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[ebonlock]

Submitted for your consideration without comment, via Orcinus.

Baptist youth ministries leader Jennifer Zebel on the Harry Potter series:

“I cannot believe that any secular book, character or movie advocating witchcraft of any kind could be this wildly successful without Satan having an agenda for it. The bottom line is that we know the right choice is to steer clear of these books and movies, but we don’t want to make the sacrifice. Satan is a wonderful writer and movie producer.”

And:
In Cedarville, Arkansas, the school board restricted access to the Harry Potter books unless a student could produce a signed permission slip from their parents. The board passed the rule because fundamentalist parents complained after “hearing a series of anti-Potter sermons in 2001 by Mark Hodges, pastor of the Uniontown Assembly of God Church and a member of the Cedarville School Board.”

Comments

[pikabot]

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I just love the idea of Satan himself having a plan for the HP books. 'Cause he's got abso-freakin-lutely nothing better to do with all that time. Seriously...wtf?

[tyee.livejournal.com]

Your title almost made me snort peppermint mocha out of my nose. Well put!

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I have been just dying to use it. The other one I need a good excuse to use is "Accio Impeachment!" It'll happen, I have faith.

[tyee.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is also perfect! May you have a chance to use it, and soon!

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I must give credit to cyranocyrano on that one as he totally came up with it. He'd been discussing his almost dementor-induced terror at how incompetent the Dems were being about the filibustering going on lately and then quipped that. Although, upon reflection, perhaps it should be "Expecto Impeachment!"

[tyee.livejournal.com]

Oooo, and then it would go capering off to vanquish the soul-sucking darkness lurking in the halls of Congress and the White House? That would be awesome!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

It definitely should be 'Expecto Impeachment'. (:

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

Probably wouldn't do any good for a Muggle like me to go around babbling "Expecto Impeachment!"

although that won't stop me one bit

[psyfic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because clearly a story where an orphaned boy is saved due to his mother's love for him... and a grown man's undying love for a woman who could never be his is what kept his heart pure despite being surrounded by genuine evil are two horrible messages full of wicked sinfulness.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Clearly the devil's playground, no question.

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

I think I remember reading somewhere that JK has gotten exactly one lettter ever in the UK about the whole religious angle - and it was from a vicar saying that since this was a pagan society, maybe "Christmas tree" was an inappropriate term.

One.

Seriously, this is what will make me flee the country and never return - the ascendancy of the holy rollers. Go back and read "The Mind of the South" by WJ Cash (1941) and then you will see why he had it exactly right. And also why he blew his brains out in a hotel room in Mexico.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Having been raised in great part by Southern Baptists, believe me I feel your pain.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Someone give those kids copies of "Catcher In The Rye."