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I love you Savannah. Hopefully I'll get to see you this week or weekend. Woop! Its been too long. Lets go to the markets together and buy crazy florescent colored T's together, and eat fluffy, white, cream puffs. :D I get so inspired every time I hang around you.
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With the help of a friend, there are a few links showing Harry Potter is NOT bad, it does NOT support Witchcraft, and is NOT an abomination to the Lord (nor am I for reading it!)
Someone said to me that wizards and witchcraft might be explicitly banned in the Old Testament because the people needed specific guidance that they must not follow the path of darkness, which was witchcraft. The argument proceeded, that in our sophisticated society no one really believes there are actually wizards in pointy hats flying about the place and therefore we do not need to outlaw witchcraft, as such, any more and we can tolerate books like Harry Potter. If we can leave aside the specific argument about wizards in pointy hats, and look at the general advice that we should avoid the path of darkness, I would have to say that Harry Potter seems to me to be an eminently acceptable book for children to read. It is highly moral, in the sense that good prevails over evil every time. No-one is encouraged to side with Voldemort and the powers of darkness. We all side with Harry and Professor Dumbledore. And Dumbledore, as the 'elder' wizard on site is presented as massively benevolent, avuncular and totally beyond reproach. http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/idea.php?id=7
And the best:
American minister David J. Meyer, who was quoted on a Harry-Potter website saying, "J.K. Rowling is a witch," might not like this. He and some religious spokespeople have made this judgment based on the assumption that children are actually being led to the demon world because the Potter series, the novels and films, mention names of demons and use spells. To this kind of thinking, I have an some questions. Did priests, then, lead me to evil by mentioning "the devil?" Is the mention of "Satan" in the Bible doing the same? Why do we Catholics praise J.R.R. Tolkien, claiming that his Christian-inspired novel, The Lord of the Rings, has a spiritual message, but condemn J.K. Rowling for her Potter books? Tolkien, who was deeply interested in Christianity, used magic in his novels. The main, priestly character, Gandalf, uses magic to help the fellowship of the ring accomplish its goal of destroying evil. Why condemn one novel and praise the other? Could it be because Rowling is a woman with power and influence? As to the work's mentioning of spells, Rowling said in a recent broadcast on the cable network's A&E channel: "Never once has anyone come up to me and said, 'Thank you, I have dedicated my life to the forces of Wiccans.' Almost every spell written in the books I have made up myself. Mostly, I took the old ways of saying what the "spell" is. 'Expecto Patranus Expecto'--'Expect patron's protection.'" This is my problem with the Christian critique of Harry Potter. We need to be inspired by beautiful stories, compelling songs and intriguing art, rather than beaten from the pulpit. In our culture, with a fifty per cent divorce rate, it's stories like those of Harry Potter that speak to children. The problem often lies with surrogate step-parents, who, all too frequently, show animosity and a lack of support for their children. Harry Potter also lived with unsupportive surrogate parents, who didn't want him to follow his dreams. I find comfort in this beautiful fantasy world of poetic metaphor. This is why the Potter myth resonates so well in this alienated culture. We need someone to believe in us .We need to exist in an environment that inspires us to transcend and elevate ourselves. We, youth, are not stupid; we know the difference between fantasy and Christianity. All of us need to inspire children to read, to believe and to create. It would be a pity to leave it to Hollywood. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_20_26/ai_111616443
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