HARRY POTTER SHOULD BE OUT!

[superdave]

There is definitely a place for fantasy in our reading and watching habits, it is just important to make sure your kids are old enough to understand the difference between whats real and whats not, plus be involved in what they are reading and use it as an opportunity to teach them what you want them to learn rather than allowing them to be swayed by every wind of doctrine. This implies that you have a defined purpose and desire for what specific things you want your kids to learn.

 

[Phillip]

I think it is interesting how some people will say Harry Potter is training for Wiccan, while Return of the King is great. I have seen both. I have heard the stories of the supposed underlying story of Tolkein's books.

Go see both movies. You will see more violence in the Return of the King and just as much magic as you do in Harry Potter. They are just different stories at different levels and they are WORKS OF FICTION.

Soon, people will be saying that all works of fiction should be out if they are not Scripturally accurate. If that was the case---it wouldn't be FICTION.

 

[Karen]

Originally posted by Phillip:
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Soon, people will be saying that all works of fiction should be out if they are not Scripturally accurate. If that was the case---it wouldn't be FICTION.

That already happened. We tend to think now that reading Shakespeare is a good thing, but Puritans of that era stayed out of the theater. Novel reading even 75 or a hundred years ago was often considered a sin. Not because an individual novel had a bad subject but because fiction per se was seen as a form of lying and/or a breaking of the Second Commandment.

Evangelical and fundamentalist Christians have long struggled to decide what is a proper use of imagination and art. It is no accident that our churches are often plain in appearance.

Modern fundamentalists often do not go to the movie theater because someone might think they were going to a bad movie. So they will wait till it comes out on DVD.
Many old-time fundamentalists would have said that any image is per se bad, so they would not watch the DVD either. Or read the book the movie was based on.

Karen