Hello everybody. I'm sure you've all heard of the controversy over whether the Harry Potter series are making kids become evil Satan worshippers.
IMO, this is absolute bollocks. Children don't just read a book, then stop believing in God and start worshipping the Devil and cast demonic spells! Ok, some of you may say that obsessed children who have overly wild imaginations will, but a) the series doesn't mention Satan or God once and b) if parents make it clear to children that the book is ficticious then the children won't become dark wizards.
Besides, what's the harm in a simple fantasy? We all believed in the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus at one stage (at least I hope so). We all believed with absolute conviction, but that did nothing dramatic to our minds. So what if a child believes there is magic? Its not going to do him any harm.
Why are these people telling the rest of us what to do anyway? They should be monitoring their own kids beliefs, not the rest of ours. If they don't want to let their kids read Harry Potter then so be it. I don't care. But even that isn't needed. Children can read Harry Potter and still believe in God.
Where is the proof that children are going Satanic anyway? I haven't seen one example of a Satanic Harry Potter crazed child.
Thousands of fantasy books have been written. Why are they only attacking Harry Potter? Because its a bestseller, you may say. But they should be attacking the magic genre altogether.
Here is an example of how stupid these people are:
Quote:This religious fear has inspired at least two internet urban legends, both inspired by satires unintentionally taken seriously. In 2001, The Onion, an American spoof magazine that satirises pop culture phenomena, wrote an article entitled, "Harry Potter Sparks Rise in Satanism Among Children", which said, with obvious irony, that the High Priest of Satanism had described Harry Potter as "an absolute godsend to our cause." Regardless, this article was copied into a chain letter and circulated among Christians as "proof" of their views. The following year the Canadian rightwing daily the National Post released a similar spoof article in its satirical column, Post Morten, saying that "Rowling -- or, as she shall henceforth be referred to and credited as, Mrs. J. K. Satan -- said that as she sat in a coffee shop one grey day, wondering what to do with her empty, aimless life, it hit her: "I'll give myself, body and soul, to the Dark Master. And in return, he will give me absurd wealth and power over the weak and pitiful of the world. And he did!"" This article too was copied into a chain letter and released as "truth" onto the web.
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