How to cure a witch: Catholic Church issues guide in Britain to turn the tables on Harry Potter

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DeoSalvatoreMeo said:
If you are trying to convert us to your beliefs, I just want to let you know that making snarky posts about obvious typos is not helping your cause. It’s just irritating.
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I love how so many on here can dish out snark but cannot take it.

Also nice infraction baiting you got there.
 
DeoSalvatoreMeo said:
If you are trying to convert us to your beliefs, I just want to let you know that making snarky posts about obvious typos is not helping your cause. It’s just irritating.

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I am not.

Pleasing stop projecting.

Not everyone feels the need to convert others to their viewpoint. Evangelism may be a Catholic virtue/principal but it is not one of mine (at least in this area).
 
Again, thread title’s misleading, like just about EVERY headline having anything whatever to do with the Church.

IF—and that’s a big IF—the HP series were to lead anyone into real witchcraft, then they were 98% there already.

Let’s ban pencils. People use them to write THOUGHTS which could lead anyone astray!
 
AngryAtheist8 said:
I am not.

Pleasing stop projecting.

Not everyone feels the need to convert others to their viewpoint. Evangelism may be a Catholic virtue/principal but it is not one of mine (at least in this area).
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Infraction baiting Angry. They cannot defeat your talks so they will now try to get you banned for prosyltizing.
 
Sailor_Kenshin said:
Again, thread title’s misleading, like just about EVERY headline having anything whatever to do with the Church.

IF—and that’s a big IF—the HP series were to lead anyone into real witchcraft, then they were 98% there already.

Let’s ban pencils. People use them to write THOUGHTS which could lead anyone astray!
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THIS! At the most it might lead the person to look into the real world Pagan faiths and methods of magic.

Also on Crowley I found all of ONE reference to him in the series. Book 4 (coincidently Book 4 or Liber Aba is Crowley’s Magnum Opus nick named the Big Blue Brick due to it’s massive size 9.9 x 7.5 x 2.6 inches weighs 4.9 pounds) has Hermione accused of being a “scarlet woman” Crowley’s term for his ‘ladies of lose virtue.’ That’s it.
 
Hello could u please help ,i am a radio presenter hosting one of the biggest paranormal radio shows in the world we have approx 250,000 listeners a week , and since this book has been released , we have been inundated with complaints from pagans and wiccan s alike, however reading some of the posts ion here it seems to me that the church doesnt actually endorse this literature, am i correct in assuming this,
could someone or a few of the people on here please give me the views and opinions on this topic, as we are doing a show on this on Sunday, i do not wish to offend anybody i am just trying to get a balanced debate , if people would like to reply then u can e mail me at the address on my members page , and i can assure any identity will be kept private,
And if possible what are the views on christian Witches
i thanku in advance john
 
Thanks very much for your reply , yes we are in Kernow,
I appreciate you taking the time to reply , it would b great to have a few though that would then relate to a general concentious,of opinion
i have to agree on one of your points
I cannot work out how there could be Christian Witches, yet if you google this you will see that they are springing up all over,
AgaIN THANKU FOR YOUR TIME
JOHN
 
manualman said:
There are certainly christian themes in HP, but it is fatally flawed as an actual allegory. Don’t get me wrong, I read every one and enjoyed them greatly, but there are as many problems as there are positive themes. While I don’t agree with those who place Potter on the same level as blatantly opposed to the faith (like the Gloden Compass series), neither does it rise to the level of christian allegory like Narnia or Lord of the Rings. Instead, I’d say the author may have intended to incorporate some christian themes, but she’s either not educated enough in christian theology to pull it off or she simply doesn’t believe in the totality of christian revelation.
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Either that, or possibly she used Christian motifs without intending to write a true allegory. That seems the most likely to me.
 
‘Christian Witches’ do not understand or practice either of the faiths they profess to follow. It is an attempt to gain a ‘powerful’ and ‘glamorous’ social identity, as well as an attempt to ‘have the best of both worlds’. Being Christian isn’t cool, being a Witch is, but what if the Christians have it right? I know, I’ll call myself a ‘Christian Witch’, then I am cool and right!

Same process with the ‘Catholic Buddhists’.

I know whereof I speak 😉
 
Flavius_Aetius said:
Though the article itself is pretty much rubbish as others have said, it does lead to an interesting if not a bit depressing turn of events.

It seems that the age of Evangilizing is pretty much dead; I mean there was a time when the entire world was majorily pagan and more pagan than any of the neo beliefs that turn up now and somehow this majority was overtaken by Christianity which was more or less considered a Slaves’ religion for the longest time.

Compared to then it’s quite the Dark Age for faith nowadays, with protestants believing in there own groups teachings despite being splinters of a splinter group, atheists who need not do anything but point fingers and hide behind there caim of merely having non-belief, and now pagans who most of the time are just disgruntled former Christians who don’t want to be held back in there liberal lifestyle.
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Interesting Viewpoint. I mostly agree with it. Good Show.👍
 
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