[the_old_crowd] Debates about HP and Witchcraft

[Kat Macfarlane]

Dear one, these are the same folks who are staging hate rallies at the funerals of Iraqi veterans (see in the latest Time) and periodically have a go at getting Huckleberry Finn banned in the schools. One of my friends was, until she very gratefully retired a year ago, a middle-school teacher in eastern Washington state, and had had regular run-ins with this mind (?) set. Like the mother who refused to let her daughter read Treasure Island because the pirates used "rough language". ("Shiver me timbers" is rough language?)

Basically, the conclusion most people I know have come to (and that includes quite a few Wiccan, whose credo is "Harm none") is that these folks simply hate anyone who does not think (?) exactly as they do, and are trying their very best to force their beliefs on the rest of us. And with the Yahoo we've got in the White House (oh, they scrubbed him and shaved him and put a suit on him, but you can still tell), they just might succeed.

--Gatta

  I'm trying to give a survey of religious controversies surrounding the HP,
  HDM and LB series, and I've run into a new HP question for you all:

  Are conservative* Christians the only people who are really worried that HP
  could promote interest in the occult? From what I have seen and read and
  from what I can google, this has been almost exclusively a concern of the
  conservative Christian subculture - which has fought quite bitterly about
  it. Everyone else has just observed the ruckus and scratched their heads.
  That's what it looks like from where I am, but is that the way things
  actually are? 

  I'm not actually aware of any progressive/liberal Christian, secular or
  otherwise-religious commentators who have voiced similar concerns (let alone
  staged book burnings ... ), but there's a heck of a lot I haven't read ...

  So am I missing anything?

  What's more: *if* that's the way things are, why are they that way? 

  - Is it that conservative Christians think occultism is a real, spiritual
  phenomenon and other people don't and hence aren't concerned?
  - Is it that cCs think occult *movements* (Wiccans, etc.) are dangerous,
  whereas other people simply don't?
  - Is it that cCs are closed to other religions whereas other people are more
  open to inter-religious dialogue?
  - Is it that cCs read differently than other people?
  - ?

  Baaaaa,

  Mike the Curious Goat
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  *whatever that means



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