I heard this but it seems simply to stupid to be true, is it?
2007-02-14 05:41:20 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Why would we? He is a make believe character for little kids.
O yea! just like that Jesus bloke in that other book of fantasy...what was it called???
Oh yes "the Bible"
2007-02-14 05:54:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter is fantasy and it is imaginative. The good wins out over the evil. The people who read it and have any sense understand this. I have yet to see my niece or nephew jump on a broomstick and launch themselves from the rooftop of their house! Why you might ask, well, it's because they are intelligent enough to understand that the books a fictitious and that it is fantasy.Now, if I caught my niece with a Ouija board that would be a whole other ball game.
2007-02-15 00:33:08 · answer #2 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love harry potter I have all the books and can't wait to read the next one. I believe in god. if there are some religious people whom do disaprove of harry potter its because the books talk about magic witch craft and witchies. some religious people think witch craft is the work of the devil. I don't have a problem with it but I hope that answer your question.
2007-02-14 13:51:15 · answer #3 · answered by b1uecee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read an article in the newspaper once, about a year ago, which said that the Pope called the Harry Potter books "evil." What rubbish!
2007-02-14 14:12:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've heard it on the TV...these words are from my favourite cartoon: The Simpsons. As far as I'm a Christian and I read Harry Potter I can easily say it isn't true.
2007-02-14 13:50:52 · answer #5 · answered by Strawberry Cheesecake 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prime Example - She's been fighting to have HP banned for about four years now.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=408490&in_page_id=1811l
Ban Harry Potter or face more school shootings'
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Laura Mallory says the Harry Potter books promote evil
A woman who maintains that the Harry Potter books are an attempt to teach children witchcraft is pushing for the second time to have them banned from school libraries.
Laura Mallory, a mother of four from the Atlanta suburb of Loganville, told a Georgia Board of Education officer that the books by British author J.K. Rowling, sought to indoctrinate children as Wiccans, or practitioners of religious witchcraft.
Referring to the recent rash of deadly assaults at schools, Mallory said books that promote evil - as she claims the Potter ones do - help foster the kind of culture where school shootings happen.
That would not happen if students instead read the Bible, Mallory said.
She added that the books were harmful to children who are unable to differentiate between reality and fantasy.
The children, she said, try to imitate Harry Potter and cast spells on classmates.
"They're not educationally suitable and have been shown to be harmful to some kids," Mallory said.
She argued that teachers do not assign other religious books like the Bible as student reading.
It was Mallory's second public campaign against the popular fiction series, after trying to get her son's elementary school to ban the books in August 2005.
Victoria Sweeny, an attorney representing the Gwinnett County Board of Education in Atlanta's eastern suburbs, which had ruled against her in May, said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban mainstays like "Macbeth" and "Cinderella."
"There's a mountain of evidence for keeping Harry Potter," she said, adding that the books don't support any particular religion but present instead universal themes of friendship and overcoming adversity.
Sweeny said parents, teachers and scholars have found them a good tool to stimulate children's imagination and encourage them to read.
The hearing officer presiding over the appeal will make a recommendation to the state board, which will then decide the case at its meeting in December.
Mallory is appealing after the Gwinnett County school board ruled in favour of the books.
Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.
2007-02-15 18:29:24 · answer #6 · answered by nyhtshade 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I went to a christian college where some people refused to watch the movies because of witch craft and magic. I thought it was stupid too, after all it is just a movie.
2007-02-14 13:52:52 · answer #7 · answered by Elle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOME Christians might disapprove (just as some non-christians might). Probably some old priests who are would like to ban any books that even mention the word "magic".
:-)
2007-02-14 13:46:50 · answer #8 · answered by M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some.
I use to do flowers for Jehova Witnesses and our urns had images of lions which we had to cover with cloth because NO GRAVEN IMAGES...
Some sects see it as fantesy to show good vs evil and some see it as an indoctrination into witchcraft...as a witch, I WISH I had HP power.
2007-02-14 14:15:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep. I found a christian forum where they are definately anti Harry Potter. BUT...they also truly believe that Spongebob is the Devil. Thank Christ my life is normal!!!!!!!!!!
2007-02-14 14:21:54 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