Censorship…freedom of speech…
He didn’t burn the books and the writer is free to continue to write whatever she wants and the books are available for purchase at any secular bookstore.
Challenging and questioning authority can be good in certain situations. Some people in authority abuse their power. This applies to priests, too! (anyone remember the sexual abuse scandal??)
Well, are not Christians allowed to queston Rowling’s authority and ideas?
Some Christian groups are far less welcoming of people than others. Some so-called Christian groups think it is OK to be violent against gays (Aryan nation is a Christian group who has been violent against people).
**If you think the Ayran nation is anything close to being christian then you don’t understand Ayranism nor Christianity. I didn’t read where this priest advocated violence. **
This priest is Boston has some issues. If kids want to read the books, they can get them from public libraries. In my Catholic school experience, the school library isn’t very big anyway, and most kids use public libraries.
**And the parents are responsible for their children’s choice of reading material and if they want to allow them to read Potter they are free to allow them. But the priest is responsible for what he thinks is proper within the school for which he oversees and he made the proper choice to remove the books from that library. It isn’t like he is leading a march to the public library to burn books. **
I think it will spur MORE interest in the series (not necessarily a bad thing, in my opinion) because the “forbidden” is suddenly of interest.
That is alot of thinking.
I see nothing wrong with Harry Potter. I think it is a wonderful series that has encouraged a whole generation of kids to READ!!
Maybe if parents took more of an interest in their children’s education they would have an interest in reading despite of Harry Potter. My eldest son read the first Potter book when he was 7, but he was already a lover of books and reading by himself at 5.
Most people who over react have never even read the books!
**I’m not most people and a friend of mine last month, age 53 just finished re-reading the first two Potter books, she is was upset about Rowling’s statement also, she felt deceived and she feels that the children were deceived. It really is not so much about of what she wrote, but what she insinuated, that she fooled people and she is proud of fooling people. Otherwise deceit is good. Is that a “Christian” message we should teach our children? ****I didn’t take the books from my children, but they are disappointed in Rowling and don’t understand why she said what she did. She raped their innocence with her misguided statements inorder to promote a misguided idea of what she considers tolerance, which in reality is intolerance of other’s people’s ideas and beliefs. So much for tolerance.
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