i've never read any of the harry potter books---in the same way that i've never taken a needleful of heroine or snacked on a bowl of rat poison.
witchcraft is not harmless. the defence that "it gets kids interested in reading" makes about as much sense as saying that gang rape "gets kids interested in social activities".
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The thing is, Harry Potter HAS got a lot kids interested in reading. I wasn't aware that a large number of otherwise asocial kids were coming out of their shells thanks to gang rapes.
"Hey Josh, that gang rape sure was fun! You wanna get together again Friday? Maybe we could go bowling or something."
Though if you replaced 'gang rape' with 'sex' that analogy might actually work.
Also, shit for brains, it's "needle full," as in, two goddamned words. And "heroine" means a female hero. "Heroin" is a drug.
Perhaps if you read more, you'd have learned by example how to use the English language.
Wait a second... I think I've cracked it!
The real reason that they're attacking Harry Potter isn't the magic (though they certainly do believe it's a threat in itself), it IS the fact that it's encouraging kids to read.
Children who can read are in 'danger' of being exposed to uncensored information, which might lead to them (dun dun dun) forming their own opinions contrary to what their parents tell them to believe .
Fictional spells might not be a real danger to religion, but intelligence definitely is.
"makes about as much sense as saying that gang rape "gets kids interested in social activities"
I really really like that part of the quote. It's kind of stupid in this case, but I can see some some instances where it might be funny.
"i've never read any of the harry potter books"
Reminds me of the Muslim, who was publicly burning a copy of the Satanic Verses, being asked by a reporter if he'd actually read the book. To which he replied: "No! But it is blasphemous!"
I've never read any of the Bible. In the same way that I've never taken a uranium enema or snacked on a new born baby.
Religious studies are not harmless. The defence that "It helps kids understand cultural differences" makes about as much sense as saying that exercise "Gets kids fitter".
I had a terrible urge to fix that. Maybe the evil fixing daemon was working through me?
BlackMageJ -
Yes! I think you did indeed crack it. Fundies don't want kids to read anything , not even their own damn bible. If they were capable of reading and understanding their bible, they certainly wouldn't be fundies/pharisees.
Mediocre as the Harry Potter series is, it's fiction, and it's getting more kids to read than the Bible is.
Maybe that's why Fundie parents hate it so much.
Scary fucked up fundie without even the most tenuous of grasps on reality.
Equating Harry Potter (without having ever read it) to gang rape speaks of some horrific, tortured fundy mindeset.
Fire is too good a death....
You know the gang at rapture ready must be the weakest group of Christians in the whole world. They constantly fear losing their faith to any outside influence, no matter how slight and then they project it onto other, more moderate Christians who are more comfortable with and less afraid of things outside their faith.
I can't believe this fuck wit is comparing a Harry P book to fucking dope . Only a fundie idiot could even make such a comparison .Sorry if we don't see the similarities you see fundie ,connecting some decently written and very entertaining children literature to a to a dangerous potentially lethal and extrmely addictive drug thats killed and destroyed the life's of many friends wifes husbands uncles aunts children fathers moms sisters sons cousin and whole families .
.Like I said before , The USA would be one sorry pitifully place if these dark aged superstitious rejects were allowed to teach their insane religious dogma bullshit in our schools.
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Everyone say it with me now:
"I've Never Read It, But I Know It's Bad!"
(You know, that sounds like it could be the title of a game show.)
...How does gang rape get kids interested in social activities?
And witchcraft is harmless. Why? Because there's no such thing. And even if there were, Harry Potter does NOT introduce kids to anything more than bad Latin bastardizations.
hmm and harry potter is a problem why?? because kids will read it think magic is cool, learn how to do magic like on harry potter (cause you know thats possible), and then use their new skills to overthrow religion!!
Well I gotta admit, I've read the Harry Potter books. And while I dont want to shoot heroin or eat some rat poison. I think I might get some of my buddies together and go rape a woman, anyone else in?
And while ImOnStandby221 et al have been witch-hunting and book-burning Harry Potter, Phil Pullman's "Anti-Narnia" trilogy has been booming.
While the escorts are all off depth-charging a decoy, the real torpedoes bore into the convoy from the other side...
harry potter = gang rape?
I don't even know where to go from there.
Heroin and Rat Poison (Warfrin) are both useful in small doses. However I suggest megadosing for you.
Worst analogy ever. A rape doesn't get the kid eager to be a victim of more rapes. Reading a Harry Potter book can get the kid eager to read more Harry Potter books.
(I know of two Swedish boys, aged around 9, who plodded through the English version of one of the books, because they didn't have the patience to wait for the Swedish translation. 9 is the age when you begin learning English in Swedish schools.)
I have read them all (and the three additional books as well), several times, and I knew more witchcraft* before I read them, than I could find in them.
The books point out that most people are not all good or all evil, that we all have a bit of both in us, and that an action can be both good and evil at the same time.
Maybe this is what the fundies are so scared of? The absence of absolute black versus absolute white.
* The same witchcraft that got a lot of women burned at the stake, like mixing dried chamomile in your tea might reduce your headache or your cold. Stuff like that...
"witchcraft is not harmless."
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'Isaki Aham Mehinam. Etto Kaffe Nam!'
...nope, not been turned into a newt yet. And, like watching "Mahou Tsukai Tai", reading about fictional wizards & witches = rape is a bad analogy. Ergo, ImOnStandby221 (& everyone else on Ruptured Retards):
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QED.
Books and heroine are two completely different things.
And your analogy is shit.
Repeat after me. Magic. Isn't. Real.
Fundies, the masters of crap analogies.
Actually I've never done any of those things either (not interested in Harry Potter books and not daft enough to voluntarily poison myself). But there is absolutely fuckall connection between the first and the other two.
As for comparing fictitious withcraft to real life gang rape - do you fundies get off on confusing fiction with reality? Oh wait, of course you do.
"i've never taken a needleful of heroine or snacked on a bowl of rat poison."
Wait, why haven't you eaten rat poison? Doesn't your bible say that Jesus himself promised that those who believe in him will not be harmed by poisons in Mark 16:17-18?
Strange how you can be so sure that Jesus is right about everything else but suddenly full of doubt when it comes to putting yourself on the line.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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