Comments on: Wizards or Idiots? It’s your choice

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I totally agree…kids half the time do not pick up on the negative stuff that some people say is in all of their entertainment. They probably wouldnt think anything of the stories (other than that they were just harmless fun) if people weren’t foaming at the mouth and telling them how bad they are.

I remember when someone threw a fit about Bert and Ernie being gay (was it the Baptist Press that did that one too?) and most people I talked to said that they never would have thought anything subversive at all had no one said anything. I for one just thought they were brothers…same for the Teletubbies…

By: Camassia

Camassia — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Long ago, before this sort of thing became illegal, my mother’s public school teacher read the class Bible stories. One of them was Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac, and it scared the crap out of my mom. Her parents were atheists, so she had zero context for the story. So yeah, it’s a book that should be handled with extreme caution.

By: Mean Dean

Mean Dean — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Oh fine, here I not only add you to the rolls at blogs4God.com last night, but headline you as one of the notable new guys and here you go with the subversive stuff …

… what’s next, comparing kids left unattended to interpret the violence in a Bugs Bug Bunny with the Passion?

Shee-stinking-louise …

By: David Scott

David Scott — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Eh, this is a harder one for me than for some-as a person who has always been a part of the sci-fi/fantasy/fan-boy/gamer subculture, I’ve heard a lot of things that I like called evil.

On the other hand, though, there is a lot of pressure on teens especially to reject an old-fashioned, useless Christianity in favor of a vibrant, powerful neo-Pagan faith. Believe me, I know: I left behind a Christian-tinged agnosticism in its favor years ago.

Though, then again, their primary argument against Christianity is that is is spiritually dead, and unaware of the world’s hidden things, so, maybe, a little enlightenment would be good for them. I wouldn’t stop my daughter from reading them, though I would talk to her about them, BUT this is something the average Evangelical christian may not feel well-prepared to do.

My point, if there is one, is that there are reasons beyond simple close-mindedness that Harry Potter is railed against, though perhaps a boycott is not the best way to deal with the problem of a church that is vulnerable to a vibrant neo-paganism.