Why Harry Potter is so dangerous, by Jack T. Chick

[Zuni]

How does Harry Potter affect children? Here it is, in their own words:
"I want to go to wizard school and learn magic. I'd like to learn to use a wand to cast spells." (Dylan, age 10)

"If I could go to wizard school, I might be able to do spells and potions and fly a broomstick." (Myra, age 12)

"It would be great to be a wizard because you could control situations and things like teachers." (Jeffrey, age 11)

"I'd like to go to wizard school and learn magic and put spells on people. I'd make up an ugly spell and then it's pay-back time." (Catherine, age 9)

"I feel like I'm inside Harry's world. If I went to wizard school I'd study everything: spells, counterspells, and defense against the dark arts." (Carolyn, age 10)

"I liked it when the bad guys killed the unicorn and Voldemort drank its blood." (July, age 13)


Stop and think: what will these children do when invited to visit an occult website, or even a local coven?

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Millions of American schoolchildren have a new subject in school: sorcery!

Through the Harry Potter series, the ancient occult practice of sorcery is being introduced in almost every public school in America. This video explains how Scholastic Inc., the largest publisher of children's books in the world, is supplying Harry Potter materials to millions of schoolchildren. Scholastic Inc. is using its unrivaled position in the educational system to flood classrooms and libraries with wizardry, repackaged as "children's fantasy literature." Teachers are encouraged to read the Harry Potter books aloud in class, and millions of children are being densensitized to the dangers of the occult spirit world.

Through Harry's world of sorcery they are learning the occultic tools -- occult visualization and soulish mind power, wands, brooms, spells and curses.

In this video, you will see how completely occult is the world of Harry Potter. After reading the Harry Potter books, millions of children will demand to see Warner Bros. new movie, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."


Christian parents have faced a similar problem for years with the teaching of evolution in their public schools. They have responded by teaching their children that they cannot believe everything they are taught in school. Now, with the Harry Potter books on sorcery becoming part of public school curriculum, parents need to know enough about it to also teach their children that the spell-casting and other activities of Harry Potter are also forbidden territory. This video will help.O8)

[aeolian]

1. Riiiight...because, if there's one things kids DON'T understand,

it's magic and fantasy and casting spells and the like.

Nope. None of that was around before that evil Harry Potter. Why couldn't that lady have written a book about a nice, Christian boy who becomes a priest? That would have sold just as well...'cause kids love going to church even more than magic...

[NewJeffCT]

9. It's a Chick theme - check out this one on Dungeons & Dragons

Complete with hysterical commentary from the folks at MST3K

http://www.fecundity.com/darkdung/

[Bridget Burke]

10. Chick would NOT approve "a nice Christian boy who becomes a priest"

The Roman Catholic Church is one of his greatest enemies.

[SkipNewarkDE]

2. Safe to say...

that most of the millions of children (and adults) devoted to Potter in book and movie form are fairly cognizant of the fact that stuff like magic, talking animals, flying through the air, transmutation, etc. are all just make-believe fairy tales.

Kinda like... oh never mind.

[hfojvt]

3. expellarius!!!!

no, wait, what was that spell again. A-ha.
Hocus cadabra!! Take that, you dirty rat!

[tigereye]

5. yeah

My kid is desperate to start controlling adults with spells. ( well, maybe a little) ;) Alas, there is no such school to attend. Sigh.

[tjwmason]

11. Most of them don't bother with spells

Just constant moaning and well-timed tantrums to train their parents.

[tigereye]

14. tantrums don't work with me

not do blackmail, tales of woe or whining. ;)

[Arkana]

7. LOL...

Expelliarmus!

[Massacure]

4. And wanting to be a sorcerer is different than a cowboy how?

[CornField]

6. What they fail to realize is that *every* child

wants to control their parents/teachers/authority figures... *every* child dreams of being able to fly (on a broomstick, with wings, whatever)... *every* child goes through a time where he/she wonders about their life and if they are really someone very special who was accidentally placed with this crazy family.

To deny fantasy is to deny youthful dreams and fancy. It cannot be done with crushing a child's spirit.

[Az]

8. The real reason the religious right hates Harry Potter

Moral Relativism vs Dogmatic Moral Authority.

Harry Potter teaches people that they can determine evil on their own. It teaches people to question authority. It teaches that people can determine their own path.

[Book Lover]

13. You remind me of

this article from Slate. The first para below used to be my sig here :-)

http://slate.com/id/2100637

Finally, they both have a theology. It's not, as one might expect, that Left Behind is Christian and Harry Potter pagan, but rather that Left Behind is Protestant and Harry Potter is Catholic. One of the chief theological arguments between Catholics and Protestants has been over whether salvation is earned through faith or by good works. In Left Behind, the only thing that matters is faith in Jesus. Steele explains that church leaders had led so many people astray because they merely "expected them to lead a good life, to do the best they could, to think of others, to be kind, to live in peace. It sounded so good, and yet it was so wrong. How far from the mark!"

While everything is pre-ordained in Left Behind, in Harry Potter, by contrast, Dumbledore explicitly tells Harry that even though he carries some of the essence of Voldemort in him, he has the power to do good because he has the power of choice.

In that sense, despite their similarities, at their hearts the two series are different in a fundamental but not obvious way. Left Behind is fatalistic; Harry Potter sees outcome determined by individual actions. Both provide a roadmap for how to live a good life, but in one case the key is morality, and in the other it is faith.

[Beer Snob-50]

12. don't most women practice witchcraft anyway

"big tittius in tightus sweaterus" is a spell used to attract possible lovers isn't it?