[HPforGrownups] Re: _Harry Potter and the Bible_

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 17485

At 09:52 PM 4/22/01 -0500, Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer wrote:
>I was hoping someone would report in on whether this book was trash or
>at least worth reading for an intellectual exercise.

It is worth reading for the intellectual excercise of seeing how many
logical fallicies one can spot.

>I'd been toying with ordering it (doesn't
>it say something that the brick & mortar bookstores don't carry it
>in-stock .... will only "special -order" it?  At least that's the case
>in Houston, and I imagine that it's true elsewhere if true in Texas,
>home of the Bible Belt).

I'll send you my copy when I'm finished with it.  (I think the less money
that actually goes to the author, the better.)

>Dave -- please write a review over on Amazon as the "good" reviews were
>outweighing the "this is a load of garbage" reviews the last time I
>checked.

I will -- And I will also point out some of his fallacies as well.

>Have you checked out the articles on the HP Culture & Religion site?
>Here's the URL:
>
>http://www.cesnur.org/recens/potter_00.htm

Thanks -- This helps a lot.

Another tidbit from the book: He says that Hagrid is immoral
because he kept an illegal dragon and implies that if Harry
were a decent God-fearing Christian he would have turned
Hagrid in.  (Paging Barty Crouch, Sr.!)



                                                 -- Dave