Potter Haters

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Pamela Jordan Paras 
<ladygator_29609 at y...> wrote:
> Thank You!
>  
> I am a devout Roman Catholic and I love the Potter books!  I have 
one child so far and my husband and I have already bought copies of 
the books for her although she's only nine months old.
>  
> I don't understand the anti-Potter stance of Christians, especially 
those who let their children watch any Disney movie.

Especially given all those sexual messages secretly encoded in The 
Little Mermaid (hey, I'm just kidding).

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/minister.htm

Seriously, folks both here and on the mainlist are forever impugning 
this group of people called "Christians" as Potter haters, despite 
the fact that the great majority of Christians (in so far as they 
bother themselves about children's book) regard HP in a positive 
light (including your humble correspondent) 

Enough of name-calling - Do we actually have any data on this? Has 
anyone ever actually taken a public opinion poll or done any kind of 
demographic analysis as to exactly what percentage of Christians are 
pro- or anti-Potter, or whether fundamentalists are really (as a 
group) more vehemently anti-Potter than the mainstream denominations?

If so, I'd like to see it.

   - VMV