Harry Potter teaches Satanism???

This is something that I don't understand at all really. Every single time a new Harry Potter book or movie comes out, and JK takes in another heap of money, people come crawling out of the woodwork to say how Harry Potter is all about Satanism and The Devil. Harry Potter turns children into devil worshippers, at least this is what some people out there will have you believe, although they really have no proof of this. Of course, once again, these are the right wing wackos that are coming out to decry the loss in moral fiber in America and this is just another chapter of that coming out. When kids turn to withcraft and Satan for their entertainment. I have some news for these people, it's fiction. Harry Potter is a fictional character. I guess they don't understand what is real, and what is not real, since they believe in some omnipotent power that has dominion over everything and everyone anyway, so really, the lines of what is real, and what is not real are very blurred for them unfortunately. What they constantly fail to miss though is the simple fact that Harry Potter has pretty much made kids want to read books again. It makes them want to put down the video games, turn off the TV, and read damn it, read. And if you ask me that is a sort of witchcraft, because in order to get kids to read, you almost have to pull teeth, and if one person can make this sort of revolution amongst youngsters, I'm all for it.

I can even see it where I live. Kids lining up outside of bookstores with their parents, camping out, waiting for the newest book to be released at midnight so they can get it, bring it home, and immediately start reading it. This is something that I've never really seen before. Sure I've seen it before for like Duke basketball tickets, or for maybe the new Stars Wars movies, World Series tickets, and things like that, but never before have I seen this happen for a book. A book. Instant gratification is seriously delayed, and yet, there they are. Lined up, waiting outside of book stores so that they can be the first person to have that new book. Then they tear through it, and some will tear through it again, and then once more just so they make sure that they got it all in their brains. Like I said, it's amazing really. How many times have you seen people lined up outside of a bookstore to make sure they get a new book on its first day of release? Not very often, not very often at all. And these Southern preachers and so-called righteous people want to say that it's witchcraft and the devil at work. Come on people, there are some serious issues out there in the world that you could be helping and dealing with, but instead, you attack a work of fiction that is pure fantasy and entertainment? What is your deal? You need something more serious to do. How many kids do you know that think a broom can actually fly? How many kids do you know that think that there are actually things like magic wands in the world? It's a fantasy, it's fiction, and it's entertaining as Hell. Maybe a bad choice of words there, but you know what I mean. The other night I was driving home and one of these guys from Charlotte was on there talking about how Harry Potter leads people down the path to the devil, and this one very Christian woman calls in and says that her son had a hard time reading. He had a learning disability. He had been to tons of learning disability therapists, and nothing was working. They tried reading with him at home every single night, and every single day, and nothing. Along comes the Harry Potter books. Everyone in his classes around him started reading them, talking about them, reading them together, having parties, and since he was feeling left out on the action, he took it upon himself to try and read through the first book on his own. He struggled, but by the time he was done with the first book, he was reading much better, and more easily. As he progressed through the books, his reading acuity has gone through the roof from where it was, and now he reads on the level that he's supposed to read at, and his Mom called in to say that God had answered her prayers in the form of the Harry Potter books, because she had prayed to God almost every day to help with her son. You know what this guy tells this Christian woman? He says, "That wasn't God that answered your prayers. That was Satan the Lord of Darkness, because he brought those books to your son, and you must have been praying to Satan, and not God." Man, she jumped all over this guy, ran up one side of him, and down the other calling him every civil name that she could come up with, because he had just accused this woman who had been a true believing Christian her entire life of praying to the Devil. That's how these guys work down here. It's crazy to me that people jump in line and follow them. This guy, I wish I could remember his name, is the leader of a large church in Charlotte. Don't know what his deal was/is. Actually, I found it. I remembered the website address he was throwing out every other second in his broadcast on talk radio. Take a look at this drivel:

http://www.pawcreek.org/articles/endtimes/HarryPotterAndTheAntichrist.htm

Looking at this website, they offer other such enticements like the Cradle of Civilization tour where they were going to go to Iraq and tour the country, last year. What the hell were they thinking? And how did they think they were going to do it? And who would go? It's a combat zone you dumb asses. People are running around the country that want you dead, and they'll kidnap you and do it. Amazing. Not only do they believe Harry Potter is bad for everyone and is a harbinger of the Devil, but they also want to take tourist trips to Iraq. Yep, good decision making going on at the Paw Creek church down there in Charlotte. I'm sure that these are the same folks who think that Christianity is under attack in this country and that they're losing their rights at every possible turn. These are the people that scare me the most. They are once again going on about how they are the persecuted majority in this country, and they are being persecuted? I don't understand it. They think because they can't have open prayers in school (this doesn't mean of course that you can't pray in school, just do it with yourself and in your head, or even with a group of your friends if you want to, just don't foist a daily prayer on everyone), can't have the damn 10 commandments pasted everywhere, and can't have open prayers in town meetings, or something of that nature. I mean come on people. I thought religion, and Christianity in particular was about the relationship one person has with their savior or their God. Why do you want EVERYONE to be in on it? Why can't you just keep that stuff to yourself, and if people want to join you in that, they'll seek you out. It's not like we're not hit over the head with it everyday of our life for the most part. We're constantly reminded about how this was a Christian country founded on Christian principles, and so on and so forth. Damn, it's even on our money. The good old In God We Trust abomination that was slapped on there in the 50's. I hate to break it to you Christians out there, but not everybody believes in your God and Jesus. Sorry, you're going to have to accept that at some point in time, and stop being all self righteous about it. We do have the freedom to choose don't we? Those who would want to have theocratic society set up in the US based on Christian ideals and thoughts don't think so, but gladly, this is something that will never happen, or I hope would never happen. The dominionists though are some of the most scary individuals out there today. Keep your eyes on those people.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/24/brown.consultant.ap/index.html

I'm going to leave you with this little tid bit posted above, and let you chew on this one for awhile. Michael Brown, the guy that almost single handedly botched the federal FEMA response to Katrina this year is, get this, wait for it... Starting his own consulting business dealing with emergency preparation and preparedness. Are you kidding me? Is anyone going to hire this guy? The freakin' former horse judge is starting his own business? I almost wish that this was an Onion news story, but it's not. It's actually a real story, and it is actually happening. It is utterly amazing to me. He doesn't know what the hell he is doing when it comes to emergency preparedness. He's proven this. Now he's consulting and giving out this information to others? What is he going to do? Tell them what ties to wear on camera, or whether or not to wear one when they are on TV? If you remember the e-mails that were floating around from him, his biggest concerns while the largest disaster in American history was going on was what color tie he should wear, or should he wear a tie, and or did someone find someone to dog-sit for him. This guy is a class A asshole, and he proved that further when he testified in front of Congress and acted like a total ass and gave smug smart assed "answers" on the questions that were posed to him from different Senators. Amazing. As people like to say; Only in America. Only in America.