Harry Potter or Justice Sunday III? what message do they send to kids??

[bobbieinok]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/1/9/142542/8735

Justice Sunday III v. Harry Potter
By Chip Berlet Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 02:25:42 PM EST

On Sunday, January 8, 2006, I had a choice between Justice Sunday III and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Perhaps this was a choice faced by other parents seeking to find something educational for their children to experience. My son is grown up now, but I thought about the lessons to be learned from both events.

Let me tell you what I learned when my wife and I attended the Harry Potter film.


• Certain actions are evil, but evil is not based on heredity or nationality.
• Sometimes we are called on to do things that we do not want to do (and even makes us unpopular), but that we should shoulder these responsibilities with good grace.
• Real heroes sometimes set aside their personal quest to help others in danger.
• We should welcome people from different cultures and nations into our midst.
• Friendship includes taking risks to support our friends and standing up for them in a crisis.

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Some on the Christian Right have denounced the Harry Potter series--books and films--as anti-Christian and perhaps even Satanic due to the flagrant use of magic.

From news reports and a transcript of the Justice Sunday III event posted by the sponsoring Family Research Council, we can see the alternative lessons presented by some of the Christian Right.

• The moral struggle is not between ideas that support goodness and ideas that spawn evil, but between "secular supremacists" and Godly Christians.
• God is against gay men and lesbians signifying their commitment of love through marriage.
• God is against abortion.
• God wants us to put judge Samuel Alito on the Supreme court.

We also learn that liberals and non-Christians threaten America and that we should pray that "not secularism or unbelief or a hostile supreme court prevail against" God's word.

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As a parent, ask yourself to which event would you take your child for moral guidance?

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(this site often has interesting articles on the religious war going on in the US)

[savemefromdumbya]

1. they didn't worry too much when we were kids

many moons ago

[stellanoir]

2. IMHO

kids don't give a flying flop about fundamentalists and find magic far more intrigueing,.