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I just read that St. Edwards school in Nashville has pulled all the Harry Potter books from the school library because Rev. Dan Reehil believes that the “The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the texts.”
Why on earth does the good reverend believe that the fictional spells and curses created from thin blue air by J. K. Rowling have any magical or mystical power? I have heard some strange reasons for religious institutions to ban various books before, but this may be the strangest.
"It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for what you are not" Andre Gide: 1869 - 1951 Always be yourself because the people that matter don’t mind and the ones that mind don’t matter.
Fred in Skirts wrote:
Why on earth does the good reverend believe that the fictional spells and curses created from thin blue air by J. K. Rowling have any magical or mystical power?
While I don't agree with the action, I think I understand it.
If evil spirits exist, which a literal reading of the Bible would suggest, then someone calling on a spirit to act might get a response. It's not that the spells have power, it's that demons have power.
Some religious organisations in the U.K. objected to the books because they might encourage children to believe in magic. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to see the irony of that.
There is no such thing as a normal person, only someone you don't know very well yet.
It's in someways similar to the political correctness which has been dumped on us, which seeks to ensure that nobody could be offended.
Hey half of the nursery rhymes we had when I was a kid are not banned, and seen as racist or sexist.
Many books we had back then you can't find on the shelves now either
I have always stated that I was an escapee of the Political Correctness Penitentiary.
I do not believe in being politically correct. It just goes against my beliefs. Black is Black and White is White. I do not see everything as gray. They may want us to see only gray but the world is not gray it is in full living colour. And that is how I see it.
"It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for what you are not" Andre Gide: 1869 - 1951 Always be yourself because the people that matter don’t mind and the ones that mind don’t matter.
I saw that on Facebook and was surprised...even though it takes a lot for anything social conservatives do to surprise me any more. It’s something I might have expected from a backwoods snake-handling evangelical school, but not from a Catholic high school. I’d have presumed that such an educational policy would have been approved by some church authority.
As a matter of fact, the sun DOES shine out of my ...
pelmut wrote:Some religious organisations in the U.K. objected to the books because they might encourage children to believe in magic. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to see the irony of that.
With all of the worrying about Health & Safety, maybe the religious orgs think that a child will get hurt trying to access Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross railway station to get onto the Hogwarts Express!
Rather painful to hit a brick wall whilst running full tilt!
Quite a few children probably *believe* in the magic of Harry Potter, but most don't I think. Those that do, and grow out of it, and those that understand from the start that it is fantasy, might end up comparing the believability of the fairly cohesive "Potter Universe" with that of *other stories* they are required to take on faith.
This is, I suspect, is why some people regard them as dangerous.
I remember stories about children trying to fly like Peter Pan. They were surprised it did not work if they survived the jumps. It could be fake news from the 50s and 60s nevertheless. But it looks like there is nothing new under the sun.
The action of the clergy looks like getting rid of any competition.
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