J.K. Rowling!Existentialist

[thetrojanvabbit]

No: HPFGUIDX 179513

Geoff Bannister:
>I wondered why you wrote your last sentence "I wonder if that's why
>some Christians hate Harry Potter so much!";it seems to be something
>of a red herring. <snip>

TheTrojanVabbit replies:

It's not a red herring. My point us that people expecting an
overriding Christian theme in the books would have been expecting book
7 to define Dark Magic in moral absolutist terms, simple and
clear-cut. Instead, the lines between Light and Dark became more
blurred. To moral absolutists (and the Christianity is a dogmatic
religion), used to doing as told or else, moral relativism is a scary
and unsettling thing.


Geoff:

>JKR says that she was raised in the Church of England and held
>Christian belief until she questioned it at University but has now
>returned to believing
<snip>


Vabbit:

Have you ever heard of Christian Existentialism? Kierkegaard, Karl
Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, and many others. Perhaps she
used writings such as these to help her through her crisis of faith.

-gatesreaver, who has just had his theories bolstered by the "Major
Premises" section of the Wikipedia article on Christian Existentialsm