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Linux user. Tries to keep feeding the brain with stuff. Husband and father of a young lady and a younger son who has autism/is autistic... that nut didn't fall far from this nut-tree, I'll tell ya: he gets it honestly. Now if only he'd sleep..............
I believe that God gave us the science, curiousity and intelligence to one day conclusively prove that God does not exist.
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Linux user. Tries to keep feeding the brain with stuff. Husband and father of a young lady and a younger son who has autism/is autistic... that nut didn't fall far from this nut-tree, I'll tell ya: he gets it honestly. Now if only he'd sleep..............
I believe that God gave us the science, curiousity and intelligence to one day conclusively prove that God does not exist.
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Tuesday September 03, 19
07:42 PM
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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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday September 03 2019, @07:57PM
When Harry Potter first started to become popular, I seem to remember a church minister in Inverness warning parents not to let their children read Harry Potter because it was "Devil worship" or some such nonsense. Yes, there are grown adults who actually believe that. Some years previously another church minister in Scotland had said that Yoga was "Devil worship."
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @08:03PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwJlrj8CNzk [youtube.com]
you got cursed
(Score: 3, Funny) by Freeman on Tuesday September 03 2019, @08:31PM (8 children)
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Ephesians-6-12/ [kingjamesbibleonline.org]
https://www.amazon.com/Hour-Witch-Steve-Wohlberg/dp/0768422795 [amazon.com]
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"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Tuesday September 03 2019, @08:41PM (3 children)
Though, quite interesting to find out:
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.
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"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @10:45PM (1 child)
How isn't the anthropomorphization of Jesus into a talking lion blasphemy, anyway?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 30 2019, @02:31AM
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @03:14AM
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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 04 2019, @12:34AM (3 children)
Can you explain to me where evil came from in the first place? I don't mean so much its chronological starting point as its ontological roots: what is it that allows evil to exist?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Wednesday September 04 2019, @12:50AM
Evil?
Ask your kitty what is evil [imgur.com]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @02:21AM
Depends on the type of "evil" you're talking about.
If you're talking about the "evil" in Man's heart that makes them rob and kill anyone they think they can get away with it, there is no stopping that type of "evil" as long as Man walks the Earth.
If you're talking about the "evil" as defined in religion, that manifests itself in what is commonly portrayed as the Devil, that is allowed to exist by the delusions of those suffering the effects of religion.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by rylyeh on Friday September 06 2019, @04:40AM
Evil is the hobgoblin of taboo. Or the restriction of living choices - if you like William James...
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 03 2019, @08:59PM
Challenge accepted! Hold my beer...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday September 03 2019, @09:57PM
When the starting point is a mandate to ignore facts and logic you can get a lot more stupid than banning Harry Potter!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @10:34PM
They're late to the party. Over in Michigan's Calvinist no-go zone (Holland-Grand Rapids area), Zeeland's school banned the book back when there was just Sorcerer's Stone, before it was a series. Decided to give it a read after that happened. Never did read the others though.
I can also verify that yes, these people really are that damned stupid, delusional, and frankly insane. They have a tenuous grasp on reality at best. They actively choose to live in a demon-haunted world. They believe that demons literally exist.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @08:14AM
ESR Patronus! No, seriously, ESR on Patreon [patreon.com]. He writes code that is magically delicious.
(Score: 3, Funny) by rylyeh on Friday September 06 2019, @04:52AM
Disney pulled Bedknobs_and_Broomsticks [wikipedia.org] because of the unfortunate choice of the magic amulet's name, 'The Star of Astaroth', a well known daemon from King james the VI's 'Daemonolgy', which also included a recipe for meat trees, (plant the chops in the moonlight...) and a flying carpet.
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."