Harry Potter is the devil (not really), page 2

Originally posted by Rossa
reply to post by boymonkey74

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Hello, really liked your post. Very appropriate for whats going on in my home right now. I was sent to one of those "Jesus camps" when I was a kid, and listened to the drivel until I was 13, and had enough.
In my 40's now, when my 10 year old asked to go with some of her friends to Bible school camp (thats what they are called around here), I said yes. That afternoon I picked her up, she was in tears because the preacher had told her she was a bad child,and would be sentenced to eternity in HELL! What a load of crap to do to a 10 year old innocent child.
I read the preacher the riot act, and she never went back, bad thing is, it was the same church camp I went to, would have thought it might have improved some since Id been there- obviously not.

Tonight, my now 15 almost 16 year old is going to church with a friend of hers. We will see what the result is.(different church this time) supposedly a little easier going. If so, thats fine, if not, she will probobly choose not to go back. But it is her choice.

I intentionally raised my child in a non-religious environment, why? because she needs to choose her religion if any, not someone else. I was forced at a young age, now I follow a different calling. My daughter will choose her own way.

People dont seem to understand that terrifying a small child into believing something is more evil than nearly anything you can do. It scars them for life. Religious zealots need to have thier own hell visited upon them on a daily basis.
There is nothing wrong with worshiping God. But there is a right and wrong way to teach it. and unfortunately there are more people who teach it the wrong way than there are who teach it the right way.
Its all very sad that something that could be the highlight of someones life, quickly becomes a terror in the dark for the rest of thier life.

edit on 14-3-2012 by Rossa because: for spelling

excellent post..from the horses mouth to speak (Not calling you a horse lol)

reply to post by SashaHighkick

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If the big J came back he would be disgusted what has been done in his name.

reply to post by boymonkey74

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boymonkey, this is an offtopic reply, but your username and avatar make me laugh everytime i see it. Lol.

reply to post by PulsusMeusGallo

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A nerd is the bully? That's a new one on me.

Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by PulsusMeusGallo

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A nerd is the bully? That's a new one on me.

Hermione was a lot of things but a bully wasn't one of them!

reply to post by Night Star

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Maybe when she shot the birds at ron, but I woulda done worse :p

Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by Night Star

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Maybe when she shot the birds at ron, but I woulda done worse :p

No, no, it was when she punched that blonde bully. I forget his name, (Malfoy?) but he deserved it.

reply to post by Night Star

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They picked that actor well. I wanted to punch him in the face, even more than I wanted to punch the book one in the face

reply to post by boymonkey74

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Yep.

Reminds me of my youth only when I was little it was primarily Pokemon that was being rallied against, I can remember having my trading cards confiscated because there were psychic ghost pokemon and that was part of the occult. I was also strictly warned never to play Dungeons and Dragons or Magic the Gathering as those were considered like gateway drugs to Satanism.

It was also strange that in my household Lord of the Rings and Narnia were both perfectly acceptable but Harry Potter, when it eventually gained popularity, was definitely not.

This kind of stuff makes me mad, both as someone who experienced this kind of brainwashing as a kid, and as a person with empathy and an understanding of reality versus fiction.

reply to post by TKDRL

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Had to edit, replied to wrong subject.

If I could find the video I'd show you, but alas.. I forgot it. Someone here will probably know. It's an interesting theory.

Originally posted by Night Star

Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by PulsusMeusGallo

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A nerd is the bully? That's a new one on me.

Hermione was a lot of things but a bully wasn't one of them!

This was once an extremely insecure child who learned to over-compensate by acting pushy. And up to fairly recently this particular form of coping had generally worked — within reason. Upon the whole, she had succeeded in her short-term objectives more often than not.

Miss Granger does not usually react well in situations of sustained external pressure. She already generates more than enough internal pressure of her own. When forced into such situations, her performance in whatever the immediate subject at hand is remains up to her usual high standards, but her personal behavior tends to become hair-trigger, over-emphatic, quarrelsome and decidedly shrill.

And even at the best of times, she tends to be prickly, high-strung, and impatient - a bully. There is a lot of fine human potential there, but this is simply not a quiet child. Nor a particularly sweet one. This kid is not one of the tribe of Log. She is unmistakably a Stork.

Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by Night Star

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They picked that actor well. I wanted to punch him in the face, even more than I wanted to punch the book one in the face

Better tell Sharon Stone, she's due to co-star with him (Tom Felton) in a film in 2012.

Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by PulsusMeusGallo

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A nerd is the bully? That's a new one on me.

Why not a nerd? She came onto the field determined to excel in order to be SEEN to excel. And by this time she knows damn well that in the wizarding world knowledge is quite literally power.

And she did seem to be learning. Gradually. Hermione had made considerable strides in breaking herself of at least some of her least likable behaviors including bullying (academically, scholastically and/or psychologically).

By the end of Year 1 she had learned that boasting gained her no brownie points with her peers.

By the end of Year 2 she had evidently decided that drawing attention to herself on general principles was not a great idea either.

It took all year of Book 3 to get her to stop showing off in class, but she appears to have finally managed that lesson as well — for the most part, although she still goes into that mode whenever she is confronted by a new teacher.

In HBP (#6) Snape finally went so far as to openly slap her down for simply parrotting the information from the textbook. He’d probably wanted to do that for years. But Potions is a study which does tend to support rote learning and “one true answer”. At least the way he taught it.

Now if she could just wrap her mind around the concept that not all the answers can be found in books, or that she could be wrong about anything she would be making real progress.

Which, by Deathly Hallows, she finally had.

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