I was wrong about Harry Potter

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I’m glad I read this thread , otherwise I might have made the huge mistake of buying all these EVIL books and films for Christmas.
which brings me to another important point; I have firmly concluded that SANTA will NOT be welcome into our home this year, for a number of different reasons:

firstly he wears a red suit and likes to take the focus off Jesus, which is way too similar to another shady charachter I can think of. At Chrismas time he has shrines in every corner which are faithfully visited by his devotees.He promises children their hearts desire, yet fails to deliver.
His religion is greed and materialism and his devotees are encouraged to be self-indulgent.He is the epitome of gluttony and drunkenness, what with all that eating and drinking. He allows his devotees to call him **FATHER **christmas . Not to metion that he has convinced parents that it is a good idea to wait in line to sit their children on his lap, and PAY to for this “privellage”. :confused:
As well as all this, he obviously dabbles in the black arts, which give him dark power to
1) levitate reindeer and an enourmous sleigh.
2) Lift the enourmous weight of toys for every girl and boy.
3) travel faster than the speed of light.
4) allow him to spy on every child in the world at all times (I suppose this could be done with modern technology as opposed to black arts, but apparently he’s been doing this for centuries!)
His whole exsistence relys on blatant lies from parents to their children!
Lastly, and most importantly, his name is “Santa” which is an anagram of “Satan”.
Do not be fooled!!
Children beware!!! :bigyikes: :signofcross:
 
Pat_the_Cat said:
I’m glad I read this thread , otherwise I might have made the huge mistake of buying all these EVIL books and films for Christmas.
which brings me to another important point; I have firmly concluded that SANTA will NOT be welcome into our home this year, for a number of different reasons:

firstly he wears a red suit and likes to take the focus off Jesus, which is way too similar to another shady charachter I can think of. At Chrismas time he has shrines in every corner which are faithfully visited by his devotees.He promises children their hearts desire, yet fails to deliver.
His religion is greed and materialism and his devotees are encouraged to be self-indulgent.He is the epitome of gluttony and drunkenness, what with all that eating and drinking. He allows his devotees to call him **FATHER **christmas . Not to metion that he has convinced parents that it is a good idea to wait in line to sit their children on his lap, and PAY to for this “privellage”. :confused:
As well as all this, he obviously dabbles in the black arts, which give him dark power to
  1. levitate reindeer and an enourmous sleigh.
  2. Lift the enourmous weight of toys for every girl and boy.
  3. travel faster than the speed of light.
  4. allow him to spy on every child in the world at all times (I suppose this could be done with modern technology as opposed to black arts, but apparently he’s been doing this for centuries!)
    His whole exsistence relys on blatant lies from parents to their children!
    Lastly, and most importantly, his name is “Santa” which is an anagram of “Satan”.
    Do not be fooled!!
    Children beware!!! :bigyikes: :signofcross:
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Lets no foget the cruelty to animals(if he loved those reindeers he’d lose some weight) and his callous exploitation of Elves.

As far as Celebrating Christmas goes the fact that Christmas trees were in the Harry Potter books means we must reject it.
 
Lets add a few more

Little Mermaid----Have you seen what she wears and i can’t believe her mom wasn’t around and her dad would just let her swim around all by herself…CHASITY

Little Red Riding Hood- Who lets their daughter go into the woods all alone?

Dr. Seuss book—The Butter Battle Book- Its too political since it is all about nuclear war.
 
beckers said:
Little Red Riding Hood- Who lets their daughter go into the woods all alone?
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‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is not a children’s story in the first place – it’s quite blatantly about the rape and murder of a child. Try reading the originals of those Disneyfied fairy tales, they’re quite something!
 
Mirdath said:
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is not a children’s story in the first place – it’s quite blatantly about the rape and murder of a child. Try reading the originals of those Disneyfied fairy tales, they’re quite something!
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And that is another point. We need to ban all Disney movies because the water down and destory the true stories…
 
Brendan said:
That’s fine, Leviticus said not to suffer a witch to live, remember. You’re not supposed to feel remorseful when you kill witches :cool:

( And technically, Aslan didn’t rip her to shreds, he killed her with a swipe of his paw, 😛 )
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Uh - okay. So, essentially, Harry Potter could kill anybody in his whole world, other than the Muggles, without any remorse whatsoever, and where would be the harm? Since all of them are witches. 🤷
 
I guess even Winnie the Pooh is off limits if you think about it. Who knows what’s going on among all these animals, and what poor Christopher Robbins must endure! And of course we have an unwed mother, Kanga, with no father in sight. Glorifying theft in the form of honey.

