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OMG, how stupid can you be?

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https://www.cbc.ca/books/harry-potter-removed-from-tennessee-catholic-school-library-1.5268338

"The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text."

Hly shit...there are supposedly intelligent people who think this?
Watch some Buffy, why don't you...Witches...vampires...guys with erections...

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Tuesday September 03 2019, @08:41PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday September 03 2019, @08:41PM (#889287) Journal

    Though, quite interesting to find out:

    To me, the religious parallels have always been obvious," Rowling said. "But I never wanted to talk too openly about it because I thought it might show people who just wanted the story where we were going."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/3668658/J-K-Rowling-Christianity-inspired-Harry-Potter.html [telegraph.co.uk]

    It's quite possible, it runs similar to C.S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" series, but one major difference is that the heroes/heroines weren't wizards/witches. While, there was definitely magic in the Chronicles of Narnia, the children weren't the ones wielding said power. In great contrast to Harry Potter, where the main child hero and his friends are all witches/wizards in training.

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @10:45PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @10:45PM (#889311)

    How isn't the anthropomorphization of Jesus into a talking lion blasphemy, anyway?

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 30 2019, @02:31AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 30 2019, @02:31AM (#926242) Journal
      Never met Jesus myself. Maybe he is a lion now. Certainly no more a blasphemy than assuming God is some sort of cosmic babysitter.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @03:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @03:14AM (#889365)

    If religious symbolism that doesn't fit you exact narrative is satanic, you'd better be prepared to eschew all of these: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MessianicArchetype [tvtropes.org] and that's just for starters.