Irritating religious bandwagons on which to jump on.
I get excited about the new Harry Potter things that come out. I fought it for a long time, but I was so happy that SOMETHING had kids into books that I just had to check it out... fast forward a few weeks later and I was one of the idiots waiting in line to pre-order and get my free Harry Potter t-shirt.
It's the time honored literary subject of good vs. evil with a little imagination mixed in. Now, these people that claim that it glorifies devil-worshipping and just plain "bad" things obviously haven't read it and are just way too easily swayed by religious leaders that love to create a craze to get people into the pews. I'm not hatin' on 'em for getting people in there, it's marketing for them too! But if you're truly going to be against this stuff, you can't pick and choose and just be against the stuff that's super popular and gets people to listen to you. You have to be against EVERYTHING that uses magic and anything that could possible (gasp) spark a young child's imagination and make them think that anything's possible. So in order to help them out, here are a few more things that they better get people freaked out about also:
1. Cinderella - Um, yeah there's a witchcraft spewing fairy godmother in this also.
2. Sleeping Beauty - More devil-worshipping witches!
3. Snow White - You guessed it! MORE! (IS DISNEY RUN BY SATAN?????)
4. Beauty and the Beast - Magic AND glorified beastiality.
5. Alice in Wonderland - That's an acid trip if I've ever seen one.
Need I go on? No. Moral of the story: Think about it for a second and see what you're REALLY repeating from someone. You might just sound like a fool. Boo yeah.
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Quite frankly, I get really upset when people try to get others to believe in the apparent anti-Christian sentiment in Harry Potter. It does not glorify witchcraft or sorcery. It glorifies good winning over evil. It glorifies having faith in kids. It glorifies standing up for beliefs. It does however glorifies gnargles.
To me it just seems like, "Why should we ban Harry Potter? Because in this one spell they use Wormwood. And Wormwood was used in Absinthe to make people hallucinate. And Absinthe is alcohol. And we all know that alcohol is the Devil's tit milk. The Devil drinks alcohol and gets all hopped up and listens to that rock-and-roll ruckus, hip thrusting all over the place. Harry Potter makes you hip thrust with the Devil!" Please.
yummmmm.....Devil's tit milk, tasty!
I couldn't agree more. Half the time these people are just talking out their ass and have no real educated facts to base their decisions on. If you read these books and in fact really do not want your kids to read them, I am ok with that. But like you said Nadja, you also need to take a look at some of the other things you ARE allowing your kids to read/watch.
However, I think we can ALL agree that we need to stop talking about Gnargles....they are surly little creatures.
I was on the misinformed "Don't read Harry Potter Bandwagon" for awhile. Through the release of the first 4 books to be exact. (I know, I know...)
Then I thought, "Hey, let's try it out and see what all this ruckus is about." So, I opened my mind and read the first book.
One week later I had ALL four of the first book read. When the fifth & sixth books came out I purchased them the DAY they came out and read them in two days.
I agree wholeheartedly that people jump to conclusions too quickly about something they don't even have true knowledge of.
Jesus didn't pass his time blabbing his mouth about stuff like this. He was with the exact people that the 'church' leaders of the time said were outcasts. Today he probably would have hung out with the people who - according to a segment of the church today - are 'sinners' and read Harry Potter.
I was mad about the whole Golden Compass ban by Catholic schools. Um, how bout talk to your kids! Let them have an imagination!
I think that Alladin may or may not glorify the Taliban, and I'm pretty sure that Sebastian in the Little Mermaid was a giant MO. Let's not even go into Snow White living in a house with seven single guys...(WHO-ER) I saw some before and after shots of her "downstairs," and, let's just say the poison apple probably isn't want put her in that coma...bitch was just exhausted.
These poor kids are being discouraged from using their imagination. They're being sheltered from a world of make-believe. If you were really secure in the teachings of the Bible and hold it to be true, then you wouldn't feel threatened by stories of fiction.
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