Is there anything at all left out there that is safe?
 
jmcrae said:
Uh - okay. So, essentially, Harry Potter could kill anybody in his whole world, other than the Muggles, without any remorse whatsoever, and where would be the harm? Since all of them are witches. 🤷
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That would appear to be the Case and if Rowling says he is Jesus he could kill at will and lead others to kill and be OK
 
Mirdath said:
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is not a children’s story in the first place – it’s quite blatantly about the rape and murder of a child. Try reading the originals of those Disneyfied fairy tales, they’re quite something!
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I agree Disney did water the fairy tales down. In the original Little Mermaid she does not go on to live happily every after with her man. NOPE, what really happens is she dies! Of course Disney could not end the movie that way so they had to completely change the ending.

I have a copy of some of the originals and it’s interesting to see the changes that Disney has made.

This of course means that all fairy tales are out of the question. :eek:
 
Oh great and wise e-bob…i need expert discernement…what about Lord of the Rings?
 
Shoshana said:
Never mind Barny and the Teletubbies!!!:eek:
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Yes and they are often overlooked as being the two greatest threats to the planet, put along side global warming, I’d say it’s a breeze, and Barney sure has a large footprint.
 
Shoshana said:
Oh great and wise e-bob…i need expert discernement…what about Lord of the Rings?
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Oh, that’s right out. Violence, wizards, the passion and resurrection of Gandalf, the list goes on and on.

The Hobbit, though, is even worse. The only way Bilbo, our protagonist (none too upstanding from the beginning; he’s practically an avatar of gluttony), manages to scrape through all the very tight spots he’s in is through pure vile deceit. Is this the sort of example we want our children to look up to? Should their role models be the kind of person who’d hide in liquor barrels, cheat troglodytes out of their most prized possessions, violate contracts by keeping Arkenstones, and flatter evildoers until they can get someone else to strike a killing blow – coincidentally resulting in the ‘collateral damage’ of an entire town?
 
Mirdath said:
Oh, that’s right out. Violence, wizards, the passion and resurrection of Gandalf, the list goes on and on.

The Hobbit, though, is even worse. The only way Bilbo, our protagonist (none too upstanding from the beginning; he’s practically an avatar of gluttony), manages to scrape through all the very tight spots he’s in is through pure vile deceit. Is this the sort of example we want our children to look up to? Should their role models be the kind of person who’d hide in liquor barrels, cheat troglodytes out of their most prized possessions, violate contracts by keeping Arkenstones, and flatter evildoers until they can get someone else to strike a killing blow – coincidentally resulting in the ‘collateral damage’ of an entire town?
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Not to mention robbing a poor homeless, mentally ill person (Gollum) of his only valuable possession (the Ring).
 
I’m very ashamed now to admit that two of my favorite books as a child were Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien and From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg.

O’Brien’s book clearly shows contempt for modern science by having an evil neurologist and his evil apprentices torture a bunch of rats by injecting them against their will with who-knows-what so that the rats would have longer lifespans and be smarter. Then the rats escape and try to build a civilization. In the end they become corrupted by socialistic idealism and vow to start a commune in a far-off mountain valley.

But Konigsburg’s book is even worse: Two children run away from home, clearly as a result of abuse by their parents (the older child Claudia recounts a litany of their sins against her, the first and second of which being that she is expected to do chores and to occasionally walk her baby brother home from school). The children then take refuge in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the adults in charge are clearly too incompetent to know that the museum is not completely empty of visitors when they lock it down at night. Finally the kids go to an elderly lady who rewards them for running away by promising to will to them a valuable drawing attributed to Michelangelo.

/satire

Seriously, I don’t think very many stories in the history of literature could withstand the kind of hyper-scrutiny given J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
 
Is there a Catholic link that tells the truth and what the original tales are? Thanks.
 
bones_IV said:
Is there a Catholic link that tells the truth and what the original tales are? Thanks.
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I don’t have a Catholic link for you. But one source for original versions of the fairy tales is Grimm’s Grimmest. The Amazon.com description of the book states:
Murder, kidnapping, cruel and unusual punishment, violent revenge these are not the bedtime stories mummy used to read. Newly reissued with a fresh cover, Grimm’s Grimmest presents nineteen original, unsanitized, wholly unholy tales as they were first collected by the Brothers Grimm circa 1822 all fiendishly illustrated. The tales harken back to a time when travelers risked roasting or worse, and bad manners yielded frightful consequences. An insightful introduction makes sense of the mayhem, shedding light on how the Grimm brothers went from macabre to mainstream in fairly short order. From the true horror of Aschenputtel (the original Cinderella story) to Rapunzel’s dark secret, Grimm’s Grimmest features the authentic stories born long ago in the land of the Black Forest, at a time when fairy tales never ended happily ever after.
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I’ve long thought that the HP series is best understood in the tradition of the fairy tale, but not the Disneyfied, sanitized-for-children versions of the traditional fairy tales that most people think of when they hear the term fairy tale.
 
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