All I did was point to Scripture, I gave no opinion and did not engage in fear mongering. All other posts were telling him not to listen to his parents, youth minster, and degrading those who offered a different view. If he is to make up his own mind, as we all must do at some point in our life, he should consider all sides of an issue. Including the source his parents and others have used to come to their conclusion.
Still, I will ask a question of those who consider yourself Christian - How is that Scripture is not applicable to all aspects of life?
At the time witchcraft was a way of worshipping pagan Gods.
This story has nothing to do with Pagan Gods or any sort of religious worship what so ever.
On top of that, both verses say bad things about practicing witchcraft. Not reading highly fictionalized stories about "witchcraft" (Which btw looks nothing like the actual practice if Wicca.)
Under the same standard, you could not watch any movies or TV shows or read any books where any of the characters where sexually immoral in any way, got drunk, used slanderous or hateful language, where angry or selfish.
Because those things are all things we are called to avoid, reading stories about people who act like that would also be banned.
Guess that means you can't read the bible, because the bible has that in there!!! And that stuff is all true and realistic which is far worse then any fictionalized account. David a clear hero of the bible, sleeps with another man's wife and then has him murdered to cover it all up!!
Even if we give the bible an exception, the idea still holds no water. Avoid all media that involves sin. . . Thats not very smart. It creates a bubble around children to where they don't know what reality is really like. Sin is a major part of reality, and even the celibration of sin is a major part of reality.
The idea that Harry Potter is bad because it makes several faulty assumptions.
The first and most glaring is that people who read Harry Potter can't seperate reality from fiction. Considering the age group the book targets I find that to be a very faulty assumption indeed.
The second is that reading it is going to encourage people into the actual practice of Wicca. That is also not true. I have met many Christian and non-Christian readers of Harry Potter of various ages. None of them have ever become involved with the actual practice of Wicca. They all understand that Harry Potter is fiction, and that Wicca (if they even know it exists considering how few people actually practice it.) does not look anything like that.
Its Christian fear mongering using a scripture that means basically "Don't worship the Pagan Gods and don't try to combine Christianity with Paganism" and twisting it into "Harry Potter is evil"
Again under the same standard, pretty much any literature in which a person sins should then be banned because they are all mentioned in the same verse.
If you see a movie where two people have pre-marital sex, is that going to make you decide to go out and fornicate?
If you watch a TV show where a person is a
practicing homosexual, is that going to turn you into a homosexual?
If you read a book where a person using insulting language towards another person, are you going to go jump up and insult someone?
