[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Catholic newspaper publishes debate about HP - what do people think?

[Janette]

>
> Tonks:
> Interesting article. I had not been following the discussion if
> there has been one. I can see the point of the man who fears a
> Gnostic interpretation. That could happen. I don't think that is the
> way the author intended it, however. I think the message is very
> clear and very simple, but I am rather shocked that people from the
> Vatican of all places can't see it.  But then the Vatican reported
> on it, but the men in the debate were not from the Vatican. They
> were a Doctor and a College professor. We do not know if they have
> any theological training. I suspect not, or they would have seen the
> obvious message of the book.
>
> The difference between the Muggle world and the Wizard world is that
> the Wizard is a person who is aware of the spiritual world and the
> deeper truth that exist around them. All of the monks that I know
> just love the HP books.  Anyone with any theological training should
> be able to see what Harry became. It just jumps right off the page.
> He is Everyman (each of us) transformed into Christ.


montims:

and yet that is not at all the message that I take, and I am sure
non-Christians who enjoy the book(s) take a different message, as,
apparently, do some Christians.


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