Another dangerous source is books. Especially such works as Harry Potter. Do you know that the names and spells in those stories are real? I started reading one of those books, I knew it was wrong and tried to rationalize the content by saying "it's just a struggle between good an evil". Eventually I gave up and treated the book for what it really was, witchcraft. (Ex. 22:18, 1 Sam. 15:23)
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Do you know that the names and spells in those stories are real?
And don't even get me started on the Silmarillion, sheesh.
"Do you know that the [...] spells in those stories are real?"
Acquiro Indicium! Acquiro Indicium! Acquiro Indicium!
Damn! Am I pronouncing it wrong or something?
Oh please! Like a kid is going to turn someone into a frog by repeating a few lines in a Harry Potter book. Let me clue you in: Witchcraft is as just as fake as Christianity. There are no such things as magic spells, except in fiction.
And don't get me started about the bible being a dangerous book...
Pathetic.
Here's the Cynic's Bible translation:
Ex. 22:18: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live for their bullshit is a competing brand of bullshit and causes not our bellies to increase.
1 Sam 15:23: For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of our SOCK PUPPET, he hath also rejected thee from being king. OBEY! OBEY! EXTERMINATE! EXTERRRMINAAATE!
"Another dangerous source is books."
Yes, books are very dangerous to people whose thinking is stuck in the 3rd Century. Early christians tried to rid the world of written stories/ideas/gods they didn't like. Luckily for humanity those evile Muslums saved copies of a lot of them.
Well, I guess you could say books helped push me away from 'God' (although mostly 'God' did that himself). But they weren't fiction books. In fact, they most likely weren't even books you'd fuss about.
"Another dangerous source is books."
So? Burn them. Isn't that what you people do?
"Especially such works as Harry Potter."
Harry potter is out of fashion. You should be bitching about Twilight. Do try to keep up.
"Do you know that the names and spells in those stories are real?"
Someone's never had a Latin class if they think that the names of those spells are real.
"I started reading one of those books,"
Heathen! Heretic! Sinner!
"I knew it was wrong and tried to rationalize the content by saying "it's just a struggle between good an evil". Eventually I gave up and treated the book for what it really was, witchcraft."
The second you can use any Harry Potter book, or combination of Harry Potter books, to cast a spell I'll believe you. Let me know when you can make something levitate by uttering some pseudolatin and waving a stick around.
Well, no duh Harry Potter would probably be a common name.
But if there really was a guy named Sirius Black that everyone thought was a murderer, why can't I find any stories?
Wow, never met any of them yet..
My virgin aHarryPotterist ... tears are rolling down my cheek... Thank you! You made my day!
"Another dangerous source is books."
Because they might have knowledge contained between their covers and it might actually get into your brain.
"Especially such works as Harry Potter."
'Cause fiction might make you think and that could strain your tiny brain.
"Do you know that the names and spells in those stories are real?"
Real in what sense? I mean, I do re4cognize that the Harry Potter books are written with real words, but, as magic is not real...
"I started reading one of those books, I knew it was wrong and tried to rationalize the content by saying 'it's just a struggle between good an evil'."
You can read?
"Eventually I gave up and treated the book for what it really was, witchcraft. (Ex. 22:18, 1 Sam. 15:23)"
And you went out and killed your neighbor because she might have been a witch?
Wow! Someone better call J.K. Rowling. I'll bet she has no idea all that stuff she made up really works.......
I guess if you're ignorant enough to think a story about a talking snake was meant to be taken literally, it's not that much of a stretch to believe Harry Potter books are supposed to be factual, as well.
@GodotIsWaiting4U: Of course, why do you think Rowling made Dumbledore gay and hopelessly in love with that good-looking, German wannabe-Nazi, Gellert Grindelwald? ;)
When you think that Harry Potter books are an actual opponent to your religion...
When you think that Harry Potter books are a religion of their own...
When you think that Harry Potter represents a real threat to your religious order..
When you think that Harry Potter has hidden meanings of a spiritual nature...
When you think that Harry Potter is a legitimate threat to your world view...
..then it is time for you to re-evaluate your beliefs.
So you're incapable of reading a book written for children, and that makes it witchcraft.
Does that make Dostoyevsky satan himself?
Accio TV remote!
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Wingardium leviosa?
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Stupefy!
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Nope, none of it works.
@ WMDKitty:
Hey now, some of us furs are decent...
... it's just that any of them that get in front of TV cameras are the complete fuckwits that the media bases the rest of us on. ;.; *goes to hide in a corner for a while again, and curls up with Discworld and Redwall*
Sadly, a number of Christians actually really believe Harry Potter books are based on reality. They actually believe that witches can cast real magic.
But it can be fun too, when I inform the especially gullible ones I'm a druid and start telling them all the 'stuff' I can do. Yeah, people like me are probably how these rumors get started :P
Xander: "Right, you can't just go "librum incendere" and expect..." (book bursts into flames)
Giles: "Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books."
We have all seven Harry Potter books, four of them in both English and Swedish, the rest only in English, and we have them as audio-books, read by Stephen Fry. We have all the films that have come out to date, five of them twice (we found such a cute little trunk with all the movies in, we couldn't resist buying them again). We have three additional books (The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, and Quidditch Through the Ages) .
IF there was anything remotely magical about Harry Potter stuff, we'd know.
Sure, if it's in a book it must be true, right? So Biggles won the Battle of Britain all by himself, then.
See what happens when you take everything in one book of fiction like the Babble literally. You make the same fuckup wih other novels, too.
Since commenting last time, I've bought all the films a third time; we found a small replica of Hogwarts with all the movies in a drawer underneath, and had to have it. It was made before the last two movies (Book 7 in two parts) came out, but had space left for them.
My husband has bought me two replicas of wands; Professor McGonagall's och Tonks'. I have waved them around and said "VingArdium LeviosA" and nothing whatsoever happened.
So no, it is just a tale of the struggle between good and evil. Harry even "dies" and comes back to life again.
Really crusadercat, I don't see what your problem is. Its not unusual for a child who has read a fantasy book to wonder if magic might be real. Said child will pick up a stick, recite the chants described in Harry Potter, discover that nothing happens and eventually realize that magic is bunk; no harm done. Eventually, the child will learn about prayer and...
Oh, now I see your problem.
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