Hi Tom,
Yes, I know several groups who have expressly condemned Harry Potter and
some places of worship (not necessarily all Christian) have banned their
members from reading the books. I agree with your point that in the end
Harry Potter shows good character and morale--that friends are
important--and that life is a struggle but you have to keep pressing on. I
am a monotheist, and one problem I've observed with "fundamentalists" is
that they tell you the only real stories are those found in your holy book.
However, kids today are saying "we don't care about them, what happened to
them happened over 2000 years ago." They need something to relate to in
today's times. I see a lot of the common monotheistic practices have been
incorporated into Harry Potter, so that's a perfect example. Yet, religious
groups are banning it everywhere simply because it contains magic. They're
attacking the messenger rather than the message itself and I find that it is
hurting the entire monotheistic faith as a whole, simply because people love
fundamentalism, so when something like this comes out, most people think
"look, this is how a Muslim, or a Jew or a Christian acts. Let's be
atheist!"
Munawar A. Bijani
"Knowledge is of two types: absorbed and heard. The heard knowledge is only
useful if it is absorbed." - Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib, Nahj Al-Balagha
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] My Thoughts: Re: the Jehovah's witnesses viewpointon
gaming
Hi,
That's just another example of how diverse opinions can be between
Christian groups, and why we should be careful not to paint everyone with
the same brush. I've read that J.K. Rowling is suppose to be a Christian,
but yet some Christians revile her for writing Harry Potter. There doesn't
seam to be any rational or logical reasoning behind such a diverse opinion
like that other than the fact some people are more liberal, open minded,
and others see everything in shades of black and white. Weather or not the
Harry Potter books, games, movies, and toys is actually evil, Satanic,
whatever is completely subjective. That's why I think such decisions have
to be personal, and someone should base his/her opinion on facts and good
research rather than on assumptions.
The fact of the matter is there are plenty of good moral lessons found in
each of the Harry Potter books worth teaching our children. In the Deathly
Hallows Harry rescues Drako from certain death even though Drako really
didn't deserve being rescued. However, because Harry was good, a caring
person at heart, he put his own safety on the line to save an enemy. That
shows good moral character, and is worth passing on to our kids. never
mind if the books have magic, people use spells, etc good values are good
values no matter in what medium is used to pass them on weather it is a
game, book, or movie.
Darren Harris wrote:
And yet the author of LOTR himself was a christian and interweeved a lot
of his beliefs into the whole story. So I don't quite get that one.
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