[HPforGrownups] Re: The Role of Religion in the Potterverse was Magical Latin

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 186162

> Shelley:
> I think she planned that Harry would need to sacrifice
>> himself. No other religion, save Christianity, has some Savior dying and
>> then raising from the dead.
>
> Magpie:
> I don't think that story was very uncommon at the time Christianity 
> started, actually. Saviors dying and then raising from the dead for 
> humanity etc.--I think Christianty was one of many cults with that idea.

Shelley:
Could you, for the sake of this argument (Harry Potter having a specifically 
"Christian" theme, or just a general "religious" theme), point out, in your 
words, which other cults have the idea of a Savior dying and then raising 
from the dead? It is your premise then that only Christianity has survived 
with that theme, that the other cults which had that theme have melted into 
obscurity so that in today's time we would only recognize Christianity as 
having a resurrected Savior? Becuase you really can prove that other 
religions have a Savior-dead-risen from the dead theme, then you would be 
adding weight to No.Limberger's argument that it's just a "religious" 
framework and not a specifically "Christian" one.