Potter Mania: Should Christian Kids Read 'Harry Potter'?

Breakpoint with Chuck Colson ^ | 7/20/2007 | Chuck Colson

[185JHP]

BTTT

[Mr. Silverback]

The problem with American Christians today isn't that they see things like Harry Potter as a problem...it's that so few do, which speaks to the health (or lack thereof) of the American church.

Must be why all those King arthur legends were popular back during the Victorain era...because the church was so weak and unimportant to daily morality.

In all seriousness, you really need to get a grip if you can't see the difference between "All supernatural stuff is make-believe" and "These wizards in a book with a cartoon on the cover are make-believe."

[art_rocks]

“Of course, if they ever did, it would be back to watching Barney videos!”

Now that is evil!!

[ejonesie22]

Cool, did you save any parts? My R2 unit says we need to make repairs. Oh, hold on I need to get my popcorn out of him...

[rlmorel]

Pfft.

No Human Sacrifice? I’m out...they ain’t gettin’ MY money!

[geopyg]

ROFL! I was never into the Hobbit books, but rented the first Hobbit movie when the wife was gone one night to crank up the sound and get into what I thought would be an “EPIC” movie. I fell asleep a few times but made it to the end.

[Mr. Silverback]

The difference with HP is that it makes the occult into something that is neutral - it is only good or evil depending on your motives. This is the lie that is packaged in HP.

Well then, I guess C.S. Lewis was a heathen. Read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe again. The Witch and Aslan both practice "the Deep Magic, but one does so for good and the other evil.

[ejonesie22]

I don’t think they have been turned into a toad, but it does appear that there is a chronos spell in place. Say to the 19th Century...

[art_rocks]

“A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist (aka wizard) among you must be put to death.”

Mixed message. Killing a wizard would go against the commandant, “Thou should not murder”.

[Mr. Silverback]

Considering that there was no air in space, it would have taken us forever to get to Alderaan.

The force was not with you. :-)

[Mr. Silverback]

Ah, another newbie who thinks he’s qualified to judge Chuck Colson’s sincerity as a Christian. Get back to me when you’ve been serving prisoners for 30 years.

[Mr. Silverback]

OK...so you didn’t read/allow your kids to read the Narnia books, the Tolkien books or any fairy tales, right? No magic school bus, etc.?

[Politicalmom]

Well, every one knows Ms. Frizzle worships the devil!!

*rolling eyes*

[Mr. Silverback]

Too bad as a parent you can’t get your kid into God’s Word where he/she can really learn much more about His word, instead of from a fictional book using witchcraft to get a message across.

Too bad C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and Dickesns (Tale of Two cities, anyone?) didn't just have kids read the Bible.

Oh, and feel fre to point me to where anyone has said kids should read HP instead of the Bible.

[ladyL]

Ya know if Merry Christmas is your standard by which to measure a books virtue then unfortunately you have innocently been duped by the true spirit behind both the book and Christmas.

Any encyclopedia will tell you that Christmas, Dec. 25th is the celebration of the birthday of Mithra, the sun god. Constantine, to keep the pagans happy, declared it to be the birthday of Jesus and satan laughs! All scholars are well aware that Jesus was born in the Fall. So Potter’s books which say Merry Christmas, teach about the dark powers that Jesus cast out of people, are now being used to teach children to call upon them as Harry does.

How sad that adults have chosen through ignorance, to allow our children to have their minds and spirits MOLESTED by the same evil that Jesus cast down. So sad.

Remember the children that Jesus cast demons out of and we think nothing of letting our children play with these same demons.

[uglybiker]

Have all of you forgotten your childhood when you tied on a towel and wanted to be Superman? Or better yet, wished you could blink your eyes and wiggled your nose like Genie or Samantha and have your homework done or room cleaned?

So much of what makes America great began with children contemplating the impossible. They didn't stop until the impossible...

became the possible.

[Mr. Silverback]

Also, one message you find throughout the HP theme is that magic is okay under certain circumstances if your intentions are good. You won’t find that in the Bible.

That, oh poor thoughtless one, is because Harry Potter doesn't live in our world. He lives in a fantasy world. The Bible doesn't say "Watch out for Saruman, he's tricky" or "Size matters not when moving objects with the Force," either.

[Mr. Silverback]

Have you kept your kids from watching Star Wars? “These are not the droids you’re looking for...”

[Salamander]

“Mirror” bump.

[donna]

Star Wars! Why didn’t I think of that. Star Wars makes everything okay, LOL.