[HPforGrownups] Re: Danger in designating an "Other" / Slytherins / DH as Christian Allegory

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 174027

BetsyHp:
>>>Instead we're left with this weird ending where Slytherins *are* 
evil, but we're going to have them stick around anyway because... 
it's nice to have people to pound when you're in a bad mood? 
Honestly, I don't know what JKR was thinking with this one.<<<


Marion:
I'm thinking of St.Augustine of Hippo here. One of the Church Fathers. Lived from 354 to 430 AD. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of Reformation. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war.
Augustine's theological views in the early middle era were revolutionary, perhaps none so much as his clear formulation of the doctrine of Original Sin that has substantially influenced Catholic theology.

His idea of predestination rests on the assertion that God has foreseen, from time immemorial, all the choices every person who would ever live on Earth would make, and whether they would cooperate with Grace or not. The number of the people God knows would be saved are the elect, the number who God knows will not be saved are the reprobate. God has chosen the elect certainly and gratuitously, without any previous merit (ante merita) on their part.

Augustine argued that God had allowed the Jews to survive as a warning to Christians, thus they were to be permitted to dwell in Christian lands. Augustine further argued that the Jews would be converted at the end of time.

Scary, no?



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