HP religion debates

[Keith Fraser]

No: HPFGUIDX 8351

There's been a lot of brouhaha about Harry Potter being supposedly 
blasphemous or satanic because it contains magic. I think this is 
nonsense, and here's something that puts the debate into perspective 
and shows that HP is only under attack because it's popular.

In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (which I'm currently 
reading the third book of, The Amber Spyglass, the first two being 
Northern Lights and The Subtle Knife), no less weighty a subject is 
tackled than a war against GOD (the Authority), who seems to be being 
set up as a lying villain. Now, I have no problem with this idea, not 
being very religious, but if I were a devout Christian I think I 
would probably have shut the book and stopped reading at some point. 
However, I haven't heard anything about fundamentalist groups trying 
to ban this trilogy! I don't know precisely how popular it is, but I 
certainly haven't heard a murmur against it.

Something to think about.

Keith