Harry Potter and exorcists

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Thank you for the Catechism quote @adgloriam

PART THREE
LIFE IN CHRIST

SECTION TWO
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

CHAPTER ONE
“YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND”

Divination and magic

2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one’s service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion.

I would like to point out it says all practices of magic and sorcery, this includes the fake ones!
 
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Ok whats next, banning My Little Pony because magical pink talking ponies enter gateways to the demonic? Get real people
 
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My sister is an editor for religious books. She likes Harry Potter. Her coworker didn’t share her sentiment though because of her experiences living in Salem Massachusetts. That town is a hot spot for the occult and the book series is popular among those circles.

Personally, I was messaging a Catholic girl on a dating website and she wanted to know if I was a Harry Potter fan. I respectfully said I wasn’t a “Fan”. She was really angry I didn’t like it! I was a little disturbed that it was such a big deal 🤨
 
Respectfully, you’re coming across as more of a fundamentalist baptist than a Catholic. If you don’t understand the difference between what the Church condemns here and fantasy…I don’t know what else to say.

I deeply resent the ludicrous, uncharitable, absurd accusation that those who read Christian-themed fantasy are dabbling in the Occult.
 
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Cruciferi said:
Personally, I was messaging a Catholic girl on a dating website and she wanted to know if I was a Harry Potter fan. I respectfully said I wasn’t a “Fan”. She was really angry I didn’t like it! I was a little disturbed that it was such a big deal 🤨
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Definitely suspicious.
 
Thank you. And as I said earlier, that’s exactly what Rowling has said: Wicca has no place in her fictional fantasy universe. On the other hand, Gospel themes do.
 
Anyone can get obsessive about anything. Obviously it’s not healthy if your life revolves around any book or tv show.
 
As someone with a background in Anthropolgy/Archaeology it has been prudent to study what the Wiccan/Occult beliefs are. That being said, there is a difference between Harry Potter and actual practices. For some people Harry Potter may provide a connection in a persons brain to study witchcraft. And that probably comes from a state of how they are with their soul. For those of us who know the differance between fantasy stories and reality, it is not a problem. However, if I ever found my child “practicing witchcraft.” There would be a serious discussion…
 
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We interrupt this heated parley of word with a brief intermission…


 
I don’t get the accusations against Harry Potter. After all, don’t Catholics praise the Lord of the Rings novels, and it has magic in them.
 
@TheLittleLady for what it’s worth. I know Edward Peters reputation (single layman ever appointed…😛), and his “review”(more a refutation) is lacking in accuracy - I’ve read through it, Edward Peters manages not to hit the nail a single time (every single one of his arguments is wrong). What more, if he’s gonna pretend to refute a lifetime of work he’d might write a text with some cohesion not some half-witted disparate arguments.

Suffices to say Fr.Amorth was appointed exorcist and kept on so under several papacies. His works and his legacy cannot not be understated. I’ve never heard Ed Peters witness to any extraordinary phenomenon - I’d have him comment after that.
 
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After all I’ve read on the books, I’m not certain. I’ve not read them and don’t feel attracted to read them. If I did have children, I would have to think the matter over more carefully and come to a final decision which I’ve not made as yet.

My hypothesis is that Italy in Fr Amorth’s day was suffering from something of a spiritual vacuum and under those conditions, books of this kind would have a tendency to be particularly dangerous, as practiced Catholicism was in a state of severe decline. Man is a spiritual creature from birth and is ever looking to feel the void with something. Under these circumstances, I believe this books may pose an not insubstantial risk to children and teens.

Devout and intelligent people have been on both sides of this debate.
 
I frankly see it as the person making the big sermon looking for attention. That’s why they are picking the hot book of the moment as opposed to Grimm’s Fairy Tales, “The Sentinel”, or any number of the 10,000 other books or movies or TV shows of the past that could be said to deal with “the occult”.

Not buying it.
 
I am a few weeks offline and the second thing I notice on this board is that someone left a door open to a 1970s alternative dimension with media-paranoid soccer moms in a british village church circle :roll_eyes::roll_eyes::roll_eyes:
 
Harry Potter is the novel that inspired so many other books and movies that use spells and other stupid things. Plus books aren’t really a hot topic with the youth (which is the audience I am concerned about), I could have easily picked a disney show like “Wizards of Beverley Hills” or whatever it’s called. I’ve already addressed the fact that I am protesting against all of those forms of entertainment, not just Harry Potter. It just so happens that Harry Potter is one of the most well known of these…things.
 
Thank you very much for your opinion, it has been appropriately filed…
 
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You cannot post things like this on the forum, Crusadebear. :policewoman:
 
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