Evil Harry Potter

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JulianN said:
the frustration people are having with you about HP is that it is not passing on evil ideas.

So we might also ask why you can’t seem to “get this.”
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On what standard do you define what is evil? Do you just decide?.. My standard is not my own personal opinion but that of Christ and his teaching. Creation cannot define creation with any sense of authority. Only a creator can rightly decide.
 
Of course… you avoid answering the questions. Oh by the way, I’m not Catholic but I am a Christian. No… It’s becoming very predictable about your position on these matters.
 
Then there is the disconnect. The Catholic church doesn’t say one way or the other and leaves it up to the individual to decide for themselves. Many non-Catholic Christian denominations tell their congregants what they can and cannot do without much explination many times.

Thank God for highbchurches which still allow us to use their brains now and then!
 
So do you view owning a book of Norse or Greek mythology in some way promotion of witchcraft?
 
lonegreywolf20 said:
Then there is the disconnect. The Catholic church doesn’t say one way or the other and leaves it up to the individual to decide for themselves
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No but the Word of God does say, and that standard supercedes any denominal organization. God hates evil ideas imposed on unsuspecting children.
 
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No but the Word of God does say, and that standard supercedes any denominal organization. God hates evil ideas imposed on unsuspecting children.
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And the Word of God as interpreted by whom? Catholics believe that authority was given to the Church by Christ.
 
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Here’s the thing. Just reading the Bible can give children evil ideas.

Should we stop them from reading that as well?

Harry Potter is no more guilty of that then is the Bible. That is why parents teach right from wrong and good vs. evil.

My girlfriend’s kid grew up reading and watching Harry Potter, along with playing Pathfinder which is a DnD type game for those that weren’t happy with changes made in Dungeons and Dragons itself. Kid is one of the most respectful kids I know. He had known me for three years now and still puts Mr in front of my name.

Proverbs 22:6 very much comes to mind here.
 
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tgGodsway said:
But none of it is of God.
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So are you now claiming that you didn’t mean it when you said that the ideas in HP would not enter a child’s mind without being in a book or other entertainment and basically fed to them? Because it is not of God? ISTM that your replies are getting more and more incoherent and non-responsive.
 
This is crazy thinking. I do not know even one passage or narrative where casting spells is a good thing, and done by one who represents the good. No… Harry Potter is portrayed as a good guy who has powers. Those powers are never identified. He is always presented in a good light while practicing things God’s word says is darkness. It is the same concept as the good witch in wizard of Oz. The Bible says Satan transforms himself as an angel of light. Satan’s Light is portrayed as something beautiful. Always.
 
Wasn’t talking about magic in the Bible.

I think you look for the devil in the details way too much.

Not everything is of the devil. He doesn’t have that much power!
 
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In the strictest sense of the word, yes… they do believe in Jesus Christ and therefore one part of a very large pie. But since you brought up their lack of rules on Harry Potter, I also brought up how my view is not represented by them necessarily. However, I believe this original debate was in the context of a Catholic school who threw out all of their Harry Potter material deeming it inappropriate. I agree with that school.
 
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I had a Baptist friend years ago who condemned Narnia because of the “diabolical” elements of fantastical magic… yes, that’s the logical conclusion one reaches if one really buys into this Anti-HP position.
 
Out of the Ashes arose the Provisionals (IRA) 🙂
 
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Also Kingdom come deliverance is the best RPG i ever played and highly immersive to it’s time period. Many modern games just don’t understand what Christianity meant to people so when you have titles such as assassins creed portray medieval or renaissance periods they just get the whole feel of the time period wrong. They try and portray people in those days as being quite secular minded and relateable to the average SJW of today which is quite laughable. Christianity in these games is rarely expressed and when it is it is usually put in a bad light. In kingdom come deliverance it really does flesh out how Christianity was literally part and parcel of peoples everyday lives, it shaped how they thought and behaved and they were constantly expressing this internally and externally in their everyday lives
 
I was raised in the C Church and filled with the Holy Spirit at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in 1981. I, in a sense consider myself Catholic because I am a living stone in the universal house of God.
 
Well then words and ideas have no real meaning. Communicating with them is harmless. That view is not only “nuts” but totally contrary to the word of God. The Apostle Paul said, “take every thought captive…” meaning… be careful to cherry pick the words and ideas that come to you. Why?.. because those words can end up becoming “firey darts” of evil sent by Satan.
 
There is a sect called the “Apostolic Catholic Church” in the Philippines. Founded in 1992.

It’s not in communion with Rome.
 
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