For the record, I have not read any of the Harry Potter books. I have watched I think ONE of the movies, and I am totally against it. What is the entire premise of the series?? Witchcraft??
Remember an old show called Soap? Billy Crystal played the gay-child? He did WONDERS in desensitizing the American people to the homosexual lifestyle! I mean he was cute, he was lovable and he was funny!!
Isn't the same true with Harry Potter? Look folks, step right up, there is nothing here to harm you!! So you dabble a little here and a little there, and then the next thing we know our Christian-raised children are questioning their religion and wanting to look into Wicca, or some other rituals.
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Yes, because God forbid you actually accept other religions. Oh, wait, he does forbid it. Well, that's His problem, isn't it?
“Isn't the same true with Harry Potter?”
"So you dabble a little here and a little there, and then the next thing we know our Christian-raised children are questioning their religion and wanting to look into Wicca, or some other rituals.”
I was born in a Christian high control cult with many taboos. It was abusive and made me realize that it could not be "God's organization" or "the truth". I was young and curious, Harry Potter didn't exist yet. I visited an esoteric library. I felt strange sensations because I was still so supertitious and anxious. But years later after practicing a few meditation, divination and magic forms and having re-studied the world's religions and the origins and formation of their holy texts, interestingly, I left that behind. I began to doubt in the supernatural and I was busy with practical things, work, a relationship, etc. I could explain more satisfactorily my own strong personal experiences, including what seemed to be spiritual or mystical. And I knew that to improve one's life, actual actions are needed, rather than praying or trying to manifest them with imaginary games. A number of years later I was strangely open to study geology and biology again. I had been seriously sick (likely SARS-1), hospitalized and then had some time to think and was reading on the various medical procedures, the Coronaviruses, etc. Eventually I was in awe when I finally understood evolution and how obvious it all was. I still can be. It really helps to understand life and much about us and our behaviors. More deeply than any philosophy or religious tradition. It's based on the observation of the real world.
As for gay people, I knew some since young without knowing they were and they would not tell me until much later. Because they knew that I was raised in a bigoted cult, the same as theirs in some cases. A few of my best friends are. It doesn't change anything to me. Who cares what people sometimes do in private when it's with consenting adults? Why should people and their lives be redefined by our own bigotry, because of what they may or may not be doing a few hours a week? Like if we all were sex-animals only, without a more complex life and other activities. Mind your own business, instead of ruining your health or that of others with obsessions... If to you, all gay people are bad people, it's because you've not actually known gay people. The same with magicians or people of other religions, in fact.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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