[HPforGrownups] Re: Books burnt in Germany too!!

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 15569

At 11:48 AM 3/29/01 +0000, catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk wrote:
>They may not be fundamentally Christian in
>perspective, but they cover the same issues of good/evil,
>right/wrong, and I would go further and say that perhaps they cover
>the grey areas in a much more realistic way.   Perhaps if JKR taught
>theology at a dusty old Oxford (or was it Cambridge?) College, then
>her work would be viewed differently.

I stand by my theory that the "Satanism/Blasphemy" is not what
really disturbs these guys...  It's the assertion in these books
that "It's the choices we make that shows who we are," and the
advocacy of defying authority when that authority is in the
wrong.  Both of these are concepts that undermine the church's
control of its members.  It's the same issue as with the
church's persecution of Galileo -- They didn't *really* give
a damn whether the Earth was at the center of the universe
or moved around the sun.  What really got under their skin was
that this "barmy old codger" :) was going around suggesting that
the chuch fathers should not necessarily be believed and obeyed
at all times without question.

>PS. My friend doesn't believe evolution or that dinosaurs existed
>either - church doctrine again.  Why???!

This is really funny since even most Creationists concede that dinosaurs
*must* have existed... They just say they never evolved from lower forms
and must have lived not millions of years ago but in some epoch since God
created the world starting on October 26, 4004 BC at 9 AM (They still
won't say whether that was Eastern, Central, or Pacific time). :)



                                                 -- Dave