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

[David McGlone]

On Thursday 02 March 2006 1:49 am, David Colburn wrote:

I agree with Tim. IMHO, Harry Potter, CS Lewis, etc are just fantasy and 
imaginative and purely for entertainment.

If you analyze everything out in this world, you will always find something 
wrong with it so you either look on the bright side or go live in a bubble.

If I were to remove Harry Potter from my kids life, then I would have to 
remove Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny also, because IMHO its all 
imaginative and for fun and excitement.

When my kid starts reading the Koran or the Da Vinci Code, then i'll be 
worried.


> >> 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
>
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David M.