[HPforGrownups] Re: Anti-Potter groups

[B.C. French]

No: HPFGUIDX 1446

At 8:10 PM +0000 9/14/00, Kelley wrote:
>
>--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, hgiammarco at h... wrote:
>>  Just looking around today, and I noticed quite a few religious
>>  affiliated Potter hate groups. Can anyone tell me what people of
>>  religious groups find so threatening about the series? I went into
>>  some of the sights to find out, but they were basically pulling at
>>  threads. I am still at a loss, I'm afraid.
>>  Helena
>
>The best I can figure, people have the image of witches, etc., in the
>old-fashioned sense.  Dark, evil, eating children, fairy-tale stuff. 
>They lump this image in with devil-worship, voodoo, vampirism, and so
>forth.  All they see is:  BAD.  They don't have first hand knowledge
>of this, just folklore and pop culture ideas.


"Thou shall not suffer a witch to live." I don't remember exactly 
what chapter and verse of the Bible that comes from, but it's in 
there. Probably Leviticus.

...Barb
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