[HPforGrownups] anti Harry Potter

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 1600

At 12:05 AM 9/17/00 -0400, Schlobin at aol.com wrote:
>Many Christians notice that Harry Potter is not evil, but rather is the
>antithesis of evil, and find that the lessons of love, friendship, loyalty,
>fighting against injustice are God's fight and therefore moral, and therefore
>appropriate for children.

The Harry-haters can't see the wood for the trees -- It's a little like
Louisa May Alcott -- Goddess bless her! -- censuring Huck Finn because
he smoked, sweared, and didn't go to church, and not seeing that he is
a brave hero, in his own way fighting one of the things she most loathed --
slavery.

>I'm a pagan, and a witch. A real one. I don't work evil, I don't hurt people,
>I don't torture or maim or sacrifice, and I don't work evil magic.

I'm a Pagan as well, and I am learning how hard it is to fight other people's
prejudices... And the media is no help at all, with _Blair Witch Project_
most recently, and such movie "classics" as _Rosemary's Baby_, possibly the
worst movie ever made (Even _Attack of the Killer Tomatos_ isn't a two-hour
orgy of lies about an entire religious group!)...

>The origins of Christmas/Yule were of course pagan as are all the Christian
>holidays. Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate any holidays for this reason...

I once knew a Jehovah's Witness, and I wondered why she wouldn't
celebrate Christmas...

Blessed Be!



                                                 -- Dave