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All right then, allow me to ask you something: do you perchance watch television—aside from the 700 Club, that is? Because it's absolutely chuck full of sexual immorality, debauchery, hatred, discord, rage, selfishness, factitiousness and drunkeness. If there's anything that has the appearances of evil, it's prime-time T.V. Or is T.V. exempt because it's so mind-destroying and vegetative that it leaves one's brain too bloody paralyzed for Satan to even bother attacking? Oh those blasted books! They'll lead us down the path of destruction yet.

So.... what? No reading The Bible?

No The Bible presents witchcraft as evil, not as something good. Since when did the Bible have any kind of fantasy aspect to it? Last I checked All of the Bible is God Breathed and real.

and as far as that verse goes it was permissable then to have concubines now its not. Look at king Soloman he had how many wives and almost double the amount of Concubines?

In the story I posted, there was basically no condemnation of the acts that occoured. Only a single line about how the world was shocked and, considering the rest of The Bible's talking about the morality of the world, that's not saying much.


And King Solomon had his kingdom taken away by God for his transgression. Besides, since when has what the world declared to be okay ever mattered to Christ? Last I checked, He also has a thing about adultry and lust, so is that okay because the world says so?

A simple thematic elemet of witches.....witches practice witchcraft....right? But on what your saying about macbeth, yes it does have the issue of witches, im not denying that at all....but macbeth is 1st not a long drawn out series about how witches go and find their powers and become more powerful, it does not have this huge underlying message that witchcraft is acceptable, and Macbeth actually calls them evil, or foul..... I think this quote although spoken by the witches is a great example of Harry Potter, because so many people see it as a great book and what they dont see is how it is effecting their lives, they dont see the foul undertow of it.

I didnt say that its how often they show up, but they dont promote the idea of witches, Macbeth even calls them foul (or evil)


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Yes I have read the Chronicles of Narnia, but not the other. Yes they have wizards and magic and they have demons in them, but C.S. Lewis, at least with the white witch and her followers, shows that witchcraft is evil. He dosnt do such a great job with saying that the magician is evil and I can see where it could be opposed as being a bad book. I honestly believe thought that the C.S. Lewis series is a Christian Allegory(sp), and yes it has its problems but what book dosnt. But unlike the harry potter series it doesnt call every one of its books witches and wizards. I admit that the books has their issues and I would for those who have had problems with witchcraft to steer clear of them. But overall they are books that teach Christianity.

But they still appear.



There are alot of good wzards and witches in Narnia. Aslan being one of them. Oh yes, the main diety of Narnia weilds magic.


And The Bible doesn't do much of a job to chatise the Jebusites. Gonna say the Bible is evil too?


Yes, it is.


Emphasis added.

The fact that an allegory has some fictional elements (schools of wizards, alternate worlds, or even mickey mouse) in no way means that the allegory itself is bad.

Fiction. Not real. Be it wizardry, or talking animals or even different moralities, fiction is false.

Here, let me ask you a question (and yes, I am getting somewhere). What do you feel about polygamy?


The fact that many of the main characters are wizards and witches is no different than any character being a wizard.

So it's the 'overall' effect that matters? Isn't that dangerously close to 'The Ends Justify The Means'?

again, chill. it's a fiction. if it shakes your faith, it means you're not well-rooted in the first place.