The paper is all about my personal review of the famous "Harry Potter" and its oppositions.
The Harry Potter series has become incredibly famous and popular. Some people hail it as a great thing since it has gotten many of kids actually interested in reading again. Others have decided it a wicked and evil thing and should at all cost be kept from kids. The people that condemn Harry Potter are usually either Christian or catholic. They claim that Harry Potter is an evil and vile thing because it contains witchcraft. They site the old testaments view of witchcraft in supporting their beliefs. They also claim that it's a tool of Satan to lure children at an early age into witchcraft and draw them away from the Lord. Personally, I believe all these views are biased, misguided, full of fallacy, and plain hypocritical
There are plenty of other books out there that contain witchcraft and magic in them, yet religious leaders don't attack them. Plenty of our fairy tales contain mentioning of magic, but those are a perfectly acceptable thing to read to our children. Most of the fairy tales that contain magic are aimed at a much younger demographic than those of the Harry Potter series. If we take the same reasoning that we take with Harry Potter, than we should all get together and have a good old fashion book burning and try to undue the damage that has already been done.
When it comes to the issue of Harry Potter and Satan using them to draw young kids into witchcraft and away from the Lord, it makes me want to hurt myself since the whole idea is riddled with fallacies. The “witchcraft” in Harry Potter is completely different from that of real witchcraft or Wicca. Many followers of Wicca itself denounced Harry Potter since it gives people a false portrayal of what it really it is. Anyone who compares the witchcraft in Harry Potter to Wicca. is either functionally retarded, or knows nothing about the book series at all except that is contains magic and is popular.
That brings me to my next point, Harry Potter's popularity. I think that's one of its main reason it's been attacked by religion and religious leaders. Religion has always condemned what's popular. Look at rock and role, people thought it was the end of our youth. Same goes for comic books, radio, and TV. The church has always feared what's new. Its always had an opinion on what popular and new, even it doesn't concern them in the least bit.
Many people will defend Harry Potter with the morals and good teachings it possesses If you've even. Some people however, twist this defense into an offense. The people who do this have it ingrained into their very soul that Harry Potter will give birth to the end of the world and inspire the some young kid to eventually become the anti-Christ. They say Satan puts this small grain of truth and morality in it in order to deceive us even further. Honestly, if these people weren't condemning Harry Potter, they would be condemning something else, these people are just bigots.
There are plenty of other books out there that contain witchcraft and magic in them, yet religious leaders don't attack them. Plenty of our fairy tales contain mentioning of magic, but those are a perfectly acceptable thing to read to our children. Most of the fairy tales that contain magic are aimed at a much younger demographic than those of the Harry Potter series. If we take the same reasoning that we take with Harry Potter, than we should all get together and have a good old fashion book burning and try to undue the damage that has already been done.
What really makes me sick about the people who have nothing better to do than to condemn Harry Potter, is that they are hypocritical. They condemn Harry Potter because it contains Harry Potter and turns the morals and principals it teaches into seeds of the devil's deceit. Yet they praise Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia because of their Christian symbolism. If you applied the same reasoning to these series the one they do to Harry Potter, then we ought to build a time machine, go back and time, and stone Tolkien and Lewis for such blasphemy. Because following this logic, they are even worse. They dare to mix Christianity with witchcraft and sorcery! Hypocrites I say!
Most of the arguments people present as to why Harry Potter is wrong and evil are either stupid, full of bias, or full hypocrisy. So we should either start concerning ourselves with something more important than warding of the so called evils of Harry Potter, or get to work on a time machine.
