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Old 07-23-2007, 06:56 PM   #11
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Um...we DO have Wiccans and Neopagans all over the country saying "This is not a true representation of our religion."
Yeah, but they don't have a big political lobby, so they don't count.

Remember, kids, your religion doesn't count as a "major" religion unless wars have been fought over it.
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Old 07-24-2007, 11:51 PM   #12
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Meh, the Nazi thing isn't totally off. When a friend of mine went as Harry Potter for Halloween (he is a little person, so it was pretty freakin' funny) he asked me to make the bolt on his forehead.

Yeah, I totally did the singular form of the SS bolt, my bad. Honest mistake.
Well, don't forget, the Nazis usurped a lot of previously innocent symbolism.

The Swastika used to be a Native American thing.
Wrong Indians, mate. Swastika

Was a Buddhist symbol. You can still see it all over East Asia.
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Old 07-25-2007, 02:07 AM   #13
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Uh, did you actually read that Wiki article?

Particularly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastik...can_traditions
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Old 07-25-2007, 07:04 AM   #14
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  1. Some fans mimick this marking by giving themselves a lightning bolt on the forehead. This marking causes some concern, as the lightning bolt, in mythology, is known as Thor's calling card (the god of thunder, rain and fertility), later used by Hitler's Nazi party in the form of two crossing lightning bolts (according to Christine Hall's February 3, 1999 article in ESP Magazine.)
These people are seriously the fuck scary retarded.
Who knows what they think of Thor's day.
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Old 07-25-2007, 07:21 AM   #15
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I guess they think Roy Hobbs is the devil? After all he had a lightning bolt on his bat Wonderboy, heck the entire team ended up wearing a patch with the bolt on it. Plus his 1st hit caused a thunderstorm.
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Old 07-25-2007, 07:29 AM   #16
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  1. Some fans mimick this marking by giving themselves a lightning bolt on the forehead. This marking causes some concern, as the lightning bolt, in mythology, is known as Thor's calling card (the god of thunder, rain and fertility), later used by Hitler's Nazi party in the form of two crossing lightning bolts (according to Christine Hall's February 3, 1999 article in ESP Magazine.)
These people are seriously the fuck scary retarded.
... and used by the San Diego Chargers, Tampa Bay Lightning, and the US Army 25th (Tropic Lightning) Infantry Division....
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Old 07-25-2007, 09:23 AM   #17
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...Between attempts to ban books they don't like, ...
It's not that certain Christians don't like Harry Potter books, it's that the Harry Potter books are more popular than the Bible. Grade-school children everywhere aren't reading through the Old Testament in a weekend like they are with the latest Rowling tome.

And, by definition, anything that is more popular than God's holy word must be dangerous. Articles in the OP are meant to warn unsuspecting Christians that what their kids are reading may be the source of their destruction someday.

Similar point: When Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was breaking through the roof, out came all the debunking books published by worried ministers, afraid that their flocks were going to be led astray. There had been other books exploring the same themes before DVC was published--non-fiction as well as fiction--but they weren't carefully debunked because they weren't popular.

Of course, the flip side works as well. The theory goes, Since God makes anything that is good, then if something is good, it must be made by God. This is the reasoning behind the handful of Christians who actually like Harry Potter novels and thereby want to justify their enjoyment by finding Christian themes buried within. Good always beats evil, right? Sacrificing yourself for your friends is moral, right? So now we have books like Looking for God in Harry Potter, or The Mystery of Harry Potter, a Catholic Family Guide, or The Gospel According to Harry Potter.
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You mean Harvey Potter's not leadin' our chilluns into perdition?
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Uh, did you actually read that Wiki article?

Particularly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastik...can_traditions
No, I was primarily correcting the idea that the Nazis took it from Native Americans. They took it from Indians, or what they believed to be "Aryans".

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The use of the swastika was associated by Nazi theorists with their conjecture of Aryan cultural descent of the German people. Following the Nordicist version of the Aryan invasion theory, the Nazis claimed that the early Aryans of India, from whose Vedic tradition the swastika sprang, were the prototypical white invaders. It was also widely believed that the Indian caste system had originated as a means to avoid racial mixing.
I seriously don't think they even considered Native Americans or the dozens of other cultures that also used the swastika.
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This is seriously 100 times funnier now that there's a legitimate argument for calling Harry Potter a Christian allegory.
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