Harry Potter books are even showing up in your supermarket, the drugstore anywhere a few dollars can be made.
The occult is becoming the accepted norm these days.
another sign of the last days? I think so.
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Hooray! Here comes dah judge! Here come dah judge!
Wow, Potter takes over the world, eh?
BTW, the Babble? WAY more occult in there than a middle aged brit could come up with.
Just because Harry Potter features magic, witches, and wizards, does NOT mean that it's a book about the occult. For heaven's sakes, fantasy books have been written for a long time now, and I don't think anyone's suffered severe side effects from reading them. Grow up.
Just because a book has witches\wizzards and magic in it, doesn't mean that it's "TEH OCCULTZ"!
Harry Potter is a Christian allegory, stupid. It's written by a Christian and it's about the fight between good and evil, both within ourselves and in the world at large.
It made kids in Sweden, and probably elsewhere too, learn English faster, so that they wouldn't have to wait for the translation of the new book to come out.
The End Times started somewhere before the first Ascension and have been going on for nigh on two thousand years now. They'll probably go on another millennium or five...
Crazy ranting aside, anyone else notice that the "last days" have been going on for years now? I mean, if it was the "end times" in 2005, why are we, and for that matter they, still here? Shouldn't they have realized it's not going to bloody well happen by now? I'm sorry, this isn't related to the quote specifically, more RR as a whole, but WTF?
Tell me about it 4everHis. I was reading a story the other day that was all about the occult. It seems this king had become very unpopular, while his favorite general was the people's new rising star. The king was afraid of a coup (I didn't blame him at all), so he went to a witch and asked her to conjure up the ghost of his deceased mentor for advice. The ghost told the king he was screwed, and sure enough, several chapters later the ghost's predictions came true. Yeah, that story was chock full of magic and stuff and should have been burned!
Where did I find that story again? Oh yeah, it was from the bible!
Crazy ranting aside, anyone else notice that the "last days" have been going on for years now?
Of course. It's the only joke in the world that, contrary to all others, gets funnier with repetition.
I think the occult aspects of Harry Potter aren't their biggest worry.
They like to think they have "the Greatest Story Ever Told", instead they have a hodgepodge of ancient fables that can't compete with a good ripping fully connected yarn. That's the gist of it, had Potter, Twilight or Pokeman not been popular they wouldn't care.
Remember it's the fundies who attack everything that threatens their religion and the largest threat is fiction, Hollywood, tv, and print. Competition, Christianity has always suppresed it in any form.
The fundies other problem here lies in the fact that they raised generations to believe in witchs, if your kid believes Hogswarth and witchcraft is possible it's your fault.
How many fundie comments have we seen with them thinking they've been cursed, spells have been placed on them or their family, Demons have possessed someone or there's large occult organizations manipulating the world leaders? A shitload. Talk about indoctrinating your kids into the occult!
"Harry Potter books are even showing up in your supermarket, the drugstore anywhere a few dollars can be made."
Hate Capitalism much, little right -wing fundie? HERETIC!
"The occult is becoming the accepted norm these days."
Better not watch certain anime, then: "Mahou Tsukai Tai". "CardCaptor Sakura". "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha". " Puella Magi Madoka Magica", the list goes on. In Japan, 'witches' are seen as cute and good .
"another sign of the last days? I think so."
Well, JK Rowling's newest bestselling work "The Casual Vacancy" has absolutely nothing to do with wizards/witchcraft/the 'occult' in general, so you should be all right there, 4skinHis. >:D
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