I'm looking forward to the controversy
Okay, Harry Potter is the most protested book around today, with fundies claiming it promotes witchcraft and satanism. Now, assuming these fundies actually can read, if they read the book they would see it is about a young boy who practices magic. Religion is not mentioned at all, except the school is closed for Christmas Holiday, as all schools in England are. Even the funeral in Book 6 is more of a state funeral then anything religious.
This holiday season, The Golden Compass is released as a movie. That is the first book in a trilogy called His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. It is a lovely trilogy about two eleven year olds, a girl and a boy, who are on a mission to kill God. Yes, we learn in book three that God, Jehovah, Adonia (they use all those names and more) is really just the first angel and he lied and claimed credit for creating the universe because no one else was around to take credit for it, and these two young kids are off with a knife that can cut anything to kill God before he can destroy free will. In this quest they are supported by intelligent animals, goddess worshiping witches and fallen angels. Oh, the fallen angels are the good guys in this story, in which the church is surgically removing souls from young children in order to protect them from Original Sin.
It is a well written trilogy that I'm sure will become even more popular once the movie is out. I haven't finished the third book yet.
But if the fundies continue to protest Harry Potter and not this, they simply aren't well read enough to know what they are talking about.
This holiday season, The Golden Compass is released as a movie. That is the first book in a trilogy called His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. It is a lovely trilogy about two eleven year olds, a girl and a boy, who are on a mission to kill God. Yes, we learn in book three that God, Jehovah, Adonia (they use all those names and more) is really just the first angel and he lied and claimed credit for creating the universe because no one else was around to take credit for it, and these two young kids are off with a knife that can cut anything to kill God before he can destroy free will. In this quest they are supported by intelligent animals, goddess worshiping witches and fallen angels. Oh, the fallen angels are the good guys in this story, in which the church is surgically removing souls from young children in order to protect them from Original Sin.
It is a well written trilogy that I'm sure will become even more popular once the movie is out. I haven't finished the third book yet.
But if the fundies continue to protest Harry Potter and not this, they simply aren't well read enough to know what they are talking about.