Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Evangelicals' thoughts on Harry Potter
This article talks about how many Evangelicals feel that Harry Potter is pure evil because it encourages the practice of witchcraft. My favorite part of this whole article was this quote, "It is the duty of Christian parents to oppose Harry Potter and to aviod every kind of evil". What strikes me as funny is that many of these Evangelicals haven't even read the series. How can you decide what a book encourages or doesn't encourage kids to do if you haven't even read one of the books?
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good point!!!! i think you should write them a strongly worded letter!!!!
I actually ran into something like this while I was in San Diego babysitting for a family friend. I thought I'd treat the older kids to go see the latest Harry Potter film.
Luckily, I called the parents before hand and I was given a very stern no, they cannot watch Harry Potter. When we talked about it later, the reasoning was because of the strong "witchcraft" theme in the movie.
Of course, I respected their wishes but I couldn't help but want to argue that it wasn't "witchcraft" but rather magic but a lot of Church's see the two as the same.
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