Pokemon,Yu-gi-oh , Harry Potter books, Wizard of Oz

[angels4u]

There's nothing wrong to teach your children witchcraft or how to become a witch, doesn't the Bible promote for us to get involved in it and practice?

Why not serve alcohol and drugs to go with it ,this might make a easier to get closer to the devil.

Can somebody please show me where it says in the Bible "How to become a witch?"

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Sorry, if I was rude....but how on earth can you call evil good and good evil?"

[anitarose]

There's nothing wrong to teach your children witchcraft or how to become a witch, doesn't the Bible promote for us to get involved in it and practice?

Why not serve alcohol and drugs to go with it ,this might make a easier to get closer to the devil.

Can somebody please show me where it says in the Bible "How to become a witch?"

""

Sorry, if I was rude....but how on earth can you call evil good and good evil?"

I don't. But having been a practicing witch, I can honestly say that the HP books have no useful spells in them, therefore they cannot be used as promoting witchcraft. They are FICTION, made up, not real.

Some people say the Bible is a good FICTION book, but we who are Christians know better.

Anita

[rtwo]

There's nothing wrong to teach your children witchcraft or how to become a witch, doesn't the Bible promote for us to get involved in it and practice?

Why not serve alcohol and drugs to go with it ,this might make a easier to get closer to the devil.

Can somebody please show me where it says in the Bible "How to become a witch?"

""

Sorry, if I was rude....but how on earth can you call evil good and good evil?"

Have to agree with Anita on this. Harry Potter isn't teaching anyone to become a witch. I understand you're trying to make a point, but instead, the post borders on hysteria.

[Gerioke]

There's nothing wrong to teach your children witchcraft or how to become a witch, doesn't the Bible promote for us to get involved in it and practice?

Why not serve alcohol and drugs to go with it ,this might make a easier to get closer to the devil.

Can somebody please show me where it says in the Bible "How to become a witch?"

""

Sorry, if I was rude....but how on earth can you call evil good and good evil?"

Have to agree with Anita on this. Harry Potter isn't teaching anyone to become a witch. I understand you're trying to make a point, but instead, the post borders on hysteria.

It may not teach children to be a witch, but it does tend to glorify the powers of darkness in the name of "good"

[KeilanS]

Pokemon,Yu-gi-oh , Harry Potter books, Wizard of Oz

Pokemon is essentially harmless. The big issue comes out of the word "evolve" when one pokemon changes into another. (Yes, I have extensive experience with the series). There is no harm in this. The word evolve is not bad by itself. Organisms evolve, its a way of nature. We slowly adapt to our environment. Thats why people are beginning to live longer. The issue is when we take evolution far enough to say that all creatures evolved from one species.

Yu-gi-oh and Harry Potter... well that comes out of the glorifying and extensive use of dark arts. In Yu-gi-oh these dark arts are mostly portrayed as being used by the bad guys (but not completely) and it has gotten wierder as the TV series has progressed (The use of God monsters and entering into a "shadow realm". Harry Potter very obviously makes dark arts appear as good things. Especially in the 6th book, which has gotten into soul splitting and preserving souls in objects and all kinds of crazy things.

None of these are that dangerous to one capable of viewing them with a Christian viewpoint. I have decided not to read the 7th Harry Potter book as they have gotten to wierd. Yu-gi-oh should not be viewed by small children who have yet to develop strong morals and the ability to draw a line between fact and fiction. Pokemon is just fine all around for the most part. I would have no worries letting a young child play pokemon. I have also ignored the Wizard of Oz because I have no knowledge of it.

God Bless,

Keilan

[anitarose]

Once again, I reiterate my previous comments: as a former practicing witch, there is NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING in the Harry Potter books that can be construed as actually teaching children about witchcraft. There are no useful spells, there's no such thing as soul-splitting----all that garbage is basically used as LITERARY LICENCE. It's all made up.

About the only thing Jo Rowling did with the series, is what LOTR did, and Narnia did---pit good against evil. And, I might point out, both Tolkien AND Lewis were Christians when they wrote their books. So is Rowling.

