and Scholastic Books, the accolades began to pile up. Harry Potter won The British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and the Smarties Prize, and rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Book rights have been sold to England, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Spain and Sweden.
A graduate of Exeter University, a teacher, and then an unemployed single parent, Rowling wrote Harry Potter when "I was very low, and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad." But Rowling has always written; her first book was called "Rabbit." "I was about six, and I haven't stopped scribbling since."
For Rowling, the change in her fortunes has been slightly bewildering. But her daughter has no doubt about her mother's new career: when asked what mommies do, she replies without hesitation, "Mommies write!"
re : ... Britain has rampant witchcraft and occult activity, and that the British monarchy are avowed satanists
re : Harry Potter appears to be just one more battle in a long war by Britain and the Olympians on America's (and the world's) Christian worldview.
re : This assault really accelerated with the British export of satanic rock groups to America in the sixties. When we look at the damage they inflicted upon our country by using similar cultural manipulative techniques such as promoting rock concerts/illicit drugs, we must realize that the Harry Potter brainwashing is but yet another even more powerful, satanic attack that we can only resist with a supernatural effort through God.
I never knew we still had it in us
Cheers Tony
A few thoughts:
1. "Voldimore" = Voldemort. Someone else already pointed this out. I'm not sure if the error is in the orginal transcript or the retyping...
2. Therefore, in the world of Harry Potter, the power source of Harry's so-called good magic, and Voldimore's evil magic, is one and the same. It is the same in our world...think it through.
3. J.K. Rawlings, the author of the Harry Potter series - It's J.K. Rowling. Are these people even afraid of spellcheck?
4. Joann Rawlings majored in mythology in Exeter University in England. Every bio I've read (and I've search before based on this comment) says that she majored in French.
5. The actual word 'potter,' if you ask a pagan But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Isaiah 64:8
6. There is no right or wrong. Except of course, in that statement.
7. While the reading of Bible-based material is banned in American schools That's a real stretch. Unwelcome? Yes. Banned? Depends...
8. We need to be educated and aware about what is the content of the Harry Potter books That certainly would be helpful.
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I've said on countless threads that I respect the opinion of people who are concerned about Harry Potter and don't want their kids to read the books. But there's a lot of misinformation out there in anti-Potter hysteria.
The usual lies, lies and more damnable lies from the usual sources.
Some Christians are completely untrustworty.
wrong question it should be who...now we all know the answer to that!
So the word of God is a lie?
Exodus 4:1And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
4:2And the LORD said unto him, What [is] that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
4:3And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4:4And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
4:5That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
perhaps the crucification and resurrection were "tricks " too
We will be told to put on our tin foil hats..but I think you are correct
On the other hand, the reason for it being his 11th birthday could be something to do with the fact that, at that age, British children move from Junior to Secondary school, don't you think?
Harry would have been at Junior school until 11, then moved to Secondary. In this case, Secondary School turned out to be Hogwarts.
Neither of you need tinfoil hats, RnMomof7, but you do need to know things like this before casting aspersions.
It is not nice to gossip behind peoples backs..I say it to your face..you not only lack spiritual discernment but the courage to face those you gossip about..
I do not comndem anyone to hell...that is something folks choose for them selves!
Neither of you need tinfoil hats, RnMomof7, but you do need to know things like this before casting aspersions.
Clarify, on whom did I "cast aspersions" or is it that I can not have an opinion without checking with you first?
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