Comments on: Harry Potter…Evil or Entertainment?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:13:53 +0000

Although I don’t think inserting a bible verse into a book makes it “Christian”, I do find the Harry Potter series entertaining. I would recommend that the reader be mature enough that they aren’t tempted to dip into witchcraft and the other questionable things in the books. Be sure and read the books in the mind frame they were written…FICTION!

By: Brianna

Brianna — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:48:34 +0000

I don’t think Harry Potter is evil. Actually, in the last book, there is a Bible verse! 1st Corinthians 15:26. The Last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. That is in the last Harry Potter book! How can HP be “Evil” if it has a Bible ref in it? Just sayin…

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:36:30 +0000

I don’t think it’s demeaning at all. She was simply stating how another book she had read stuck in her spirit. Christians need to be aware of how consuming things that promote evil (I can’t find anywhere in scripture that sorcery is referred to anything BUT that) can effect them spiritually. We shouldn’t foolishly say that something isn’t wrong because it doesn’t “bother.” Maybe the question we should ask is why something the Word defines as evil *doesn’t* bother us.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:15:58 +0000

Comparing the reaction that one gets from reading a book about the VERY REAL slaughter of 11 million innocent people and a book about wizards fighting evil is incredibly demeaning to those people who died and whose family died in the Holocaust. There is no comparison between the fictional sequences in a novel, and watching a documentary showing the deaths of real people.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:57:42 +0000

We do have to be careful in the way we read any material. Christians should always be on guard for their soul. A major difference between the Harry Potter series and the Ouija board is that the books aren’t something to participate in, but something to be read as fiction. If you have a child that can’t understand that Harry Potter is fiction, then I wouldn’t recommend that you allow them to read it.

The Third Reich was all too real, a true horror that still haunts many today. That’s something very different from a work of fiction that doesn’t entice people to do evil.

As always, if you believe it is wrong, then you shouldn’t read it!

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:31:27 +0000

I disagree that these are for ‘entertainment’ any more than The Third Reich, and that one attached itself to me spiritually and I didn’t figure it out for 25 years, and I read it in high school! Torturous visions appeared all the time in my mind and I couldn’t figure out why. After seeing parts of a documentary on WWII with my husband did I figure it out. All books have a ’spiritual’ dimension to them and affect people differently. Most of the kids who read Harry Potter had/have no clue of that world. But that doesn’t matter, the door for evil is opened when one reads stuff like this. Same with the Oiuji board.