[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Harry Potter the Son of God?

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 171066

Katie wrote:
> This article says she's "Episcopalian" which is definitely NOT the same 
> as Evangelical. Could someone have gotten these two "E" words mixed up? 
> Because Episcopalians are quite mainstream - as they are Anglicans in 
> the UK, and that's the official church of the UK...so I don't see where 
> she's evangelical. Most British people are Anglican, even if they are 
> lapsed or non-practicing. So...

Bart:
	There is an old saying: The Episcopal Church is notable for interfering 
with neither one's politics nor one's religion.

	I see the Christian message is based more on the so-called "High" 
Anglican Church rather than the so-called "Low" Anglican Church The low 
church, being more Calvinist in leanings, does not accept the concept of 
"free will", and one of the major themes of the series is that nobody 
starts out as good or evil; it's our choices that make us good and evil. 
I'm going to take a bit of a leap, here, because the concept of "soul" 
is not well-defined in the books, but it would appear that one's free 
will originates in one's soul. That is part of what makes the horcrux so 
terrible; if you lose a piece of your soul, you lose your ability to 
make choices. Morty has an illness which prevents him from being able to 
make choices; by making the horcruxes, he lost the chance of ever being 
cured. And what does good or evil choices get you? That's part of the 
next great adventure.

	Bart