RE: Burn the Witch!

Cthulu dangerous? While they are creepy stories that keep you up at night, they have nothing to do with witchcraft. Chthulu stories are just fantasy caused by too much ice cream (Lovecraft abstained from alcohol and drugs but really loved ice cream AFAIK).

My 'dangerous introduction' comment was actually a quote from many different ministers who believe that about Harry Potter; and all fantasy for that matter. Make no mistake, I may be a Christian--but my belief is that those kinds of comments are laughable. Exodus 22:18 is often used to justify this belief but, the Hebrew word used there is m'khashepah, which actually references those (usually women, but not always) who uses spoken spells to cause death or loss of property to another. Or, for another phrase 'Evil Sorcery'.

The other place often 'misinterpreted' happens to be Deuteronomy 18:10-11. Looking at the original Hebrew, these verses actually only codemn those who practice the arts of communing with the dead (deliberately, not accidentally), predicting the future, snake charming, channelling, casting lots/reading tea leaves/tarot, etc to predcit the future,knot magic, or (again) evil sorcery. Not anyone who is an herbalist (hmmm we use artifical herbs every day to cure/treat disease) or who heals through prayers. Not Harry Potter, Gandalf, Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, etc. Why? because these are FICTIONAL characters. Blanket statements that fantasy fiction is 'dangerous' by people like John Hagee, James Dobson, and their ilk is just scare tactics.

Harry Potter is no more evil than Mark Twain or 'The Catcher in the Rye'. In this, those who preach that and I will have to agree to disagree--fiction does not equal reality; and if your children are well grounded in reality, then the fiction will have no impact.

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