Wow

[lesley]

No: HPFGUIDX 182134

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Lesley,
> > I think if I had read a lot of these post's before reading the
> book's I would never have picked them up after the amount of 
religious
> comment's and references that have been made about them.
> > I didn't see any religious messages in any of the book's and am
> amazed at the amount of comment's that say there were.
> > I also read the book's because I liked them and have no interest 
in 
> > what JKR's religion is.

justcarol

> If we refuse to read a book by a Christian author, we'll be 
depriving
> ourselves of a large segment of Western literature. Best avoid
> everyone from Chaucer to Dickens, not to mention Tolkien, and a 
great
> many other authors as well.
> 
> Carol, politely suggesting that you try another thread or examine 
old
> posts to see the variety of topics that have been discussed on this
> list, the vast majority of which have nothing to do with religion
>
Lesley
I'm sorry, I think you misunderstood me, probably my fault, I am 
actually a christian myself and my beliefs are probably very similar 
to JKR's, I didn't mean I wouldn't read a book by a christian author, 
or author's by any other religions and I have read many of the 
topic's raised in this forum, I agree that as JKR is a christian 
herself may have used her beliefs in her book's and that has 
determined how the story's have played out, I just didn't see it.
When I read a book about wizards and giants etc I don't expect to be 
smothered by lot's of religious views and I wasn't, so I was suprised 
other people were. There was a few week's ago, several pages of posts 
about Kings Cross for example that bored me silly, apologies to 
everyone I just offended, and perhaps I am to stupid to appreciate 
these posts but they are the ones that would have put me off reading 
the books as I would have expected the books to be full of Blah after 
reading them.
Lesley, with hopes of not going to hell.