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Friday, April 12, 2002
Anti-Harry Potter
This really belongs on Ryan's Two Dollar Prayer Blog, but I thought this to be extremely . . . something (maddening, embarassing, confusing?). An article from this website http://www.crossroad.to/ was sent to me by my friend Kyle. I read the essay and was so interested that I read more and more, mostly the ones pertaining to Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings.
My first criticism of these articles is that the author never definitively states why ideas and themes present in Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings series are wrong. He simply says that they are evil and expects you to see things his way. The only assertion he makes is that fantasy stories will change the way you think. But if things that change the way a person thinks are evil, if changing what you believe is evil and stagnation is the ideal, then learning is a sin; problem-solving is a sin; thinking itself is a sin. I refuse to believe that changing and bettering oneself via exposure to different and diverse ideas is a sin in God's eye.
Besides this, the evidence (almost completely scriptural references) the author uses to back up his opinions are almost always out of context. However, this is a problem that faces most anti-anything Christian propaganda. It is much easier to just say that the Bible agrees with what you think than to actually prove it. And most Christians just eat it up if you spout off a book, chapter, and verse number. But I choose to believe that the book itself is true, not other's interpretations of it, especially not anti-imagination Christian fanatics.
| Mr. McBastard | 3:54 PM | | |
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