Its witchcraft! Harry Potter pushing same-sex marriage

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Laughed hard at this part.

The wildly popular Harry Potter books, movies and characters have faced criticism for attacking the Judeo-Christian values on which the United States was built.

I see they too love fiction.
 
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When HP first came out, I found it to be an allegory to Christianity.
HP is disliked by his family (the World), who values status, wealth, pleasure, gluttony, and leisure. They tell Harry that he is nothing.

But Harry is honored in the other world. (We are princes and princesses in the eyes of God.) Harry must face HeWhoMustNotBeNamed (Satan). On his way, he meets Malfoy (dark Forces), Dumbledore always seems to know what Harry in doing, but allows him to learn on his own rather than intervene. Harry shows loyalty to friends, courage, chooses to refrain from returning Malfoy's taunts. He often must choose between doing what he really wants to (sock Malfoy in the nose), or to the right thing.

And why was Harry "saved"? Because of the deep bond of love his parents had for him. It triumphed over darkness.

He cast spells, just as we pray to God to overcome dark forces that attack us (Defense of the Dark Forces). He is able to do magic. We are able to move mountains, do miracles in God's name.

And then the Christians ran to their children, and said, "why are you reading this? This is of the devil!"
 
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harrypotter: repackaging witchcraft.Making Evil look Innocent
Hosts Robert S. McGee and Caryl Matrisciana, author and occult researcher, show Rowling's presentation of the following elements of Witchcraft:

Mother Goddess
evolution (WT?? did i miss those evoclasses in HP)
reincarnation communing with the dead and spirit world (in bible?)
seasonal nature celebrations (so much for easter, 4thof july and christmas)
sorcery (in bible)
divination (in bible)
spells (in bible)
curses (in bible.... poor snake and fig tree)
meditation (wow didnt know meditatino was evil)
occult symbology (so long cross)
black magic (bible?)
demon possession (in bible)
dark aspects of Witchcraft (ok fair enough, of course magic is used for evil in the bible too)

Wow. thats all i can say..
 
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From
harrypotter: repackaging witchcraft.Making Evil look Innocent
Hosts Robert S. McGee and Caryl Matrisciana, author and occult researcher, show Rowling's presentation of the following elements of Witchcraft:

Mother Goddess
evolution
reincarnation communing with the dead and spirit world (in bible?)
seasonal nature celebrations (so much for easter, 4thof july and christmas)
sorcery (in bible)
divination (in bible)
spells (in bible)
curses (in bible.... poor snake and fig tree)
meditation (wow didnt know meditatino was evil)
occult symbology (so long cross)
black magic (bible?)
demon possession (in bible)
dark aspects of Witchcraft (ok fair enough, of course magic is used for evil in the bible too)

Wow. thats all i can say..

And here I was going to see it just being worried about the quality of the acting and the scriptwriting. Now I'm a nervous wreck :)
 
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From
harrypotter: repackaging witchcraft.Making Evil look Innocent
Hosts Robert S. McGee and Caryl Matrisciana, author and occult researcher, show Rowling's presentation of the following elements of Witchcraft:

Mother Goddess
evolution
reincarnation communing with the dead and spirit world (in bible?)
seasonal nature celebrations (so much for easter, 4thof july and christmas)
sorcery (in bible)
divination (in bible)
spells (in bible)
curses (in bible.... poor snake and fig tree)
meditation (wow didnt know meditatino was evil)
occult symbology (so long cross)
black magic (bible?)
demon possession (in bible)
dark aspects of Witchcraft (ok fair enough, of course magic is used for evil in the bible too)

Wow. thats all i can say..

What !!! Evolution is Witchcraft :D :D :D :D
 
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I haven't read all the way to the current book. I thought Dumbledore was dead. Doesn't his sexual orientation seem a bit irrelevant then?

sshhhhh that's a spoiler. Just read the book.

i will say this. the last book deals alot with Dumbledore past, and if the writer had not said after the fact that he was gay, I probably would not have made the connection, and i can usually see that stuff coming a mile away.
 
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sshhhhh that's a spoiler. Just read the book.

i will say this. the last book deals alot with Dumbledore past, and if the writer had not said after the fact that he was gay, I probably would not have made the connection, and i can usually see that stuff coming a mile away.

But it does makes Dumbledore's behavior in the past make more sense - he was in love with Grindelwald so he was more apt to follow his ideas. It's not necessary to his back story, but adds some additional context.
 
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actually it was a comment on society as a whole. We are prone to be led about by the nose. Why is Transformers so popular?

Because it is Giant robot combat with EPIC-quality special effects.

Media hype.

Yes, the media hypes it's giant robot combat with EPIC-quality special effects. If the public interest in giant robot combat with EPIC-quality special effects was absent, there'd be no media coverage.

Why is the jackson funeral such deal...

Because he was a major celebrity, both as a musician, and as a tabloid story-magnet...

because the medai hyped it like none of the other recent deaths

...were any of the others who died a bigger celebrity than Michael Jackson? Is there any celebrity bigger than Michael Jackson?

I think you are conflating media hype with simple media coverage of the stories and people that are of greatest interest to the broadest audience, here.
 
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Honestly, does it matter? It is a book.

OH NO! DON'T LET HARRY POTTER TALK ABOUT FLYING ON BROOM STICKS EITHER! KIDS WILL BE JUMPING OFF THE ROOF! DON'T LET HIM TALK ABOUT PLATFORM 9 3\4, KIDS WILL BE WALKING INTO WALLS!

There's so many much more important topics in life than this.
 
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Honestly, does it matter? It is a book.

OH NO! DON'T LET HARRY POTTER TALK ABOUT FLYING ON BROOM STICKS EITHER! KIDS WILL BE JUMPING OFF THE ROOF! DON'T LET HIM TALK ABOUT PLATFORM 9 3\4, KIDS WILL BE WALKING INTO WALLS!

There's so many much more important topics in life than this.

And if some fundy's kids are up on the roof jumping off onto broomsticks, they are probably helping out the gene pool.
 
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jumped off roofs and road beds downs stairs.. (parents hated that.)

LOL yep, and I didn't need a movie to encourage me....just natural boyhood testing of yourself
 
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LOL yep, and I didn't need a movie to encourage me....just natural boyhood testing of yourself
I wasn't testing myself, though. I was testing Hefty lawn and garden bags. After some rigorous tests I can truthfully claim they do not function very well as a parachute at a height of about 15 feet.
 
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I wasn't testing myself, though. I was testing Hefty lawn and garden bags. After some rigorous tests I can truthfully claim they do not function very well as a parachute at a height of about 15 feet.


I tried that with pillow cases. Didn't work out too well for me either!
 
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