Religion in the Potterverse

[random_monkey0_0]

No: HPFGUIDX 40580

bluesqueak:
> 
> 'So', the wizarding Christian would go, 'have I invoked a diabolical 
> pact? Well, not as far as I know. I was born with my powers. I know 
> this because I've displayed them since childhood (PS/SS p. 47 'Not a 
> wizard, eh? Never made things happen...'). That sounds more like a 
> gift from God than a pact with the Devil. And to use magic to kill, 
> or injure, or raise the dead sounds awfully like the Dark Arts to 
me. 
> So if I use only my inborn powers, and avoid using them to do 
immoral 
> things like killing people, or making them love someone against 
their 
> will, then really, there is no problem with me being a Christian'.

Wahah! A chance to expound my theories! This is all based on Christian 
doctrine.

Being a witch or wizard and being a Christian are not mutually 
exclusive. God creates all people, and God gives people gifts. If a 
person has magic powers, they have to come from God. So why would God 
create people who have to be destroyed? He doesn't. I think that that 
passage refers to people who practice things like Wicca; the Bible 
clearly does not support idol worship or polytheism. I also think, 
like Bluesqueak said, that witchcraft was believed to be powers given 
by Satan. People who have magic powers, and use them to the glory of 
God, are fine. 

It is debatable whether or not the Hogwart's students use their powers 
to the glory of God, but the fact remains that their powers are 
inborn, and therefore from God, according to Christian doctrine. 

And if that's not enough, how about the fact that it doesn't matter 
what religion the characters are, since they don't exist and can never 
really die?


The Random Monkey, who can't think of a good tagline...