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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
12-09-2011, 12:54 AM
[QUOTE=Dr. Isaiah Jones;737300]Look, pal, Harry Potter classifies as anti-Christian literature. It is clearly an attempt at converting our children to paganism. America is a Christian nation and thus we should not be tolerating witchcraft nor anything that goes against God's word.
First of all, my god, how close minded and arrogant can some people get? It is a work of fiction, if you don't like it, don't read it! Almost everybody here is a sexist, closed minded person! You people need to seriously go outside and learn a few things about life. This mentality and hate towards other people is what causes wars to go around in this world!
Secondly, you could call America a Christian nation, as Christianity is the majority religion, but the United States is definitely not a Christian nation. That completely crosses the line of the Separation of Church and State border which was put into place by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. Look it up.
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12-09-2011, 01:04 AM
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Neither does it mean that you're right either! Atheism isn't all that bad, I've got morals, just like all of you close minded, "God" loving people do, and hell, I'm glad of being one. I can think outside the box, take more information in, and learn what I want. I don't need the work of fiction you call the Bible to tell me what I can and cannot do.
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07-07-2012, 05:18 PM
wow, well I went to Catholic school for 8 yrs & I love God, but guess what I'm watching now...HARRY POTTER!!! Best books & movies ever made
It's just a story..a great one at that.
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07-07-2012, 05:21 PM
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wow, well I went to Catholic school for 8 yrs . . . but guess what I'm watching now...HARRY POTTER!!!
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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
07-09-2012, 09:04 PM
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wow, well I went to Catholic school for 8 yrs & I love God,
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But loving God and being a Catholic are mutually exclusive.
You love the Pope, and dead Mary. You hate God, which is why you disobey Him and worship dead humans and practice ritual cannibalism.
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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
07-10-2012, 09:54 PM
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But loving God and being a Catholic are mutually exclusive.
You love the Pope, and dead Mary. You hate God, which is why you disobey Him and worship dead humans and practice ritual cannibalism.
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First of all, u don't know me so don't EVER say I hate God. I take that very personal. You so called ''True Christians'' take the Bible and twist it around and come up with these warped concepts about Harry Potter is evil, being gay is wrong and all the other ridiculous things I've heard, when in fact you're just a bunch of hypocrites because God loves all his children. Preach love, not hate & that's real talk.
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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
07-10-2012, 10:23 PM
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...You so called ''True Christians'' take the Bible and twist it around...
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Twist it? How? Where? The pastors on here insist that all points being made are backed up by DIRECT quotes from the Bible, IN CONTEXT. If you feel that anything from the Bible is being misused or misunderstood somehow, please raise the specific Scripture in question, or feel free to shut up.
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... and come up with these warped concepts about Harry Potter is evil, being gay is wrong and all the other ridiculous things I've heard...
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All backed up by DIRECT quotes from the BIBLE (try reading it sometime, you'll learn a lot ).
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..., when in fact you're just a bunch of hypocrites because God loves all his children...
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Who are His children (according to the Bible)? Those who follow the Bible and do His will are His children. The other 99% of the human population, not so much.
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...Preach love, not hate & that's real talk.
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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
07-10-2012, 10:47 PM
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First of all, u don't know me so don't EVER say I hate God. I take that very personal. You so called ''True Christians'' take the Bible and twist it around and come up with these warped concepts about Harry Potter is evil, being gay is wrong and all the other ridiculous things I've heard, when in fact you're just a bunch of hypocrites because God loves all his children. Preach love, not hate & that's real talk.
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Your name indicates that you are a woman, which means you're not that bright according to Jesus.
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07-11-2012, 02:31 AM
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or feel free to shut up.
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God gave me a mouth to speak how I feel & hands to type what I want & the intelligence to use them. Not so sure about your intelligence though.
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Who are His children (according to the Bible)? Those who follow the Bible and do His will are His children. The other 99% of the human population, not so much.
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Don't know what Bible you're reading from.
