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While I understand that nobody ever gets convinced in these arguments there’s a very personal conflict between me and the condemning Christian crowd. They’ve been saying my hobbies are evil for a long time and it really pi$%## me off. They’re actually the reason I wasted a couple of years studying the occult, after years of having these clowns tell me that the games I played and the music I listened to was going to drive me to Satan I had to figure out what I was missing. So I wasted a couple of years reading crappy books by weird freaks like Crowley and figured out I wasn’t missing anything, the CC crowd was just making crap up.

That crowd also seriously impeded my faith, it’s hard to want to be a Christian when you’re constantly being told by other “Christians” that you can’t listen to that music or play that game or read those books and be one of them. So really I get in these arguments for the potential readers in the same position I was in 20 odd years ago, I want any 12 year old Potter fans to know that the condemners are a minority and a pile of idiots, and there’s nothing wrong with reading Potter, it won’t make them evil, and it doesn’t mean they can’t be good Christians.

Fair points all. You have more patience and passion than I do. If Harry Potter were real, I would have used the Muffliato charm on these posts a long time ago.

Keep fighting the good fight.

That crowd also seriously impeded my faith, it’s hard to want to be a Christian when you’re constantly being told by other “Christians” that you can’t listen to that music or play that game or read those books and be one of them.

Amen brother!!!

I spent the first 25 years of my life trying to fit into that mold until God finally showed me that He's much bigger than all of that.

Yep, I remember the same crap went on back in the ‘80s when I was in high school. D&D would make you a satanist. Judas Priest caused two kids to commit suicide. Stairway To Heaven had a backwards message that would cause you to worship Satan. AC/DC really means “After Christ, Devil Comes”. “KISS” (The rock group) really stands for “Knights In Satan’s Service”. And don’t even get us started on Blue Oyster Cult and their weird symbol and their umlaut. etc, etc, etc...

I want any 12 year old Potter fans to know that the condemners are a minority and a pile of idiots, and there’s nothing wrong with reading Potter, it won’t make them evil, and it doesn’t mean they can’t be good Christians.

I agree with your point but you might also urge them to not dabble in things that people tell them are bad just because people told them not to. That is a good way to get into places they have no place being.

That crowd also seriously impeded my faith, it’s hard to want to be a Christian when you’re constantly being told by other “Christians” that you can’t listen to that music or play that game or read those books and be one of them

Some Christians have a very hard time being "in the world" but not "of the world". Imho, Christanity is NOT about the things of this world, the things external to one's self. It's about one's internal relationship with Jesus/God/the Holy Spirit. Jesus himself gives a very simple answer to the question, "What MUST I do to be saved"?
"Believe". That's it. Nothing about Harry Potter books and movies, and all of this external "carp". Now, believing could be a question for a whole other thread, but the basic answer is "believe".