January 27, 2012
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Harry Potter is of the Devil
And not just Harry Potter. All kinds of earthly influences are apparently tainted by Satan. Role playing games, songs on the radio, television shows, films, books and much more.
If you’ve ever been forbidden to watch a favorite show, read a beloved paperback or buy music from a favorite band because your religious family and culture featured demonic influence, tell us all about it.
And not just Harry Potter. All kinds of earthly influences are apparently tainted by Satan. Role playing games, songs on the radio, television shows, films, books and much more.
If you’ve ever been forbidden to watch a favorite show, read a beloved paperback or buy music from a favorite band because your religious family and culture featured demonic influence, tell us all about it.
Comments (8)
Don’t you just love ignorant religious people?
I guess you could say that being told not to read Harry Potter was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. When I was a Christian back 2000, I read all the “reviews” about Harry Potter from Christian reviewers, and the pastor at our church warned people not to read the books because they were “satanic” and would lead us into witchcraft. The claims they made about the book series were terrible. I remember thinking, how in the world can something so horrifying be so popular? So I did what I was told not to do. I read the first book. Not only were all the claims about the book false, the book was amazing. Finding out that they’d lied about what was in the books actually reawakened all the questions I’d had since I was a kid about all I’d been told from the church. I started doing research into the claims of Christianity, from perspectives outside the approved list of Christian theologians. I found many inconsistencies from what I’d been told to what I was learning, which spurned me to do more research. I researched other religions that Christian leaders had demonized to find out the truth of what they really believed, and found that the majority of what the leaders had told us about other religions was false. My research went on for years, and although I tried to hold onto my faith, it was increasingly difficult to do so because each truth uncovered burned a bit of it away. In 2007 I realized I no longer believed any of it, and walked away from religion completely. Sorry about the long answer, but that’s my story on what happened when I was told one too many times that I couldn’t read/watch/listen to something.
Oh, and on a side note, JK Rowling is my favorite author. She’s amazing.
Sweetie, don’t get me started…
By the time HP was released I was already a witch, so no worries there, but way back in the early 90s when I was still fundy we were forbidden to indulge in all kinds of things. Remember in the movie ‘Jesus Camp’ when the kids are up late telling ghost stories and innocently entertaining themselves and an adult walks in to chastise them for being up late and telling stories that don’t glorify god? My pastor was opposed to Stephen King books, horror films, scary stories, non-christian writing, rock music, divination (I still had a ouija board at the time that had been a gift from my uncle when I was 17, later had to burn it as part of my becoming a member of the church – but he didn’t get my tarot cards, haha – fuck you, dude!), trick or treating, anything halloween, pretty much everything I loved then and am still into. Feminist literature was a big no-no. He and his wife gve me a copy instead of The Fascinating Woman (Fasinating Womanhood used to be the subtitle but is now the title). Have you read it? It’s like a manual on how to become a Stepford wife. It’s really no wonder I left, christianity was smothering me to death.
The day I decided once and for all to leave all that behind I felt as if I could finally breathe. It’s difficult to describe but that comes closest.
Oh, and video games. We’re constantly being told that video games are the devil. And gay people. But I’d rather walk away from a group with a case of the gay than a case of fundy-itis. By the way, how many units of gay are in a case?
The funny thing is that JK Rowling is a Christian (Anglican).
I never understood the big deal. I mean I’m not a reader, but I have watched all 8 movies and I’m a big fan. I don’t see how anyone can claim it’s satanic or promoting witchcraft when we all can plainly see it’s a fairy tale world and that almost everyone is sane enough to differentiate reality and fantasy.
It’s just retarded.
church sign near my childhood home…SANTA=SATAN
that one was amusing.
I had a friend who was/is baptist and I remember her mom not wanting or letting her read the HP books. She read them anyway.
Still a Christian.
I wasn’t raised like that.
My parents were older than most,
but we were surprisingly able to get away with a lot.
We weren’t allowed to watch threes company or charlie’s angels as little kids(still did)
but really didn’t have many restrictions as teens.
My parents were also either too busy or overwelmed with a lot of relatives sick/dying to monitor much.
My mom also was against banning of books since coming out of ww2/nazi Germany.
As you know,
I’ve been told/had it implied I was not “really a Christian” bc my best friends were atheist, bc I differed in doctrine, or because I stuck up for atheists and criticized christians for arrogance and hypocrisy.
Of course people judged me being close to you and Barry — thought I was on the road to destruction etc.
My once long time friend Abigail used to tell me that I did not have the holy spirit bc I did not speak in tongues. That i did not faith if my circumstances werent changing, that I needed to obey, listen more ( to whatever she believed and wanted me to do),
Also that not wearing only dresses all the time was proof I was not obeying God, that i must have done something wrong if my ex who abused and cheated and left me was not still in my life– that I needed to pray him back.
I’ve finally walked away from that controlling, domineering ” friend”. Also been told that I cried too much — needed to stop wallowing whilst grieving still was new.
The scariest is when people tell you or others despite being completely honest with them, that you/ someone else is evil or
are lying and that they can “just tell” because ” the spirit convicts them”. Or that they know such and such a person is *nsert whatever else. It is that kind of haughty, infallible, power hungry arrogance that i abhor most of all.
Rowling wrote “Harry Potter” to be a Christ-like character. Some people are just too touchy.