Y'all are taking things awfully serious here. What about Piers Anthony, who wrote the Xanth series, that deals with an entire WORLD that is nothing but magic? Is HE evil? How about Steven Brust, who wrote an entire sci fi series about sorcery and witchcraft, and the ways to practice both? Is HE evil as well? If you're going to tar one fiction writer, by God, get out the tar barrel and tar ALL OF 'EM.

How about the writers of the Star Trek series genre---all of the books? Come on, get real here. It's ALL FICTION. NONE OF IT IS REAL. You might as well tar Zane Grey too, and Louis LaMoure as well...yep, I'm throwing in the western writers, too, oh, and let's go after the HARLEQUIN NOVELS TOO....they promote pornography....

This is getting silly. The fact of the matter is, if you take ANY BOOK and believe that it's real, it's GOING TO BE REAL TO YOU. Like I said in a previous post, there's a lot of people out there who think the BIBLE is great fiction. We who are Christians know better.

Tar one, tar 'em all, I say....get out the rakes and the pitchforks and go after ALL the ogres.

Anita

[ladypeartree]

[VRSpock]

As a general rule, I don't have a problem with these sorts of things. I read and enjoy Harry Potter in the same way I enjoy Star Wars. And, to be frank, anyone who has a problem with the former but not the latter is either a hypocrite or ignorant. Both refer to a power that doesn't, within the FANTASY realm they present, come from Christ. Just as in The Hobbit/LOTR, Greek mythology, etc.

It is fantasy, and as such is ripe for the reader to get what he/she will out of it.

Actually I just got rid of my star wars DVD collection. A personal choice....my personal expression to G-d of how much I honor Him. Something came up about Star Wars and hinduism and the whole light/dark force being white/black magic.

I'm not going to think ill of anyone who enjoys star wars though. It's not my place to judge on such things, but it is worth investigating it out for yourself and see what conclusions you may come to.

[VRSpock]

Here's another one to consider too: Scooby Doo

It's just a cartoon right? It may also desensitize kids to the reality of spirtuality. Why? Everything supernatural in the stories is revealed to just be some dude behind a mask or contraption of some kind.

Just a thought worth looking into. Again, not condemning anyone.

[LadyRaven]

Here's another one to consider too: Scooby Doo

It's just a cartoon right? It may also desensitize kids to the reality of spirtuality. Why? Everything supernatural in the stories is revealed to just be some dude behind a mask or contraption of some kind.

Just a thought worth looking into. Again, not condemning anyone.

Well, with scooby, the cartoon series always had a villain who was pretending to be a ghost or something, all of the so called spiritual activity was actually fake. When my kids were young I really liked that aspect. The movies don't follow the script of the cartoons.

However, fiction is fiction. How does the fiction influence you or your children? If it causes an inordinant fascination with these sorts of things then it is definately a temptation that should be left alone. For me and my home, these sorts of materials tend to bring on philsophical/metaphysical discussions and I'm happy we've read HP.

ANother thing to consider is the age of the child. I look at scripture and see how God has dealt with His children over the years and in the earlier times (OT) things were much more strict and there was much more "taste not touch not" t han in the later times. It seems an appropriate model for dealing with children. WHen my kids were young we were hardly ever in contact with any violence or sex or magic or...anything sinful on tv or movies or whatever. I believe that the early years are the time we're supposed to be stuffing them as full of truth as we can. Later on, they need to be taught to use the truth to reach logical conclusions. ANd then later they need to be taught to defend their beliefs and so forth. In the later two stages, it is appropriate to have things in their reach periodically which do not always fit scripture so that they can use their brain.

I was so happy when my eight year old saw the wizard of oz for the first time and said "There's no such thing as a good witch." The next time we saw the movie (a few yrs later) we talked about the human view of good vs God's definition of good and, humanly speaking, there were good witches...in the sense that there were witches who didn't violate most of mankind's rules.

My kids couldn't play pokemon for years. Not because it was evil b ut because my son shoplifted in order to get some cards to take to his Christian school where they were forbidden in order to sell them. BIG PROBLEM.

When kids can't determine fantasy from reality there are issues, when they learn the difference then it's merely a personal preference.