Is Harry Potter the Son of God?
Katie
anigrrrl2 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 2 17:10:05 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 171133
> Geoff:<<<<<<HUGEMUGEOUS SNIPPAGE>>>>
> Katie,
> feeling frustrated that people tend to bring the discussion round
> to religion every few months.
>
> Geoff:
> That is strange. I would have thought that as a Catholic, prepared
> to express your views as you did above, you would have wanted to
> see faith expressed in discussion.
>
<<<<more snippage>>>>
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katie responds: The reason I don't want to discuss faith/religion
here is because I don't feel that it has any bearing on HP. I don't
have a problem with religion in general, and I have been fascinated
by many different religions. I went to 12 years of Catholic school
and was raised Catholic (although never baptised, I must say), and I
consider myself a Catholic.
However, I think HP is NOT a religious work and it definitly doesn't
need religion to make it meaningful. There are all kinds of faith,
and the most stressed kind of faith in HP is faith in oneself and
one's friends. HP is menaingful and profound in a philosophical and
social context, without using religion, and I think it's frustrating
to see the conversation brought back to religion because I don't
feel the story is LACKING anything. Why do we HAVE to give it a
religious meaning? It's not lacking a meaning or a profundity. I
just think forcing religion down the proverbial throat of the books
diminishes the actual story, which does not lack in meaning. Sorry
I've been a bit redundant - I'm at work and trying to think too
hard. KATIE
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