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[Grotto]

[sportsguy35]

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[Kimchieluver]

Grotto, thanks for your self induced brainwashed comment. Obviously, it is the TV that is your spiritual inspiration.

[krats1976]

Hmm... I haven't seen anything about Harry Potter on this whole page. Keep with the topic people!!












































P.S. ... please notice my new signature.

[fusionbarnone]

The Bible has had a lot of revision over the centuries, even when the persecuted in Constantinople, complained to the Grand Sanhedron. The advice from the top was to become, Christians(according to some). Many did, and over the centuries advised from the Vatican.

Many of the Popes were pretty radical too, inciting burnings, devout rallies to the holy land (cannabalism saracen butt roasts when conventional food became scarce). Their concept of acceptance of "other" religions/thought-dogma, was still rudely undeveloped. And, intolerance for the alternative, swift.

I'm pretty wary of born-agains(this century); been burned too often by "the found". Folk so intent on finding something "inherently"bad, used to ruin my lunch. I respect them for trying but, refuse to pay the freight on the road least travelled. Perhaps with the negative press on modern church goings-on and liberal proclamations and made for media court sequels; white magick movies provide a great way to get relief(comic, affirmative, or otherwise).

Strangely enough, the most devout support for the faith seem to exist amongst the lupenproletariat/homeless, etc, according to one article(almost validates St. Juniper). Those that possessed the least, shunned by society proper, demonstrate the greatest faith. Potter has a hefty balance in his Elve's bank, perhaps that goes to say the good guys always get what's comin to them, eventually. Hopeful I thought.

Can't say anything bad about Wicca folk, because I know any, do they make nice candles? But, have you noticed there does seem to be perfectly acceptable adult versions; Free Masonry; Druidism; Rosicrucianism; Skull & Bones( do they really have Geronimo's skull), ad-nauseum; -ites and -isms. "Modern society" doesn't blink at this: they have rituals too. So perhaps more power to the Potterites, maybe someday, todays kids will become tomorrow's level 33 Masons who will inherit the earth.

It also seems these days, most people are intent in believing in something. This isn't lost on the media either; UFOs, ESP, inner-discovery of esoteric energies, lost or secret societies(crypto scienecs/ crypto religions, etc). Big Mcs and Brittany. It seems people are so busy being told what the latest fixation is, that they have begun to hibernate/vegetate in a state of full wakefulness. I wonder if uncritical thinking and unexamined acceptance for "all things" delivered by the media is the reason for the proliferation and ready-to-eat belief in urban legends per-se. Modern man seems to be as gullible as their centuries forebears. Crypto is a term intended to lend pseudo scientific credibility to something difficult to prove(your left to provide your own logic). These proliferate, just ask your friends.

Christians have a saying; "he who stands for nothing, falls for anything" and it makes sense in a world without moral constraints. We all need something pertaining to moral values rather than nothing, other-wise the world will honor the values of the Psychpath. So that's a goodie for the Potterites there too, the millenium old battle between good and evil. Where we know the difference. Perhaps and although the context is pure unbiblical fantasy, it does at least reconnect or reaffirm peoples belief in good triumphing over the naughty. That's gotta be a plus.

An indian philosopher/humanist named Sakar, identified social histrory as consisting of the values of the time reflected in the leadership of the times ie; acquisitor, intellectual, laborer, and warrior periods. The periods could be identified by the current values amongst the population during each period; acquisitor=80s greed/ambition/investment(everyone was talking investments; even schoolboys on the bus home).

Perhaps society is in a stage of stasis after so many years of programing selves, discovering inner childs, looking out for ET, etc, that modern society has just decided to kick back and relax from it all. And perhaps, Christianity is merely making a stand against falling attendances. Who know's as long as the popcorn is hot.

BTW: the Nimbus broomstick had to be pulled off the market for delivering more than than it's sweeping power.

[The Great Toad]

HARRY POOtter Is A Brat Boy!!!!!!!

Ok forget the Devil / Satan Harry Vile Cult boy or CS Lewis Spirit Boy.

What I say Ans stress is that when your students who read admire and emulate Poooootr Boy are rebels / brats in your class you can blame Harry Poot Poot as he is an exampple of the rebel child who needs to remember I was in law eforcement am a way smarty teacher an hee shoulds


RESPECT MY ATHORATAH !!!!

(Don't come complaining to me when your harry fans are brats in your class.)

[matthewwoodford]

As an atheist, I'd just like to point out that Stalin, Pol Pot, and Hitler were all atheists (although Hitler seems to have believed in Providence with a capital 'p'), and they killed more people than any Christians in history.

And don't preachers have anything better to worry about than the lure of the occult being spread through Harry Potter? I find it hard to take the occult seriously, but then who does besides Christians and wackos?

[Hans Blix]

[Freezer Burn]

OP, Do you believe in Witchcraft, Im suuuuuure there are a thousand evil little witches and wizard out there yelling "IMPEDIMENTA" and "STUPIFY" to try and hex their enemies in sunday school.
Your so paranoid about the big wide world that a book scares you and your religious friends to no end.
Witchcraft doesn't exist in reality, WICCA does and its used for good and has nothing to do with the devil.

[Ya-ta Boy]

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