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Negative...I'm Catholic. Don't get it twisted.
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Your name indicates that you are a woman, which means you're not that bright according to Jesus.
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I'm not even gonna waste my time on that ignorant comment. You people need help seriously. I'll leave that in Gods hands to deal with you, cause this bantering with people who think they know it all is not going anywhere.
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07-11-2012, 02:37 AM
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First of all, u don't know me so don't EVER say I hate God. I take that very personal.
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If you don't hate God, why do you ignore the Bible and pray to dead people and statues, and practice ritual cannibalism? Idolatry and all the other traditions of men are things the Bible specifically commands us to avoid, and God declares them abominations.
If you loved God, you would obey Him instead of Satan's Representative on Earth, the Pope.
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07-11-2012, 02:42 AM
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Negative...I'm Catholic. Don't get it twisted.
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That is negative. Catholics aren't even Christians. Read THIS.
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But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 14:34-36
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
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Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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07-11-2012, 02:46 AM
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If you don't hate God, why do you ignore the Bible and pray to dead people and statues, and practice ritual cannibalism? Idolatry and all the other traditions of men are things the Bible specifically commands us to avoid, and God declares them abominations.
If you loved God, you would obey Him instead of Satan's Representative on Earth, the Pope.
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How am I praying to dead people? Because I like a real book and movie? I don't see any sense in that and I could care less about the pope or what he says. He's not my Father in Heaven.
Look everybody has their own opinions and how they interpret the Bible and obviously our ways are totally different. I'll respect yours and you should respect mine, but saying I follow the devil because I like a book & that I'm not that bright because I'm a woman is totally uncalled for.
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07-11-2012, 02:50 AM
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How am I praying to dead people? Because I like a real book and movie? I don't see any sense in that and I could care less about the pope or what he says. He's not my Father in Heaven.
Look everybody has their own opinions and how they interpret the Bible and obviously our ways are totally different. I'll respect yours and you should respect mine, but saying I follow the devil because I like a book & that I'm not that bright because I'm a woman is totally uncalled for.
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Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
07-11-2012, 02:57 AM
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...If you feel that anything from the Bible is being misused or misunderstood somehow, please raise the specific Scripture in question, or feel free to shut up...
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Um, yeah, that.
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...Look everybody has their own opinions and how they interpret the Bible...
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2 Peter 1:20 "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation."
Read it, don't "interpret" it. That's how the Catholics keep adding stuff, like how Mary was ALSO the product of a virgin birth (NOT in the Bible), prayers to saints (dead people), transubstantiation (ie. ritualized cannibalism, if you eat Jesus, you also shit Him out, like ewww), Papal infallibilty (even when they keep changing their minds), etc.
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07-11-2012, 03:39 AM
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How am I praying to dead people?
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Mary is dead.
Saints are dead.
They can't hear you. Ecclesiastes 9:5.
YOU PRAY TO DEAD PEOPLE instead of to GOD.
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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
08-07-2012, 06:11 PM
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but saying I follow the devil because I like a book & that I'm not that bright because I'm a woman is totally uncalled for.
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It is called for because women are prone to learn to be busybodies, and are thus, dull. This is why men are the teachers of their woman at home.
1 Tomothy
5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
It is no wonder that Rowlings wrote the abomination that she did, and why she practices witchcraft in the backwoods.
Of course, your dullness is confirmed by your satanic taste in books and the papacy and an apparent case of frothing at the mouth.
Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Deuteronomy32:35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Jerimiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Numbers 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Leviticus24:14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Ephesians5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
05-13-2013, 09:00 AM
Hi! I saw this thread linked on another site, and I just couldn't resist! Big fan of Harry Potter, so I don't really understand the aversion to this series. I read the OP's list of rationale, and there are maybe a couple that hold water in your belief system, but they're a bit of a stretch, and the rest just don't really even make sense in the context of your argument...
