For those of you who think Harry is evil.

[Iryssa]

Yes, I read the article. Once in my email and again when you posted it 

Don't be frustrated

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*smile* Thanks...good to know

[Speechless]

For those who do condone reading Harry Potter books, would you also read Lady Chatterly's diaries, or watch the movies based on the books?

Or do you read playboy or hustler magazines? Or watch Playboy channel, or spice channel?

Afterall, they're only magazines.... Its only a tv show

[Smalcald]

I read the article.

I think it makes some good points particularly about the use of fantasy and symbols within Christian thinking.

But for me the problem with the Potter series may not be the actual series, or the content per-se. But the environment which we currently live in the West and how those books may feed into that environment in ways that were unthinkable twenty or thirty years ago I think is the problem when the book is read by children.

I think for example that if you told someone in the 50's that there would be an active and serious movement of people in the US who called themselves wizards and witches and that they took this practice seriously and promoted this as an earth based religion and "good", they would think you were nuts. I live in a small community, yet I know several people who take Wicca as a serious faith and practice it.

To the degree that Potter feeds that movement by indoctrinating kids to the idea that Wizards are okay and a good thing this is the problem, not the use of wizards or fantasy in the Potter books per-se. When witches were just a Halloween joke and good fun well that was fine, but today we have real witches who want to be accepted as good along with their use of the occult.

[Orr v'emet]

I also "know of what I speak" when I say that not everyone is the same, and that there ARE good messages in the books.

I wonder if the world is looking for the "good messages" in these books/movies.

[other one]

*frustrated sigh* So, has anyone actually READ the article? Anyone? I would like to request that you don't post in this discussion unless you've read it...obviously, I can't force that...but please do me that as a favour. I made this thread for the ARTICLE, not so that we could regurgitate the same old arguments.

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Yes I read the article and I still have the same old agrument, because that same old argument is still valid....

[Guest Zayit]

My first contention with this would be the title of the book

"Looking for G-d in Harry Potter"

Firstly, why go to an ungodly source to find the true G-d?

I don't buy this either:

Books that are rich in symbolism necessarily support a Christian worldview.

Am I understanding correctly that this author is comparing Harry Potter to Jesus Christ!

Does the blasphemy ever end?

And Christ is the unicorn who has been slain and had his blood lapped up by a snake???? That right there to me shows the satanic origin of these books.

everything remains the same, just packaged differently, todays world is more knowledgable so the enemy has to update the packaging, before it was limited to cultures and handed down legends, or pantheons of gods for all kinds of thing, and these in the first centuries were renamed for acceptability, but now this is known by many so now the line becomes more blurred, that secret things such as these animals are hidden once again to make palatable to the more informed but still gullible mankind that he faced in the garden so long ago.

It is so mixing the true heavenly with the corruption of the earthly done by the enemy.

[Kabowd]

I admit, I didn't read the entire article...but I do have a comment. Maybe this author is trying to take something relevant to our culture and use it to reach ppl for Christ. Regardless of how you feel about the Harry Potter series, it's obvious that they have strongly influenced our culture. Why not use this to point ppl back to Christ? Even Joseph understood this principle in Genesis 50:20. What satan intends for evil, God can still use for good.

[mikado5001]

I wonder if the world is looking for the "good messages" in these books/movies.

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Edited July 21, 2005 by mikado5001

[Orr v'emet]

I admit, I didn't read the entire article...but I do have a comment. Maybe this author is trying to take something relevant to our culture and use it to reach ppl for Christ. Regardless of how you feel about the Harry Potter series, it's obvious that they have strongly influenced our culture. Why not use this to point ppl back to Christ? Even Joseph understood this principle in Genesis 50:20. What satan intends for evil, God can still use for good.

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While I would agree with you Tess, I would say that I don't believe this is the way God would have it...it wouldn't be His perfect plan. So...just because He can use the evil for good doesn't make it right.

[Gerioke]

Harry Potter isn't as evil as the spirit behind him.