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Pope Against Potter
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071301.html
I am going back to being a Agnostic
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Ungodly
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At least John Paul II was Polska. I wonder what this guy thinks of Tolkein.
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ALL TOOLS OF THE DEVIL!!!!!!!!!
I just don't get people anymore.
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moron
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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.
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Who is the Pope anyway? Really? Who cares what he says except for the old and neurotic.
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Killthehumans
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both tolien and the narnia dude were devout catholics. and most modern day fantasy is based upon the works of those two dudes
just take a look at the papers
your leaders
they\'re killers
they\'re liars
what they do in your
name to make the bodies pile higher
the murders, the terror
they\'ve done it forever
as we sit band and smile
at the script they sell us
but now the victims, they\'re rising
their numbers\'s multiplying
they want their revenge for the years
that they\'ve been dying
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Thats Life
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fuck harry potter anyways.
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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.
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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.
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Discipline
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Chronicles of Narnia was an amazing set of books that I read several times as a youngster.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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Jason the Magnificent
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| 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.
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SAAAAARS
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wwwwwoooooowwww
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JawnDiablo
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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
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Discipline
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It's just a fucking book for fuck's sake. Fuck the church, fuck the pope.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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