[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: What I just saw on TV...
wayne gregory
waynegregory23 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jun 14 03:16:41 UTC 2004
Not only that but apperently the Potter books have out sold the bible! Now I don't know if this is true for a fact. But no wonder christians feel the need to attack J K Rowlings world. But saying that What about the Guinness Book of Records, which again has sold more copies than the good book? These are based on the physical world too. Has the church given up on the war with science and decided to fight a battle they think they can win?
dan <lunalovegood at shaw.ca> wrote:--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Jason"
wrote:
> Jesus Killer Rowling? wow.
> Homosexual because he's English? double wow.
> Jason, who is immensely apprehensive at fanning the flames but, WOW.
Jason, these things make certain groups focus on Harry Potter so
much, and completely ignore the 3,456 other books about magic in the
kids shelves.
1 It's more popular.
2 The author hasn't meet with archbishops or bishops or whatever to
confirm herself as a Christian, as Lewis and Tolkein did.
3 Lewis and especially Tolkein were social conservatives. Rowling is
not, by a long shot. The best essayists regarding Rowling in fact
identify her as a social anarchist. She derides bureacracy, ala
Fudge, she despises state methods of control, ala Umbridge, she
identifies ambition as unsightly (see descriptions of any Slytherin
character), she sees positive personal qualities arising from
disenfranchised or despised classes (muggleborns, e.g.) and so forth.
It's like a challenge to the idea, for example, that innercity
schools are more dangerous than suburban schools. (Statistics in the
US point out that most school shootings took place, and take place,
in nice, middle class or upper class suburbs.)
Given this, the response to HP from the Christian Right makes perfect
sense. Rowling is undermining their political beliefs, as disquised
by Christianity.
Dan
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