Why Harry Potter Goes Awry - Zenit
Reasonable Christian parents would not permit their children to read a series of enthralling books depicting likable young people involved in drug-dealing, or premarital sex, or torture. We would not give our children fiction in which a group of “good fornicators” struggled against a set of “bad fornicators.” Why, then, have we accepted a set of books which glamorize and normalize occult activity, even though it is every bit as deadly to the soul as sexual sin, if not more so?
For more Catholic views on “Harry”:
Catholic Educator’s Resource: Here are links to several articles.
Rome’s chief excorcist warns parents against Harry Potter
My personal view is:
Suppose there is a “NEW” discovery for space travel.
Everyone can now go to the Moon cheap. But, there is a controversy. A famed Rocket Scientist, an expert in his field says that the craft that carries everyone on this journey isn’t safe.
However, everyone you know is signing up to go. You want to go. You are like eveyone else, it is “new” and “everyone is doing it”.
But, you don’t want to take a chance with the safety of your family or your own. Your friends try to convince you that it safe by quoting experts of their own. There is even a local ‘car mechanic’ who checked the craft over and he says that it is fine. Eveyone knows him as a man of integrity, why would he say the craft isn’t safe if it was not?
I am going with the “expert” (in this case Fr. Gabriel Amorth - the leading Exorcist in Rome - an expert in the field in question), he says “that Satan is behind the works”.
My question to anyone who would take this kind of chance with their family’s Salvation is; “With so much good, safe, Christian reading available today, why would you read something that might take you & your family away from God?”
“Why?”
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