**Warning to Parents** Harry Potter: Politically-Correct Paganism

I have also heard of one parent whose child was seeking out Wicca info on the internet - even saying her religion was Wicca - as a result of the Harry Potter phenomenon. I am sure there are many, many more children like this as the Harry Potter books grow darker and darker and this book grows ever more popular.

We cannot overlook the fact that witchcraft and sorcery are now being promoted to our children as acceptable. In fact, it is even encouraged. Of course, we Christians know these things are totally contrary to what God says in the Bible.

I pray Jesus comes quickly, because the deception is growing so intense and so quickly as to deceive the very elect, IF that were possible...keep watching and testing the spirits...God bless

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Harry Potter: Politically-Correct Paganism
By Jan Markell
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/secure/cwnetwork/article.php?ArticleID=139

Chaos reigned in my home town July 16 at midnight. Little kids roamed the streets in ecstasy as they had just purchased the new Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Most were dressed like witches and wizards. They are addicted, but not to righteousness. And they just want to be like Harry and, if possible, attend Hogwarts' School of Witchcraft. When told it doesn't really exist, they are heartbroken.

Okay, so J.K. Rowlings is the second richest woman in England only preceded by the Queen because she can spin a good fantasy tale. There are "Christian Potter advocates" out there who will tell you that you can find God in Harry Potter. Entire denominations have endorsed him and respected Christian magazines as well. I have only a few paragraphs to persuade you differently so here goes.

Harry Potter is a wizard. Excuse me, but how many times does the Bible warn of us wizards, witches, witchcraft, sorcery, spells, incantations, and more? Aren't Christians to have no fellowship with darkness? (II Cor. 6:14-17) Rowlings says each book is getting darker and darker and she is right. He and his pals actually engage in between 75 and 100 practices forbidden in the Bible. Some are pretty gross, in fact. It's pretty tough to think about anything, "true, honorable, lovely, of good report, etc." as it says in Philippians 4:8 when one is focused on Potter gimmicks. He's almost always involved in occultic-type things including drinking blood and talking to the dead (necromancy). Oh, and Harry's "shed blood" has magical powers. Shouldn't that be a huge red flag?

You may be saying, "But this is a struggle of good vs. evil, so what do you expect?" You're right. It's "good" wizards and sorcerers battling "bad" wizards and sorcerers and in the end who wins--wizards and sorcerers! Christian Potter advocates need to grasp that this is not the way the Kingdom of God works. We want righteousness and Godliness to win, and in the end, it does! Read the last chapter of the Bible. And do you think that J.K. Rowlings, who doesn't understand the Bible any more than I understand the engine of my car or the guts of my computer, actually intended this to have true spiritual overtones?

So the Potter plot may be fantasy/fiction, but the setting and characters promote an occult-based worldview that kids accept as truth in normal life. What's cool in Harry's life is cool in their world, but Harry's world is surrounded and characterized by evil. Standards of behavior are distorted. Good and evil are just how you perceive it (situation ethics). There are no absolutes which is just what our post-modern culture needs. Harry is often rewarded for doing evil such as when he lies and cheats. Aren't there about a dozen red flags by now?

The Potter books and movies cleverly mask the evil concepts by presenting evil in a fantastic and alluring child's world. The biblically illiterate are fooled, and how sad when biblically literate parents are fooled and are just happy that finally their kids are reading.

Since organizations like the Pagan Federation of England state that they are recruiting hundreds of inquiring kids thanks to Potter, shouldn't that be a storm warning? In that hundreds of witchcraft Web sites are linked to Potter Web sites, does that sound an alarm?

Mysticism and love of the supernatural are thriving today even in some churches. Thus, the wonderfully mystical and emotionally awesome experience of Harry Potter fit right in. Today a lot of people crave the supernatural as well as "experiences" and even "signs and wonders." We're just far enough into the last days' apostasy so that it's actually spun out of control. J.K. Rowlings timed things well.

According to Gallup, at least one third of kids under age 18 have read a Harry Potter book or seen a movie. No, it won't lead every kid down the primrose path of witchcraft and Satanism but why should we give the devil an inch when he will want a yard or even a mile? This is a hugely serious matter. In the Bible, witchcraft was so forbidden that those who practiced it were frequently executed.

