2007-07-18 22:04:43 · 35 answers · asked by Doodle 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i am jewish ,and not at all it ,just a fairy tail,just as much as cinderala or snow white.cheers
2007-07-18 22:09:57 · answer #1 · answered by shawn m 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is a really, really funny question - thank's for brightening up my day! I've never heard of anything so ridiculous in my life. Harry Potter, offensive? Religious fanatics always find something to be offended by - it's in the job description isn't it? This small minority obviously cannot tell fact from fiction and their poor children must have very dull lives if they can't have a bit of fun and watch/read great stories like Harry Potter.
2007-07-18 22:19:25 · answer #2 · answered by cat on a hot tin roof 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you look at it seriously most of the old classical fairy tales would have to be considered as evil and offensive, but people take them for what they are, just stories..simply stories..as is Harry Potter, just the imagination of a very clever lady. It is easy to be offended by lots of things and I think a previous person has said these people who are so easily offended perhaps take life a little too serious. I am sure there are only a small minority who find it offensive, but then those people also have no tolerance for other peoples religions or faiths either.
2007-07-18 22:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Paul D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very, very small minority. You can stop by most mainstream churches and check out Harry Potter books from the church library. However, a serious belief in witchcraft is an offense to both religion and science, but the Harry Potter books don't even encourage that, which should be obvious to anyone who has ever read them. But who would have ever thought that everyone who criticizes a book would have actually read it.
2007-07-18 23:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by skip 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i didn't find it offensive. Wht's offensive about it? Shouldn't some of the other crap on tv and movies that come out be pointed at before a little fun kiddy movie? I think it's strange to even ask it....
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oh ok, so it's the magic that riles people up? lol Don't watch it then. no need to make a big deal of it.
Actually, it's not really good to watch most stuff coming from the media nowadays.
Know what's scary? - All the subconscious stuff that the media and advertising is feeding us.. watch this clip to get an idea of how much control the dedia has over us. Scary!!
dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQjr1YL0zg
2007-07-18 22:15:28 · answer #5 · answered by happy_n_freeone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its just a story, but a really gripping one. Some people take things way too seriously.
I would have loved books like these when I was growing up, but all we had were the Famous Five and The Secret Seven, don't get me wrong they were great but Harry Potter back in the 50s, wow! now that would have been something.
2007-07-18 22:50:01 · answer #6 · answered by Roxy. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speaking as a 'born again' Christian, I do not find Harry Potter at all offensive but I know of so called Christian people who do and will not let their children watch the films or read the books....bad move...as they will at some point anyway.
Better to use fantasy to describe the truth to them...let them watch the film and then explain to them that witchcraft cannot be good or bad....all witchcraft is bad whatever people may say. Also let them learn the difference between reality and fantasy.
In this world we are either in Gods camp by choice or we are in satans by choice or by apathy. I know whose camp I always want to be in...
Best wishes, Mike.
2007-07-18 23:21:53 · answer #7 · answered by georgiansilver 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its definately the rabid fundamentalist minority. There's nothing wrong with Harry Potter, it doesn't promote the use of magic, its a fictional fantasy, where the hero and protoganists are "good" guys fighting against "evil". Its nothing more threatening than Snow White or Cinderella. And what about all the tv shows that promote violence, intolerance, hate? Isn't that worse?
Christians etc. speak against magic and that its all from the devil. What about the Kabbalah of Judaism then?
2007-07-18 22:38:41 · answer #8 · answered by Jingizu 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can see where some people are coming from in this,but up to now it has been a bit like Cowboys and Indians with the goodies always winning but with some casualties along the way. The problem comes from the spirit world or the fourth dimension. As a Christian who believes in an after life in with Gods grace heaven or in for want of a better description with Satan in in hell, I find it difficult not to believe that other powers of evil exist. The Church of Rome rightly in my view forbids its Adherents from experimenting with this because the immortal soul can be held in permanent captivity or worse by the evil which can come from such experimentation
2007-07-19 01:22:16 · answer #9 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say it's a minority. I know quite a few Christians who are Harry Potter fans.
2007-07-18 22:08:18 · answer #10 · answered by solarius 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
a small - but very vocal - minority
as always, the person who makes the mosty noise gets all the attention
although I am an agnostic/atheist, I do know some very tolerant, very sincere religious people and all of them have no problem with harry potter
2007-07-18 22:08:44 · answer #11 · answered by SeabourneFerriesLtd 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