[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry Potter and the Bible

[Pam Hugonnet]

No: HPFGUIDX 17629



rabanesss at yahoo.com wrote:
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Mr. Abanes and Members of this group:

    I, like many others on this list, was very interested at the
beginning of this discussion about the potential "conflicts" between the
Harry Potter series and some of the more fundamental Christian tenets.
I welcomed Mr. Abanes presence in this group and even looked forward to
what I had hope might be some interesting intellectual and academic
argument between parties with many differing viewpoints.   However, I am
seriously disappointed with how this has turned out.  Unfortunately, it
has degenerated into a round of vicious attacks, defensiveness,
sarcastic criticism and pseudo intellectualism.  I believe also that Mr.
Abanes is at fault for the nasty turn in this discussion.   Mr. Abanes,
you asked for courtesy and an academic approach to the evaluation of the
tenets put forward in your books; however, you respond to inquiries with
an ever escalating barrage of sarcasm and insult, all the while avoiding
any real substantive answers that might further dialogue.  You seem to
pleased that you are able to "refute" any arguments by resorting to
flimsy solipsism and personal attack.  I must come to the conclusion
that your motives and aims are other than those that you  initially
presented in joining this group.  I believe that you have come simply to
proselytize.  I have had it with your false modesty and your smug
superiority clothed in the rags of Christian morality.  You are a troll
and should henceforth be treated as such.  I hereby place you in a kill
file.

Pamela Barrigher Hugonnet, Ph.D.
drpam