[HPFGU-OTChatter] Harry Potter sermon?

[alex fox]

That is amazing that he didn't trash it! Even my boss, who is rather liberal, and borrowed the movie "Dogma" from me , has a "problem" with HP. When asked if he had read the books, or seen the movies, of couse he said "No". I special ordered the book "God, the Devil, and Harry Potter: A Christian Minister's Defence of the Beloved Books" and as soon as I am done with it, I will be loaning it to him. LOL.
 
Alex Fox-Black

Richelle Votaw <rvotaw at i-55.com> wrote:
I just returned from my church organization's yearly statewide camp meeting (I'm Pentecostal) and can't help sharing this sermon.  As soon as the minister mentioned Harry Potter, I groaned.  I just knew he would demonize it and tear it apart.  Never, of course, having actually read it.  But he didn't go nearly that far.  In fact, he said four times (I counted!) that he was NOT lamblasting Harry Potter.  He quite obviously had not read the books, but most of his information was taken from the recent issue of Time magazine that focused on why kids like Harry.  

His basic message was that the reason Harry Potter is so successful is that kids need someone to be their hero, something to believe in, something to hope for.  And that Harry Potter is there for kids when the church isn't.  

I did get the giggles once during the sermon, when he mentioned Professor Lipton, the werewolf.    And I kept hissing "Rowling, it's Rowling" when he kept saying "Rawlings."

Just had to share that, as it wasn't what I was expecting when he started out with "Five books, two movies, etc etc."  

Richelle--who just bought a new Chevrolet Impala, and now insists that the Impala emblem is actually Harry's patronus. :)


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