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

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

[GreyFriar]

I recommend you read the original book from which the movie was made. I think you will like it better. Rowling uses Christianity, perhaps inadvertently, as her model for the values of the good witches and wizards in the story. My daughter, born in 1988, pointed that out to me when she read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” I then read it myself and had to agree with her. The entire story line is about good versus evil.

[thecodont]

I recommend you read the original book from which the movie was made. I think you will like it better. Rowling uses Christianity, perhaps inadvertently, as her model for the values of the good witches and wizards in the story. My daughter, born in 1988, pointed that out to me when she read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” I then read it myself and had to agree with her. The entire story line is about good versus evil.

I believe it was in the last book of the series ("Deathly Hallows" I think) where Rowling referenced a Bible verse, "The last enemy to be destroyed is death" (I Cor. 15:26) on the gravestone of the parents of Harry Potter.

[pabianice]

Speaking for myself, I use the Klingon Book of Gatthh.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yes.

Also, the good wizard Albus Dumbledore quotes the Bible word-for-word in placing an inscription on the tomb of his mother and sister, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Rowling is an annoying Liberal, and I do not look to her for deep wisdom on the salvation of my own soul, but the Harry Potter books do actually contain a surprising amount of Christianity.

[Biggirl]

I see this generation, the millennials in time coming home to faith in the God of the Holy Bible. Please try to remember that my generation, the baby boomers generation raised is AGING. I am a member of that generation, though towards its tail end. When we begin to hit our own mortality, they will to what is lasting.

[Biggirl]

Correction: they will accept what is lasting.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

Cute book and fun tale of good triumphant over evil....BUT, grown men and women (especially the men!!!) using the books as a religion makes me shudder!

[M Kehoe]

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

And the Scientologists are very wealthy.

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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

And the Church of... something or other is still around.

Just saw an article about the chief Druid or whatever the other day.

(As you can tell it made a real impression on me.)

[ravenwolf]

Mystery is right, Only God has the masters degree, the
rest of us are infants.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. I liked her first book best. They seemed to go downhill and get darker thereafter.

[zot]

Thanks. I don’t recall any other Bible verses in Rowling’s books.

[Lee N. Field]

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

I don't think many actually did. Though, I recall seeing something about RAH putting in a security system with gate and intercom, to keep the obnoxious at bay.

(Wm. Patterson's biography of Heinlein is worth the read.)

[Tailback]

I told a friend that the first book was like “The Hobbit” The last book was like “Saving Private Ryan”. I would never promote this to anyone younger than 13 depending on their maturity level and reading level. The last books are dark. Depressing....lots of death.

[zot]

Thanks for your post #34. I agree.