I have had some so-called "Christian Potter advocates" on my radio program. One told me that Jesus would use Potter as parables for children if He were around today, or would have in His day. I'm sorry, but Harry Potter is a different gospel. Deception and delusion abound here. He is a product of evil being called good (Isaiah 5:20). If Potter products are tools for the Kingdom, I have to ask, which Kingdom? Since author J.K. Rowlings promised to make each episode darker (and has done so), I hardly think she had in mind the Kingdom of God.

(Jan Markell is founder and president of Olive Tree Ministries, Inc. She has authored eight Christian books with the major Christian publishing houses. She has a talk radio program out of Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN heard in other parts of the country as well. For more information, her e-alert sign-up, or free, print newsletter, visit her Web site, www.olivetreeviews.org.)

Harry Potter cannot be compared to Lord of the Rings or any other book though. Harry Potter is a wizard; a magician. We have "good magic" and "bad magic" throughout the book. But it's all magic! That's the point. It gives people the message that we can mix good and evil, and that "good magic" is perfectly acceptable. Harry is a "good wizard," which is a misnomer. He has become the hero to millions of kids around the globe. But the Bible says ALL wizardry, magic, and sorcery is NOT to be practiced among His people!!

It seems this book has really deceived the masses. In the book, "muggles" are non-magical people who are seen as narrow, mean, and ignorant. Thus, we have already set up the perfect conditions for training the children that the occult is acceptable, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just plain ignorant. You seriously don't see that children are already believing this? Most parents are unaware of this because their children don't communicate it per se. It is internalized in the very formative years and carried on throughout life.

The Bible condemns us having anything to do with witchcraft, magic, sorcery, and the like. So why should we support a book that is doing just that? It isn't a book of spells, no...but nonetheless it is teaching our Christian children that it's okay to mix good and evil, and that dabbling in the occult is perfectly acceptable.

Is THIS the message we want to teach our children? Or do we want them to know that ALL magic and wizardry is wrong because God says it is?

Linnis said:

When did Chirstianity become about ignoring God given commen sense?

Children are going to see things everyday that is wrong or you don't agree with. Who better to teach them from right or wrong, real or fake than their parents. Hiding them from all the bad things will just make them ignorant and more people who want bad for them will more easily be able to trick them into it.

Educating your children is the way to protecting them from the bad things in the world, not hiding from it.

Why is it I've never seen you on the parenting board until you have this post?

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So we should accept evil and that's okay? We should allow our children to accept evil and that's okay, because they see it all the time anyway? We should not protect our children from evil?

Christianity is not simply about common sense. It's about reading the Bible and living by God's Word. It is how we Christians are supposed to live. And if God's Word tells us that witchcraft, sorcery, and magic are evil and we need to avoid it at all costs, why shouldn't we take that seriously?

Soon something worse will overtake Harry Potter. It always does. But so many Christians are like frogs in boiling water. It's an overused analogy, I know, but true. The water heats up so slowly, the frog doesn't know what's going on until it's too late to jump out. It is much the same with Christians today. We are so quick to accept, but have no idea that one thing leads to another, and then one day we have all out apostasy. At what point do we draw the line and say ENOUGH is ENOUGH? At what point do we call a spade a spade? I believe that time is NOW.

simi said:

JRR TOLKIEN was a Christian!
alot of LOTR can be compared to Christianity and the world as it is today. There is a book out called "the gospel according to JRR Tolkien" I havent read it but i am going to buy it and check it out.

As for Harry Potter is disgusts me that it was the fastest selling, most anticipated book. I have seen the movies and i can really understand why some kids want to lean wicca and stuff like that. I get eeery feelings when i watch the movies and it really opens doors to people.

I have worked in a mental health ward and what concerns me was one patient was having hallucinations abotu witches and demons. I would pray for him then he would return to normal. The staff there had no idea i was praying for him and were baffled by the irregularity of his "hallucinations"

My point with that was, he was a harry potter reader, among other things and i just feel strongly that this book could be taken seriously by these kids and it opens doors for satan to take hold of some part of their life. The bible clearly states that we shuold stay away from ALL satanic activities (witchcraft, sorcery, dealing with evil spirits). When people get involved in this it is jsut shocking.

1. they are joining the direct forces against God
2. They become a servant for the king of teh dead and its just soooo sad.

Okay im passioate about this but i have seen the effects taht just having an "animalia" book in the house has on a kid, let alone them reading this stuff. (in case you dont know animalia books ahve occult symbols, demons and everything else drawn into each page...LOOK HARD)

this stuff is turning kids away from God and its just one of Satans tools to try and take over us. *sigh* will you let satan corrupt your children and the generations to come?

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Thank you for that post, simi!