So the Christian writer who decides to put a good witch like Glinda or Hermione or Samantha Stevens or Willow Rosenberg in his story runs the risk that some impressionable schoolgirl out in the crumbling wilderness of the modern world will decide that the path to self-respect and self-actualization is to don a pointy hat and take up her wand, go to an abortion mill, and sacrifice a baby girl to Moloch. One never knows, O Christian writer, whether the last story that schoolgirl read before she read yours was THE GOLDEN COMPASS or INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE or BLINDSIGHT, or some other work firmly in the camp and flying the black banners of the Culture of Death.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have observed progress! Our test subject has named one Willow Rosenberg, a non-practicing Jew and professed lesbian, a good witch. It is obvious that our test subject never watched season 6., but nonetheless - progress!
Stop pretending your religion didn't spring from human sacrifice as a factor. Many other beliefs never carried the need to sacrifice, kill or wipe a nation out for their deity. YOURS DID, The commands are still there AND YOU KNOW IT.
The misdirection doesn't work, you can villify any other belief but you can't defend the villiany inherent in your own.
Unlike you, John, those schoolgirls know that magic isn't real.
And do you really believe that women get abortions just to sacrifice their unborn babies?
This is someone who has clearly never watched the Wizard of Oz, Bewitched, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or read or seen the Harry Potter works, if he thinks that that's what those characters would do.
Once again, I'm embarrassed this bozo graduated from my college.
"don a pointy hat and take up her wand, go to an abortion mill, and sacrifice a baby girl to Moloch."
You must have missed the episode where Willow Rosenberg exorcised Moloch from the internet.
The horrific shit that goes on in the Bible is far more of a bad influence on kids than Harry Potter. (Although I imagine the Harry Potter books are a lot more influential to kids in general - how many kids do you really think have read the Bible from cover to cover, compared to those who have read at least one Harry Potter?)
"go to an abortion mill, and sacrifice a baby girl to Moloch"
I think I missed that episode of Bewitched... :|a
Citation needed for the abortions of Glinda, Hermione, Samantha Stevens and Willow Rosenberg.
Interview with a Vampire? It has VAMPIRES in it, dearie, not witches. Perhaps you meant The Witching Hour?
> Hermione
I haven't read most of those books, but I read this one. Hermione never, in the entire 7-book series, sacrificed anyone. Such spells were classed as the Dark Arts, and were only used by flat, evil characters who lost in the end.
How are "impressionable young girls" supposed to get "human sacrifice is a good idea" out of that?!
This is mind-bendingly stupid. Schoolgirls are far smarter than you are, Mr. Wright.
Interview With a Vampire is awesome; Lestat is the best character. And he was an atheist!
I'm not going to sacrifice a baby to Moloch! Who the heck worships Moloch these days? Why a baby girl ? I'm not even pregnant! I haven't "had any" in years!
Oh, John S Wrong; YOUR deity is from the Canaanites & his wife was Asherah! How'd you like them apples?!
Each and everyone of the books and characters noted by JCW are vastly superior in every way to anything JCW has EVER written. So I hope he'll excuse me when I say coming out against such vastly superior books sounds a little...self-defensive. You know, "Sure they're better books than anything I've ever written, but they're all unholy!"
Oh, and JCW, when am I getting back that $6 I spent on that POS "Mist of Everness"?
"O Christian writer"
Is this his Single Issue Wonk [/Tv Tropes], a la Andy Schaftafly, re. sports, and Troll4Life and her dark Freudian obsessions...?!
So, in Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, God is destroyed? Deal with it, John C...:
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Funny, I don't remember abortion being mentioned in Harry Potter or the Wizard of Oz. Or even Interview With a Vampire.
Mr Wright may need to actually read these books that he's condemning. Unless he thinks the arcane knowledge contained within will mar his beautiful unblemished soul?
"One never knows, O Christian writer, whether the last story that schoolgirl read before she read yours was BIRDEMIC or MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE or BATTLEFIELD EARTH, or some other work firmly in the camp and flying the black banners of the Culture of Crap."
Didn't fix it. Just made it slightly more entertaining. (Hopefully)
First if you actually read or watched the Harry Potter books or Wizard of Oz or watched Bewitched, you'd know that was the start of your fail. Second, while witchcraft may not be real, there are people who practice it as a religion. Find me, in the tenets, where they would perform a human sacrifice or worship Moloch. Third Culture of Death? Like the RR crowd?
I'm honestly surprised that the first attack on Willow I've seen from a fundie doesn't even mention her lesbianism.
If the little schoolgirl is anything like me, she'll have come to the conclusion that magic, like most things written in fantasy, is fake.
...she'll also play a lot of Bayonetta. To the point where she's known at the local community college as "that Bayonetta girl."
Yes, a good Christian writer like JK Rowling, who identifies as a Christian.
...good witch like Glinda or Hermione or Samantha Stevens or Willow Rosenberg in his story runs the risk that some impressionable schoolgirl out in the crumbling wilderness of the modern world will decide that the path to self-respect and self-actualization is to don a pointy hat and take up her wand, go to an abortion mill, and sacrifice a baby girl to Moloch.
Something that has literally never happened nor ever will happen, ever. Most people besides fundies can distinguish between fiction and reality.
...I'm sorry, did I miss the part where Hermoine sacrificed a baby in the Harry Potters novels?
Or is Mr.Wright here making things up?
Perhaps the Christian writer could insert some warnings into his story, like "All you impressionable schoolgirls out there, don't sacrifice your babies to Moloch, or John C. Wright will regurgitate more bullshit on the Internet."
Hermione never wore a pointed hat , except the sorting hat, and that was a bit floppy.
Moloch hates baby girls.
Glinda may never have had sex, she was a good witch, no pointy hat either.
And here he says "everyone thinks it's wrong, not because I am christain" https://scifiwright.com/2014/12/an-open-letter-to-mr-hines/#comment-3928797191
"Here the poor fellow is trying to level the accusation that calling it immoral to use a beloved and popular cartoon to spread propaganda supporting a sexual deviancy to children is a sign of bigotry. Is every form of artistic integrity and moral purity a sign of bigotry, my child, or only Christian forms? If I were a Buddhist objecting to directing propaganda advocating impure sexual practices, or a Muslim, would you still call it bigotry?"
Except one of his examples os false: Here the poor fellow is trying to level the accusation that calling it immoral to use a beloved and popular cartoon to spread propaganda supporting a sexual deviancy to children is a sign of bigotry. Is every form of artistic integrity and moral purity a sign of bigotry, my child, or only Christian forms? If I were a Buddhist objecting to directing propaganda advocating impure sexual practices, or a Muslim, would you still call it bigotry?
"… the path to self-respect and self-actualization is to don a pointy hat and take up her wand, go to an abortion mill, and sacrifice a baby girl to Moloch.”
And after the abortion they do not give the fetus back to you to perform the sacrifice with. What do you burn, your receipt for services rendered? They don’t put the gender on the receipt.
"One never knows, O Christian writer, whether the last story that schoolgirl read before she read yours was THE GOLDEN COMPASS or INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE or BLINDSIGHT, or some other work firmly in the camp and flying the black banners of the Culture of Death.”
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