Pope Against Potter

bystanderfanzine.com - 7-13-2005 at 09:36 AM

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071301.html

I am going back to being a Agnostic

Ungodly - 7-13-2005 at 10:04 AM

At least John Paul II was Polska. I wonder what this guy thinks of Tolkein.

bystanderfanzine.com - 7-13-2005 at 10:13 AM

ALL TOOLS OF THE DEVIL!!!!!!!!!

I just don't get people anymore.

moron - 7-13-2005 at 10:21 AM

In a letter dated March 7, 2003 Cardinal Ratzinger thanked Kuby for her "instructive" book Harry Potter - gut oder b?se (Harry Potter- good or evil?), in which Kuby says the Potter books corrupt the hearts of the young, preventing them from developing a properly ordered sense of good and evil, thus harming their relationship with God while that relationship is still in its infancy.

Wow. Well, sometimes good an evil isnt so clearly defined. Anyway... it's a fucking children's book.

JawnDiablo - 7-13-2005 at 03:00 PM

Who is the Pope anyway? Really? Who cares what he says except for the old and neurotic.

Killthehumans - 7-13-2005 at 03:02 PM

both tolien and the narnia dude were devout catholics. and most modern day fantasy is based upon the works of those two dudes

Thats Life - 7-13-2005 at 03:09 PM

fuck harry potter anyways.

Ungodly - 7-13-2005 at 03:21 PM

And rightly so. I haven't read Narnia but I love CS Lewis's essays.

Tolkein, though, also had a ton of different pagan influences, which are, of course, automatically evil to the Catholic Church.

I am very interested in how good and evil are treated in JRRT (and Star Wars, in which I find the treatment similar- I've seen Manichaeism called upon to discuss SW, and it could apply to JRRT just as well ). It's so cut and dried and evil characters tend to be wholly flat. There is also the xian phenomoenon that evil comes to bear on the world through a fall, and in JRRT the race of men are particulary prone to this.

One of these days I shall write about this. It needs to happen because scholars don't take JRRT seriously these days but he was the real deal.

hollymaconmovies - 7-13-2005 at 04:55 PM

War, poverty, terror, genocide, ethnic cleansing and Harry Potter. Sounds about right.

And I'm getting ready to reread the Chronicles of Narnia. I'm psyched about the movie coming out this fall.

Discipline - 7-13-2005 at 05:04 PM

Chronicles of Narnia was an amazing set of books that I read several times as a youngster.

Jason the Magnificent - 7-13-2005 at 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by moron
In a letter dated March 7, 2003 Cardinal Ratzinger thanked Kuby for her "instructive" book Harry Potter - gut oder b?se (Harry Potter- good or evil?), in which Kuby says the Potter books corrupt the hearts of the young, preventing them from developing a properly ordered sense of good and evil, thus harming their relationship with God while that relationship is still in its infancy.

Wow. Well, sometimes good an evil isnt so clearly defined.

exactly. like the catholic church. when they get their shit in gear he can pass judgement on somthing else.

SAAAAARS - 7-13-2005 at 07:05 PM

wwwwwoooooowwww

JawnDiablo - 7-13-2005 at 10:01 PM

pedophile priests can harm their relationship with God and fuck up their views of good and evil a bit more than a silly book / movie...but they rather worry about ol harry
i took my kid to see the last harry flick on the IMAX and i have to say it was pretty good. the special effects were cool.
i would bet 2 packs of scrapple that the catholic church in america will be bankrupt/ gone under in my lifetime

Discipline - 7-13-2005 at 11:13 PM

It's just a fucking book for fuck's sake. Fuck the church, fuck the pope.