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7/16/2007
12:01:31 pm EDT
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Witch Is Right?
Author: Mark Hughes Cobb Source: Tuscaloosa News (AL)
Title: WITCH IS RIGHT?
At the turn of the century, parents were frightened for their children, who were reading fantasy books full of witches, wizards, magical adventures and all manner of strange and wild creatures.
Yes, in 1900 there was quite an uproar about L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” the first in a series of books, which are now – as is the famed 1939 movie adaptation – considered family classics.
To ban all mentions of witches, witchcraft and sorcery from the arts would require an enchanted broom to sweep through not only Oz, but Narnia, Shakespeare, “Bewitched,” Arthurian legend, Grimm’s fairytales, Mother Goose and countless other stories both silly and serious.
Yet some fearful parents still seek to repress Harry Potter in the belief that these stories have power to lead children to evil.
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| If You Are Worried About Your Children . . . | Jul 18th. at 1:20:40 am EDT
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
being led to evil, worry more about MTV and people magazine than HP and company. The real world is leading children to evil fast enough without worrying about a fantasy novel that encourages fighting for good over evil.
However, christians don't look at it that way - anything that requires reading and not looking at pictures is probably too much to ask. That is why they allow their preachers to tell them what to think - they can't possibly have read the bible and understood it, can they? Talk about evil.
As an aside - I would never allow a small child to read Grimm's fairy tales - they are horror stories (except the golden books versions of course) that would give most small children nightmares.
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| Too Busy Looking At Pictures, I Guess. | Jul 17th. at 4:07:43 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Now that is interesting. Someone who has actually read the Harry Potter Books.
Indeed, much of the condemnation has arisen from the fact that not many read before they attempt to condemn something because of the way it looks on the cover. Not for what is actually in it.
I'm surprised that some Fundies read at all, considering that they are all too ready to proclaim their ignorance to the world as a matter of pride!
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| Irony | Jul 17th. at 1:44:16 am EDT
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arinna (Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina) - Email Me
I liked the article. It seems a simple point to say that if you are going to condemn a book, you should read it first. But it never hurts to repeat it over and over for the slow witted people who just can't seem to get it.
Something popped out at me when I read the article that I hadn't really thought of before. Just by looking at the picture of the patronus coming out of Luna Lovegoods wand I realized how ridiculous it is to think the Harry Potter books will encourage kids to use magic. After seeing the special effects and reading of this fanciful magic, most kids would find the real variety boring and lacking in results. I mean who would find real magick that requires real willpower, patience and real world effort and doesn't come with any flashy lights or gusts of wind exciting at all?
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| Finally Someone Reads Them First... | Jul 16th. at 6:34:55 pm EDT
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Lady Aurora (Medford, Massachusetts) - Email Me
instead of jumping on the band wagon without knowing exactly what you are against.
I have a Catholic daugther-in-law who a few years ago stated that her children would never read the HP books because of the witchcraft.
I think she has finally seen the light - so to speak. She let her oldest start to read the Narnia Chronicles and has changed her mind about HP. She watch a movie or two and basically said that since her oldest gets scared easily she would wait another year or so before letting him read/see HP. She realizes now that it is just fantasy, like Narnia, Grimm's, ect.
I had said, look read them first, then decide; but don't make a blanket decision because your mom is against it or your church.
Her mom is a whole other story though. Whenever there is a family gathering some how the conversation will eventually lead to politics and religion. The last time she was bemoning the fact that her nephew, who is gay, won't listen to her about sinning. And she uses the "hate the sin, love the sinner" line along with the usual bible bull that funndies love to use when talking about gays, etc. Anyway, when I pointed out that in Exodous it says suffer not a witch to live (I am a witch) , she is suposed to kill me. Naturally she started to go off topic. Funny how that happens with some people when you point out the wrongness of their statements, they go off topic.
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| ... | Jul 16th. at 6:13:14 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
Good article, especially on how they emphasise how mentally slow fundies are.
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