So as long as you realize that the movie is fiction and seeing it will not inflence your faith then you can.
Fantasy stories are fine, my only problem with HP is that the stories tend to blur the lines between good and evil. The Lord of the Rings also has magical-type powers, and the Wizard of Oz has witches, etc…yet in those stories the good side is very well defined as well as the evil or bad side. No-one would look at an Orc and think it represents good. HP, on the other hand, uses magic supposedly for the good, yet sometimes it is hard to see the clear good/bad lines in those tales.
Actually all the stories have characters that may be good or evil and by the end of the book you find out the character may be different from what you thought.
Baseless to want stories to stick to the faith by creating stories that are clerly good versus evil? Interesting take.
What I meant is that to force all authors to stick to purely evil and purely good characters in order to have it watched by “true” Catholics/Christians would be uncalled for. Honestly it would be boring reading about characters that can not evolve or change. Based on purely evil or purely good then you would have to get rid of the Star Wars series because over the series Darth Vader goes from good to evil and then at last minute redeems himself. That doesn’t sound like pure good versus pure evil.Baseless to want stories to stick to the faith by creating stories that are clerly good versus evil? Interesting take.
I do not agree and a couple years ago would have gone into great detail as to why I think HP is a very bad thing, yet the HP stories have been talked into the ground and I really cannot conceived of anyone changing their minds at this point.
That’s why the first line of my first response said “This has been discussed numerous times on here. Search through the archives for Harry Potter.”…yet the HP stories have been talked into the ground and I really cannot conceived of anyone changing their minds at this point.
I have not let my kids watch/read HP…take that for whatever it is worth.I really dont know what to think. It seems like it would be ok to watch but isnt the content in it against the Church?It seems like watching something that is against the Church is wrong. Mabye im being paranoid
It would be wrong NOT to see them!
The movie is a fantasy. Other then the use of witchcraft there is nothing “against the church” in it. Magic is involved in many fantasy novels, everything from Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, the Chronicles of Narnia to the Wizard of Oz.I really dont know what to think. It seems like it would be ok to watch but isnt the content in it against the Church?It seems like watching something that is against the Church is wrong. Mabye im being paranoid
The USCCB has not proved to be good at reviewing movies.
Notice how I phrased my statement “The USCCB reviews give you a good idea of whether a movie is morally objectionable or not but beyond that it is your decision.” I never said the reviews were complete or about the quality of the reviews, they however are pretty good at picking when a movie is totally “morally objectionable” or not. Honestly, it is probably one of the best sites I have seen for that. People may disagree with individual reviews (i.e. the Brokeback Mountain debacle) but by and large they are a pretty good starting point.
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I do not agree, I have seen several reviews that I strongly disagree with on a moral level and have at times been very shocked with favorable reviews they have given to trash. The problem is the Bishops have absolutely nothing to do with the reviews, they do not even read them, much less approve them. It is a misleading thing to have those reviews posted under the umbrella of the USCCB because Catholics think they are from the Bishops.
Honestly that is your opinion, and you can do with it what you want. If you do not agree then don’t go to a movie or don’t send your kids. That is your right. It is a fine line determining whether a movie can be seen by a person that can discern the good from the bad and whether one is totally morally objectionable. Just because a movie may not agree with church teaching doesn’t make it morally objectionable. A well informed person and a person well grounded in the faith can view movies they rate with a ‘L’. For good reason (i.e. scholarly research, etc.) they can even view those with a ‘M’. As for youth in the end it is up to the parents to review what their kids are seeing and not the job of anyone else.
I think you are quite wrong here. Have you read the books? I find that they have a very true and realistic view of good and evil in regards to human beings. It is not a dualistic view, which is wrong, where things are just black and white. The book Chamber of Secrets sums it up quite well by saying that it is our actions that make us who we are, that determine whether we follow the path of good or of evil. How is that blurring the lines? It actually seems to be a very accurate and Catholic understanding to me.
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