[the_old_crowd] Re: Manifesto?

[Charme]

>ewe2 said:

> My apologies to non-evolutionists, but this smacks of "intelligent 
> design". Or
> an intelligent design with which LL is apparently in agreement with. The
> angle, Charme, for LL & Co. is this: they can't ignore it, so instead of
> coming straight out with their agenda and looking like the bad guy, they 
> argue
> against JKR using what they claim are her views on her books. I've said
> earlier that it wasn't a good idea for JKR to invoke Christian myth in
> connection with the ultimate themes of the Potterverse, and well, there's 
> your
> results. LL would just love to burn the books because of their popularity, 
> but
> needs an excuse first, and he hopes JKR will give him one. When the series
> finishes I suspect there will be a retrospective damning; they are 
> practically
> hovering in readiness out there.
>

Charme now:

And here I was <cough> <cough> trying to be politically correct even by 
asking the question. ;) I didn't want to invoke anyone's wrath in this 
group, hence why I asked rather than, shall we say, speculated. I can only 
say I am relieved reading your post.

I think you're right, BTW, WRT to your comments comparing their "attitudes" 
to the intelligent design concept.  I am in a unique, and for me unenviable, 
position of having first hand knowledge of this with my own high school alma 
mater: the school system I graduated from is now, as of January of this 
year, the first public school system (with much input from the avowed 
religious community) in the US to mandate the mention of intelligent design 
in the biology curriculm in conjunction with evolutionary theory - along 
with adding 68 copies of the ID book "Of Pandas and People" to the school 
library. How's this relate to your post?  The same community leaders (and 
board members) make the exact *same* almost smug arguments I see from LL 
about Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter - and it's been an upswell since 
the HPB release date was announced.

I'll make ya bet of firewhiskey the whole fire-and-brimstone condemnation 
begins in earnest on July 16 and  won't delay until the septology is 
complete. Why wait for an excuse - they think they already have one, they're 
just waiting for the best media opportunity to make it a sweeping wave of 
book burnings and morality laced preaching.

Charme, who truly doesn't want to offend those of you who believe in ID, but 
asks that you understand that I disagree and consider it a seperate 
conversation/discussion.