espritch

The difference between the people who read the Bible and the people who read Harry Potter is that the people who read Harry Potter know it's fiction.

Baalazel

What too few of us realize is that at its core Christianity is a magical system. From The Magicians Companion, by Whitcomb out of Llewellyn Publications, The Law of Contagion, "Things once in contact continue to interact after separation. Anything once in contact with a substance, person, or object may be used as a ‘witness’ for that substance, person, or object,” The teaching is that power, in this case evil, is movable and so contagious. An object which is accepted as being evil, in this case a book, can transfer that evil to another object or to a person. The very act of reading the book makes the reader a witness to and of evil.

Again from Whitcomb, The Law of Personification, “Any concept, force, object, or phenomena may be considered to be alive, to have a personality, to be an entity.” The book is more than just a book; it is an active, living, purveyor of evil. Witcomb again, The Law of Intelligence “Any pattern of sufficient complexity will act intelligent when treated as an entity.” The patterns which the Potter books contain are capable of thought, intent, will, and purpose.

Is it any wonder really that the Potter books have raised such a furor among the Fundamentalists? They unconsciously recognize the magical underpinnings of their own theology in its pages and confuse it’s fiction with their own. I invite anyone to study the magical arts and compare them to Christian doctrine and practice. Such a course will enlighten any believer.

Baal

Artisan

I once thought that anti-Harry Potter nuts were pretty much a US-based phenomenon. Unfortunately, I was mistaken. Australian 60 Minutes ran a story on the new Harry Potter movie recently, and a viewer wrote in accusing it of promoting witchcraft, being dangerous to the children etc. I gather such nutters are all over the world after all.
In fact, I recently learned that an Australian man was behind the creation of the, er, Creation Museum. On behalf of all Australia, I sincerely apologize. I also apologize for Rupert Murdoch, and various other disreputable characters that have sprung from the country.