Are Democrats trying to cancel Harry Potter?

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Don't forget D&D.

I've been playing D&D for 41 years. So far my only addictions was Mountain Dew and Doritos back in the 1980s. The best thing to come out of that was a lifetime love of fantasy, imagination, story telling, and close friends.
 
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Some of it wants to be, but it’s mostly just hilarious. I grew up with the likes of Megadeth and Iron Maiden being considered Heavy Metal and satanic. Now it’s just funny and cheesy. Some of the Scandinavian stuff, the real Death Metal is a lot darker, but even then it’s basically just young guys trying to be edgy.

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Perhaps you can tell me about all the occult involvement that you've had that enables you to make such a judgement?
Your view of Harry Potter is fatuous nonsense. I don't know for certain how you arrived at such an ill-informed position, but clearly not from the actual evidence. (You admit to having seen only brief scenes, for which you have zero context, and seemingly you have read absolutely nothing of the books themselves.)
My involvement with the occult was strictly limited to extensive reading of occult literature, lengthy conversations over a six year period with a practicing medium and experiments with clairvoyance, ouija board, etc. However, none of that was relevant to my judgement on your HP views. See below:
I'm English. I grew up with the occult. I know it when I see it.
And there you have it. The occult in the UK is a mix of con-artists, fairground attractions and sad, deluded, lower-middle class non-entities who think they have some supernatural gift. Clairvoyance, communicating with spirits and the like is nonsense. That you seem to think it has something of real (evil) substance is full justificaiton for refuting your claims about Harry Potter.
 
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Some of it wants to be, but it’s mostly just hilarious. I grew up with the likes of Megadeth and Iron Maiden being considered Heavy Metal and satanic. Now it’s just funny and cheesy. Some of the Scandinavian stuff, the real Death Metal is a lot darker, but even then it’s basically just young guys trying to be edgy.

Some of it is actually Christian, even, or at least Biblical. For example, Metallica's "Creeping Death" is about the plagues of Egypt in Exodus. If you look at the lyrics, it's pretty much just a recounting of the story of the tenth plague.
 
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Children and young adults who read the series learn about demons,
That don’t exist.

werewolves and other monstrous creatures,
That don’t exist.

magic, spell casting,
That doesn’t exist

levitation,
Which doesn’t exist.

animal sacrifices,
Which exists, but doesn’t need Harry Potter to be explained.

astral projection,
Doesn’t exist.

crystal gazing
Exists, but boring and pointless.

and communing with dead souls.

Doesn’t happen.
 
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Most are blind to the fact that the occult is the worship of Satan and his demons.

The problem with these types of claims is that they cut both ways. One can easily claim that Christians have been duped into the worship of Satan and his demons. Heck, I've seen lots of Christians accuse other Christians of just that.

At the of the day, maybe everyone is worshipping the devil. How would anyone even know?
 
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Your view of Harry Potter is fatuous nonsense. I don't know for certain how you arrived at such an ill-informed position, but clearly not from the actual evidence. (You admit to having seen only brief scenes, for which you have zero context, and seemingly you have read absolutely nothing of the books themselves.)
My involvement with the occult was strictly limited to extensive reading of occult literature, lengthy conversations over a six year period with a practicing medium and experiments with clairvoyance, ouija board, etc. However, none of that was relevant to my judgement on your HP views. See below:
And there you have it. The occult in the UK is a mix of con-artists, fairground attractions and sad, deluded, lower-middle class non-entities who think they have some supernatural gift. Clairvoyance, communicating with spirits and the like is nonsense. That you seem to think it has something of real (evil) substance is full justificaiton for refuting your claims about Harry Potter.
You are right to some extent. There are plenty of charlatans trading on people's gullibility. Underneath all that there is the real thing. Harry Potter is Satan's enticement to get people interested in the real thing. It is way more prevalent than you imagine. I had psychic powers myself. I'm not proud of that and I know now that it was evil. I dislike talking about details as I don't want to glorify the occult in any way.
 
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The problem with these types of claims is that they cut both ways. One can easily claim that Christians have been duped into the worship of Satan and his demons. Heck, I've seen lots of Christians accuse other Christians of just that.

At the of the day, maybe everyone is worshipping the devil. How would anyone even know?
In a sense they are. The Bible states that the whole world is in the control of Satan. It has been so since Adam sold out to Satan in the garden of Eden. You don't agree? Watch the news. It should change your mind.
 
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In a sense they are. The Bible states that the whole world is in the control of Satan. It has been so since Adam sold out to Satan in the garden of Eden. You don't agree? Watch the news. It should change your mind.
Thats probably the worst way to get an accurate sense of the real character of the world.
 
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"Where they start with burning books they finish by burning people."

i have no idea where I took that up. I might even have thought that myself, but i always found it quite accurate.
That is a straw man for burning one's own books. (And you know it, too.)
 
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Semper-Fi said: ↑
Children and young adults who read the series learn about demons,

That don’t exist.

According to Christ and the Bible, demons are real.
 
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Semper-Fi said: ↑
Children and young adults who read the series learn about demons,



According to Christ and the Bible, demons are real.

Reading the Bible, children and young adults learn about demons. Ban the Bible!
 
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Reading the Bible, children and young adults
learn about demons. Ban the Bible!

The Bible tells us how to [defend against] witchcraft
and demons, not to [learn how] to be like one.


Ephesians 6:11 (KJV)
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
 
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