Because the Harry Potter books are a powerful lure for children. Children should be studying the bible instead of reading stories that can be percieved as paganism. I think it might even break a commandment if you take it far enough.
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Yeah, talking animals, transmutation, people flying, all that stuff that never happens in the bible.
Can be perceived, yes, but many things can be perceived in ways that they really aren't. Severe weather patterns can be perceived as coming up out of nowhere, yet patterns like that always have a cause. Scratching nails across a blackboard could be perceived as music by some; others will find it the most annoying noise on earth. You can be perceived as having some form of common sense, as your name suggests. How a thing is perceived doesn't make it true, though.
Maybe, if Rowling is lucky, thousands of years from now the complete seven book set will be considered the Revealed Word of Our Lord Harry Potter. And then there'd be all the infighting over which fanfictions are apocrypha and which are valid works, as dictated to the prophets of LiveJournal.
That's right! Commandment XI states "Thou shalt not think." It's in the Real True Christian version of the Bible, but Satan, the Illuminati, and Tres kept it out of the other versions.
Lure into intelligence, maybe?, because if kids read the Kings or the Exodus they may feel compeled to kill an entire city and save the virgins, you know, or give their daughters to a rape gang, if they read Genesis.
Reading stories is percieved as paganism ? o_O;;;;
Besides, didn't this whole Harry Potter thing end, say, seven or six or so years back?
I read lots of fantasy and science fiction as a child, and never imagined that I could fly, walk through walls, shoot laser beams from my eyes, etc. Kids can tell the difference between reality and fantasy. Unlike fundies.
I read lots of fantasy and science fiction as a child, and never imagined that I could fly, walk through walls, shoot laser beams from my eyes, etc. Kids can tell the difference between reality and fantasy. Unlike fundies.
I love how someone said possible troll here. You can troll on Christian websites and mock them, but you are unwilling or possibly just too ignorant to debate them? We challenge you to come onto our websites and state your views...or are you not up to the challenge because you are not in "truth?"
God bless!
People have been debating them. Some members of exhibited sites come in and have reasoned discussion on our forums, and some members of FSTDT go there and debate civilly. :D
In fact, there are many Christians (and other faiths) who come to Fundies Say the Darndest Things, in addition to those who don't believe. Why? Because they DO say them, and it gives those Christians an opportunity to discuss these quotes without compromising.
People have been debating them. Some members of exhibited sites come in and have reasoned discussion on our forums, and some members of FSTDT go there and debate civilly. :D
In fact, there are many Christians (and other faiths) who come to Fundies Say the Darndest Things, in addition to those who don't believe. Why? Because they DO say them, and it gives those Christians an opportunity to discuss these quotes without compromising.
Golly, CS, I tried to study the bible when I was a little poopy-pants, but Jesus showed up and told me not to waste my life.
Maybe you should read his Myspace-page too? He's clearly ironic.
"Hello everyone! I am an opinionated Atheist. I strongly reject the ideology that there exists a prayer-answering, personal God. With that comes the instant and unconditional rejection of opinion generated by the software that drives the thought process of the unwitting faithful. "
Yeah because the Bible was so well-written that children find it gripping! Thankfully children enjoy the flow and pacing of the Bible so much that it encourages them to read more...especially all that interesting stuff on geneology that tries to link Christ with Kings as if that should matter to modern democratized children...
wait wait wait...
The Bible gets a big fucking F in writing. No introduction, no summary, no index, no real divinity shown in the way it was written at all. God needs to learn to paragraph and chunk his ideas into meaningful units that are easy to understand and digest.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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