Harry and Christ (Was Re: veil/Ddore's cowardice? (longish)

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No: HPFGUIDX 78090


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "urghiggi" <urghiggi at y...> 
> wrote:
> >And yet the LOTR books -- taken strictly on 
> > their own terms, without the whole "first age" theological back 
> story -- are 
> > pretty much universally acknowledged to be profoundly religious in 
> terms of 
> > their prescriptions for right actions, and especially in their 
> exploration of the 
> > theme of sacrificial love that benefits others. 
> > urghiggi, Chgo
> 


I think it more accurate to say that they have been *interpreted* as
profoundly religious.

It's quite possible to do the same to The Epic of Gilgamesh (written
about 3000BC) and Beowolf (pagan and from the Dark Ages).

Anyone with a personal philosphy to expound can offer examples
supporting that philosophy from just about anything. What does bother
me is when claims are made that their accepted beliefs of what is moral
behaviour is only valid when practiced by the adherents to their code.

This is plainly rubbish. Self sacrifice for the benefit of others, defence 
of the weak, resisting evil, etc. has a history going back as far as
historians can dig.

I hope that Harry does have a moral code, but that could be very
different to submission to a religious orthodoxy.

Kneasy