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[clayhornik]

Providence Baptist Ministries couldn't put this on their webpage if it weren't true:
And here is dear Ashley, a 9 year old, the typical average age reader of Harry Potter: "I used to believe in what they taught us at Sunday School," said Ashley, conjuring up an ancient spell to summon Cerebus, the three-headed hound of hell. "But the Harry Potter books showed me that magic is real, something I can learn and use right now, and that the Bible is nothing but Boring lies."
and
"I think it’s absolute rubbish to protest children’s books on the grounds that they are luring children to Satan," Rowling told a London Times reporter in a July 17 interview. "People should be praising them for that! These books guide children to an understanding that the weak, idiotic Son Of God is a living hoax who will be humiliated when the rain of fire comes ... while we, his faithful servants, laugh and cavort in victory."

As funny as these were in The Onion, they're funnier by an order of magnitude on a church website.

Comments

[spimby.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that Onion article got edited and forwarded by fundamentalists almost immediately, and at this point the Harry Potter emails have become an unstoppable juggernaut, pretty much. Bill Ellis' book Lucifer Ascending has a pretty decent account of the whole mess.

[spimby.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, check this out: http://www.greaterthings.com/Lexicon/H/HarryPotter/

Near the bottom of the page, there's a longish piece blaming The Onion for Christian gullability, and suggesting that the piece was intended (by Satan, naturally) to "ensnare" Christians and make their claims about the Potter books seem foolish.

Maybe cause they are foolish....

[ravencadwell.livejournal.com]

You'd think that decent Christians would have better things to do than go apeshit over a harmless children's book. They need to be off doing Christian things such as feeding the homeless, and trying to care for the sick.
But those things are difficult, It's much easier to bitch and moan about a book none of them have ever read.
Oh well, I'll have to check out the aformentioned book, Lucifer Ascending. It sounds interesting.

[theorgangardens.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA...

I'll fear for humanity later.