Joke of the day.

[Joel]

Russia investigates "Harry Potter"

Moscow prosecutors have opened an investigation into whether J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter children's books incite religious hatred. The inquiry was started at the request of a Moscow woman who was upset by the novels, said Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for the Moscow city prosecutor's office. The Interfax news agency reported that the woman who sought the investigation believes the second volume in the series contains occult propaganda. The Rosman publishing house, which has the license for the books in Russia, said it was "baffled" by the investigation.

Joel

[Fat Tone]

Well despite having enjoyed the book thoroughly, I kept falling asleep in the film. I'm sure religious propoganda would have kept me awake

I think it was because these days you can put me in any darkened space and if a baby isn't crying I'll nod off...

[Liquid_Memory]

I wake up this morning and get myself a cup of coffee. My nanday conure decides she wants some and plops head first into the coffee cup, starts taking a bath, and then says Mmmm good. Needless to say the little present she left behind is not my favorite flavor.

Peace Out People.

[High_Jumbllama]

Even if it was/is so what. It's a work of fiction. Or does this lady think Voldemort is coming after her?

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by Liquid_Memory
I wake up this morning and get myself a cup of coffee. My nanday conure decides she wants some and plops head first into the coffee cup, starts taking a bath, and then says Mmmm good. Needless to say the little present she left behind is not my favorite flavor.

Peace Out People.

Where the hell did that come from?

People who look into these books too much, need to pull their heads out of their arses.

Jammrock

[Byock]

Amen. It 's fiction people. A book. If you don't like it, DON'T READ IT.


Duh.

[Sethos]

And this is why Russia is flat broke...

~Sethos

[Gurm]

My uncle is a minister. He and my aunt, when the first movie came out, were sitting at our Thanksgiving table, and said "we heard that J.K. Rowling used real occult incantations in the Harry Potter books, and that she's a practicing satanist!"

We invited them to come see the movie.

Needless to say they were a little red-faced.

Sadly, and no I do NOT want this to turn into a religious flamewar, Christians (as a group) tend to believe whatever claptrap they are pitched, so long as it comes from another Christian.

Take for example Dungeons and Dragons. Christians the world over are convinced that dozens of kids killed themselves in bizarre satanic rituals after playing D&D. A quick check of the facts shows that there was ONE suicide that was even remotely linkable to the game, and this kid had tried to kill himself a few times BEFORE he started playing D&D.

But they KNOW.

It's like urban legends, only worse because it gets preached from a pulpit.

I'm gonna coin a new phrase... "Christian Legends".

- Gurm

[PowerHungry]

My mom was reading a book about that incident about the time I was born, and she knew that I would grow up to be a fantasy enjoying geek.

I personally dislike Harry Potter, but not becasue is it a "cultist" book.

[Gurm]

I dislike Harry Potter on principle. In practice I have found the movies quite enjoyable - certainly moreso than the books.

Why?

Well, ever since I first read "A Wizard of Earthsea" (when I was about... 7 or 8... I got a book of short fantasy excerpts, one of which was from AWOE, and had to read it right away) I've been fascinated by the concept of a school of wizardry.

Sadly, J.K. Rowling can't even keep her own mythos straight, and has sort of ruined the genre forever.

- Gurm