Religion

[Melanie]

No: HPFGUIDX 78864

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "say543" wrote:
> Since religion is basically nonexistent in HP, how was there a St.
> Mungo and a Fat Friar? After all, God's miracles wouldn't be too
> impressive if you could do the same thing yourself.

If you read Alan Jacobs' article in First Things 
(www.firstthings.com -- search for "harry potter"), he makes the 
point convincingly that magic in the HPverse is not a religion, but a 
science. This seems right to me. Magic is a secular pursuit. 
Therefore I would imagine there are Christian wizards, Muslim 
wizards, atheist wizards, etc.

Really the wizarding world is more like an ethnic group than a 
religious one. For that reason I've wondered (as Golly mentioned) 
whether there might be wizarding denominations of Christianity, just 
as we have different ethnic churches in the Muggle world (ie, Korean, 
African, Lebanese, etc.). Who knows?

Melanie