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Originally posted by Cottonball
My point is, yeah, some kids will take Harry Potter seriously, and for a while will be devoted to becoming a witch. Then "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" will come out and they'll take that seriously and talk about Oompa Loompas all day.
Originally posted by webmaster
If the author of the books wrote them specifically to introduce children to witchcraft, then there is nothing left to do with them except burn them. And that is exactly what she said in an interview when she wrote the first novel. She has an axe to grind.
Originally posted by LadyFlynt
Thought this was worth posting as food for thought...
By Douglas W. Phillips
To put it bluntly: Bewitched "” bad! Walt Disney´s Merlin from Sword in the Stone "” bad! Glinda the Good Witch of Oz "” bad! The White Witch of Narnia "” not necessarily bad at all, because she is presented as the incarnation of evil. Gandalf? You will have to do the math yourself.
Stated another way, the question is: Does the creation of "œalternative fantasy realities" allow authors to employ literary premises which declare "œgood" that which God has declared morally reprehensible in the real world?
.Pick up a copy of Grimm´s Fairy Tales
The question is this: Is it biblically lawful to create alternative literary realities in which necromancy and witchcraft are presented as glorious, healthy, positive, and good?[4]
Third, many Christians are uncomfortable tossing out an otherwise "œgood story" because it has one offensive element. I certainly understand this challenge. For some, the answer is to perform a balancing test which weighs the good against the bad to see which comes out on top. But when it comes to Harry Potter, no balancing act is needed. This consideration need not apply. Why? Because the premise of the stories is witchcraft, the plot of the story is witchcraft, and the protagonists are all witches. From beginning to end, Harry Potter is a story immersed in a subversive lie about a genuine abomination called witchcraft. Period! Harry Potter calls evil good, and thus falls under the explicit censure of our Lord.
Originally posted by Texas Aggie
How wonderful the Harry Potter books are. Give them to your children. There is nothing more fantastic than mixing witchcraft with Christian allegories.
I'm sure God is quite pleased with "Christian" parents who show their children fantasy from reality in the Harry Potter books. This is parallel to the lie of Santa Clause (fantasy). And you expect your children to believe you about Jesus Christ (reality)?
I know God is pleased that we have mixed righteousness with unrighteousness.... after all, we want to reach out to the pagans as well as expose our children to the joys of magic and witchcraft. How wonderful.
Originally posted by Ex Nihilo
Originally posted by Ivan
Originally posted by Draught Horse
To quote Chesterton, I learned more about reality from fairy tales than I did from "books about reality." Same principle applies with CS Lewis, "The Bible talks far more about dragons and giants than it does about economics."
Economics bores me even more!
This settles it, Ivan. You and I will never be together.
Originally posted by Draught Horse
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Originally posted by HuguenotHelpMeet
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Thanks Jacob. I just finished reading the webmasters article that you posted. Very interesting reading and greatly appreciated. I was wondering what your thoughts are (or anyone else who cares to chime in) on the idea of situational ethics in the movie. To me, that is the difference that I'm seeing between HP movies and LOTR or other books that have magic, etc. portrayed. It seems like Harry Potter (a good wizard) will lie, cheat, kill, steal, etc. as long as it is for the "greater good". The ends justify the means, right? If you compare him to Gandolf (another good wizard) you only see him using his magic for good, right? You don't see him doing evil so that he may win the day and bring down the bad guys.
Originally posted by satz
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I do see a difference between fantasy and witchcraft.
Originally posted by HuguenotHelpMeet
Thanks Jacob. I just finished reading the webmasters article that you posted. Very interesting reading and greatly appreciated. I was wondering what your thoughts are (or anyone else who cares to chime in) on the idea of situational ethics in the movie. To me, that is the difference that I'm seeing between HP movies and LOTR or other books that have magic, etc. portrayed. It seems like Harry Potter (a good wizard) will lie, cheat, kill, steal, etc. as long as it is for the "greater good". The ends justify the means, right? If you compare him to Gandolf (another good wizard) you only see him using his magic for good, right? You don't see him doing evil so that he may win the day and bring down the bad guys.
The evil wizard in the movie said that there was no good or evil, only power. (Buddhist? New Age?) Is this what Harry believes? Is it true? The movie never tells us whether this is right or wrong. It leaves us to decide. It leaves children to decide. In Harry´s world it seems that this is the norm.