Harry Potter DECEPTION!!

[antipharisee]

Twelve reasons not to see Harry Potter Movies:

1. God shows us that witchcraft, sorcery, spells, divination and magic are evil.

2. The movie's foundation in fantasy, not reality, doesn't diminish its power to change beliefs and values.

3. Each occult image and suggestion prompts the audience to feel more at home in this setting.

4. God tells us to "abhor what is evil" and "cling to what is good."

5. Immersed in Hogwarts' beliefs and values, children learn to ignore or reinterpret God's truth.

6. This inner change is usually unconscious, for the occult lessons and impressions tend to bypass rational scrutiny.
More:
http://sites.google.com/site/harrypotterdeception

[marpat]

Twelve reasons not to see Harry Potter Movies:

1. God shows us that witchcraft, sorcery, spells, divination and magic are evil.

2. The movie's foundation in fantasy, not reality, doesn't diminish its power to change beliefs and values.

3. Each occult image and suggestion prompts the audience to feel more at home in this setting.

4. God tells us to "abhor what is evil" and "cling to what is good."

5. Immersed in Hogwarts' beliefs and values, children learn to ignore or reinterpret God's truth.

6. This inner change is usually unconscious, for the occult lessons and impressions tend to bypass rational scrutiny.
More:
http://sites.google.com/site/harrypotterdeception

You need to get out more, all that evangalistic TV is bad for you

Just because you chose one religion it does not mean that everything that does not agree with it is somehow evil or wrong. Christian reject reincarnation yet the jews accept it, who is right?

[zsymon]

Twelve reasons not to see Harry Potter Movies:

1. God shows us that witchcraft, sorcery, spells, divination and magic are evil.

2. The movie's foundation in fantasy, not reality, doesn't diminish its power to change beliefs and values.

3. Each occult image and suggestion prompts the audience to feel more at home in this setting.

4. God tells us to "abhor what is evil" and "cling to what is good."

5. Immersed in Hogwarts' beliefs and values, children learn to ignore or reinterpret God's truth.

6. This inner change is usually unconscious, for the occult lessons and impressions tend to bypass rational scrutiny.
More:
http://sites.google.com/site/harrypotterdeception

Didn't Moses use magic to impress the Egyptians, turn a stick into snakes, kill all firstborns and split a sea?
Didn't Jesus use magic to heal the sick, walk over water, turn water into wine and multiply bread and fish?

But I guess when God's chosen people use magic, it's called a miracle instead..

[ninny]

as far as i know the bread thing was misunderstood lol.

[truthseeker1980]

as far as i know the bread thing was misunderstood lol.

yeh he dished out Ketamin and LSD and their vision turned to quadruple and they hallucinated it.

All perfectly plausible, if the Egyptian's used cocaine.

[lizzyking]

How can a story that clearly presents and markets itself as FICTION be a deception? Does it say "based on a true story" anywhere in the credits? No.


When children's parents tell them the tooth fairy left a dime under the pillow for a tooth that fell out, what do you call that?

[energi]

1. God shows us that witchcraft, sorcery, spells, divination and magic are evil.

Where? What are his arguments? When was this told [and to what people?]


2. The movie's foundation in fantasy, not reality, doesn't diminish its power to change beliefs and values.

How do you know this does not apply to your concept of a god (asssuming that you're talking about the christian deity)?

3. Each occult image and suggestion prompts the audience to feel more at home in this setting.

Agree (as in the audience either being de-sensitized to the imagery with the possibility of being tricked into negative schools of thought... or swallowing it as the latest "cool" (this applies mostly to kids, which aren't allowed to see the films due to age restriction)

4. God tells us to "abhor what is evil" and "cling to what is good."

How does this relate to the fictional books of Harry Potter, and them being acted out on screen and filmed for entertainment?

5. Immersed in Hogwarts' beliefs and values, children learn to ignore or reinterpret God's truth.

And God's truth is what? How does the values/belief system of Hogwarts oppose it?


6. This inner change is usually unconscious, for the occult lessons and impressions tend to bypass rational scrutiny.

Most visual stimuli promotes change in the unconscious; movies and video games do this all the time probably since I've had dreams about TES IV: Oblivion :D:D



More:
http://sites.google.com/site/harrypotterdeception[/QUOTE]

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[lizzyking]

1. God shows us...



4. God tells us...



6. This inner change is usually unconscious, for the occult lessons and impressions tend to bypass rational scrutiny.



http://i51.tinypic.com/4rfiia.jpg

[energi]

For the sake of discussion I quote the rest of the list from the link in the first post.


7. The main product marketed through this movie is a new belief system.

8. The implied source of power behind Harry's magical feats tend to distort a child's understanding of God.

9. Blind to the true nature of God, children will blend (synthesize) Biblical truth with pagan beliefs and magical practices.

10. God tells us to "train up a child in the way He should go."

11. While some argue that Harry and his friends model friendship and integrity, they actually model how to lie and steal and get away with it.

12. God has a better way. More HERE


My response:

7. No/Well, DUUUUUH/So? Why should you care? :p:D


8. What source?

9. I think that's called growing up - people's beliefs tend to get more rigid and hard-wired over time. And God, if talking about the dude from the bible, was a genocidal cunt invading other countries. LOL


10. What does this even mean (elaborate on this)?


11. Provide examples, pls.


(The 12th one is a link to a page with bible quotes and conjecture. I would prefer if you replied using your own words rather than pure copy/paste from that link)

[lizzyking]

Objectively, it is just a story that tells us something about the writer's imagination and inner world. Of course there are cultural aspects, experiences, and other stories too that were input, the writer reprocessed it and the output is the story.

The subjectively fun part is losing one's self to such stories for a time, that is why they are popular perhaps. It is a lot more fun than staring at the walls.

[zsymon]

http://i51.tinypic.com/4rfiia.jpg

Haha, that cracked me up so bad.. lol!

Oh man my stomach hurts, I really needed a good laugh.

[luzifer]

Twelve reasons not to see Harry Potter Movies:
1. God shows us that witchcraft, sorcery, spells, divination and magic are evil.
2. The movie's foundation in fantasy, not reality, doesn't diminish its power to change beliefs and values.
3. Each occult image and suggestion prompts the audience to feel more at home in this setting.
4. God tells us to "abhor what is evil" and "cling to what is good."
5. Immersed in Hogwarts' beliefs and values, children learn to ignore or reinterpret God's truth.
6. This inner change is usually unconscious, for the occult lessons and impressions tend to bypass rational scrutiny.

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/7333/1279558935007.jpg

[trepidation]

5. Immersed in Hogwarts' beliefs and values, children learn to ignore or reinterpret God's truth.
Maybe they should.