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Post by TribalSpirit on Aug 30, 2004 15:54:47 GMT -5
agreed silver moon!!!!!! yea... i know i always stumble on those sites... but i usualy don't read... unless it REALLy catches my eye like REALLY bad stuff.
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Silver Moon
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By The Light of the Silvery Moon
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Post by Silver Moon on Aug 30, 2004 17:48:32 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Yeah same here.[/glow]
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Post by zathros on Aug 16, 2005 13:47:41 GMT -5
By the great horned God Kernunnos and his Consort!!!
I have never read such a line of crap!!! Yes, I said the evil word: CRAP!! Harry Potter and the stories about him and Hogwarts have about as much to do with real witchcraft as a fish has to do with a bicycle and are just as connected one to the other.
Why do I write this?
1. I, too, have read all the stories. 2. I have purchased all of the three movies. 3. I have looked at them from a Wiccan priest and a magick user's viewpoint.
First of all, they are rather entertaining. They deal with, now get this straight: FANTASY! just fantasy.
Only those who have trouble discerning fictional writing from historical fact or opinion could ever think of these stories of a young man who is abused by his uncle's family, who finally realises who he is and takes to his destiny as a wizard thereby leaving a family situation that anyone would find stifling; would think of the title character as evil.
This is a children's book about a fantastical world, which is again: fantasy fiction.
The cretin who wrote this formulated diatribe probably never had a fantasy about anything, because he was too afraid that it might be "Satanic" is a sad sad creature who has bought into a line as old as can be.
If it were not the Harry Potter stories, it might have been the "Bewitched" television series which might have had him upset.
Let us not forget about (Horrors of horrors) The WIZARD of Oz. Lions and Tigers and Bears!! OH my!!
Let us not forget that Christian Temperance League inspired dark moment in our American history of Prohibition. Another bad idea who's time came and, fortunately, went.
The evils of this kind of thinking are awful. Let children enjoy being the happy children that they are supposed to be and quit trying to indoctrinate them into something that they have no idea as to what it is that they are being indoctrinated into.
So, Harry Potter is a witch, so what?
I will give out erstwhile witchbasher a moment for a thought: the word heretic as defined in old english means "one who is able to think for himself."
How about this for an idea: let the kids read what they want to and enjoy the good times of being children as they are. There are too many adults saying too many stifling things to children as it is.
To (attempt to) quote one of the Bible's writings: WHen I was a child ...
Childhood should be a time filled with the joy of being a child, not having to worry about hiding under the covers with a book that he/she wants to read for fear some do-gooder will tell him/her that what is being read is 'evil' or that it might harm the child.
Bright blessings to one and all
Zathros
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