First: Harry Potter has nothing to do with real Witchcraft. Not even a passing resemblance. It is fantasy, creativity, imagination and wonder - and these are the things you take from your children when you frighten them away from it, and stories like it. And while its a shame to lose out on the fun of reading, losing out on those qualities is a true shame, especially for a child.
Second: While burning books may bring you some kind of incomprehensible thrill, and while the book burnings of yore may have succeeded in permanently destroying accumulated knowledge, in this day and age of mass printing and digital storage, burning a book does no lasting damage to the knowledge base. So at least roast marshmallows on them or something, so that all those trees didn't die totally in vain, while the rest of us whip out our iPads and read some more Harry Potter.
Three: If you had actually read Harry Potter, instead of hating something before you even know what it is, you would find it rife with Christian values and metaphors. Almost annoyingly so.
Example (SPOILERS AHEAD): the entire climax of the series is predicated on a willing sacrifice of the main character's life to save everyone he loves; a sacrifice which then destroys the evil wizard's power to harm the innocent; the main character then comes back to life, because the evil wizard, in spite of his great power, did not have the power to destroy him, because he had no understanding of the power of selfless love that the main character evoked by giving his life for his friends. Direct metaphor for how Jesus willingly died to save mankind, and thereby destroy the devils power. How can you possibly complain about that? And that's just one example.
Four: I cannot count the number of Harry Potter Confessions I've read on other sites, from kids who said "My parents wouldn't let me read Harry Potter because its agaisnt our religion, but I snuck a copy from a friend at school and read it anyway." This is the era of the internet; if your kids want to read it, they will find a way to read it. And all you do by banning it, is make it look more desirable and cool; you may as well bow to the inevitable.
Five: Harry Potter is just plain entertaining! None of you would know that, since you won't allow yourselves to touch it (because it has cooties and you're not allowed to use your imaginations, I guess?) but there's a reason its so popular! Great storytelling, compelling characters that display excellent dynamic development over the course of the story, a magnificent and vivid setting, plenty of plot twists - you're missing out!
So anyway, one wonders why you need to be so afraid of a story; surely your beliefs are not so flimsy that merely reading a children's book will cause you to lose your religion. So I am mystified by the deep and abiding terror and hatred a children's tale has inspired in a group of supposedly strong and faithful adults...
Anyway, I challenge you to read the books! *dat dat daaaah!* You would see that they are nothing dangerous or subversive, just good story telling - and you can always go on hating them afterwards.
Sincerely ~ your friendly neighborhood Pagan
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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
05-13-2013, 09:25 AM
Do you know what the Bible says about wizards?
That's right, the same thing it says about beastialism enthusiast, murderers, incestualism and gays.
Do you really think it is okay for children to be shown doing any of these activities? Really?
That's just sick and it shows how far atheists will go to send the vibrant, clean limbed young youths and girls to Hell.
Shame on you!
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Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
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Re: 12 reasons Harry Potter should be banned -
05-13-2013, 12:49 PM
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Example (SPOILERS AHEAD): the entire climax of the series is predicated on a willing sacrifice of the main character's life to save everyone he loves; a sacrifice which then destroys the evil wizard's power to harm the innocent; the main character then comes back to life, because the evil wizard, in spite of his great power, did not have the power to destroy him, because he had no understanding of the power of selfless love that the main character evoked by giving his life for his friends. Direct metaphor for how Jesus willingly died to save mankind, and thereby destroy the devils power. How can you possibly complain about that? And that's just one example.
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How dare you compare Jesus to damn wizard?
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05-13-2013, 03:50 PM
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So anyway, one wonders why you need to be so afraid of a story
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Because they seduce innocent children into a path that will lead to eternal damnation in the fires of Hell. Everyone who doesn't hate children should be afraid of this.
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I did read the books. All of them. I also watched all the movies. They were filled with page after page of insults to God. As soon as Sarah Palin implements Biblical law in America the witch who wrote these dreadful books should be burned along with her books.
Freedom means voting for Donald Trump!
To most "Christians" The Bible is like a license agreement. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree". All those "Christians" will burn in Hell!
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