[CS-FSLUG] OT: Don't Buy Harry Potter

[David Colburn]

>> When Harry Potter was first released it was
>> condemned as poorly written literature.
> 
> 	Never heard that.

I forget where I read it but I checked their
sources and it is true.

>> Now that our population has been educationally
>> and spiritually dumbed-down anything that
>> promotes witchcraft is considered high achievement.
> 
> 	I don't think it does

Based on what?

We have adolescents desperate for a sense of control
and power who turn to a non-Biblical source.

The result is evil vs more evil.  There is no absolute
good.  Even the producers of the movies acknowledged
that the antisocial elements increased from book to
book such that their movie ratings would probably
have to be heightened as well.

> -- I use to feel the same way, and now I  
> regret having felt so. I haven't read the books (one of these days,  
> but I have too many other books in my "to read" stack), but I have  
> seen the movies, and honestly, its no different than the magical  
> worlds of many other books and movies. The plots are very good,  
> exciting and so on too.

That sounds disturbingly like situational ethics, not
highly recommended to a Biblical Christian.

Jesus said to be hot or cold else He'd spit us out.

When we round the edges by endorsing such destructive
materials because " ... its no different than the magical
worlds of many other books and movies." we lose any
credibility to address good and evil or right and wrong.

Harry Potter has joined multiple witchcraft-promoting
TV shows, multiple games and toys and card-packs promoting
witchcraft, and music and movies doing the same.

This is no surprise as latter days of the End Times
prophesy predicts it, as it does that many in church
circles will fail to recognize it and will actually
promote it.

IMHO ... doc