Alchemy revisited: OOP prediction confirmed

[sleepingblyx]

No: HPFGUIDX 80106

Major snipage here:
 JKR has managed to move 
> past the specificity of any 
> particular religion and tapped 
> directly into the humanity that we 
> all seem to have *in common* - this 
> is no mean feat and is surely part 
> of her appeal across the globe.
> 
> I really must protest any attempt to 
> tie her to one and only one 
> religion.  If this is not what Geoff 
> is intimating, then I hope he will 
> explain further.
> 
> Petra

Short of asking for an, "Amen!" I am just going to say that I agree. 

However, I have a specific question-- we know J.K.R. likes to read, 
and I was sorting through the interviews, but is there any canon to 
suspect that she has actually even read the bible, or is a practicing 
Christian in the first place? Her more recent interviews seem to lead 
to the fact that she would be agnostic or even athiest (something 
about not really believing in any kind of magic, and that she wishes 
she could). 

I could understand her towing the line for controversy's sake, and it 
really isn't anyone's buisness who she is praying to, but to know 
might make this conversation move a bit along. It would be hard for 
me to buy that she uses the bible as a model if she had never even 
read it, or wasn't an actual in depth-quote-the-scripture-at-will 
type. You can't exactly divine the greater themes if you have just 
read about Noah once, and maybe the birth of Jesus twice during the 
holidays.

Which would lend back to greater truths: simple archetypes as old as 
time. Even the Bible borrowed from this place and that. Power, fear, 
love, hope.... you can't exactly credit thier origin in "liturature" 
unless you get your own time turner and find some oral history that 
is long gone.

Blyx