[In response to the announcement of a release party in Chicago for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"]
WHAT AN ABOMINATION!
Why on EARTH would you be PROUD of leading children away from the unerring and unchanging word of GOD?! YOU SHOULD BE IN PRISON!
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Hey, lumpyfanny; you'd rather kids crack a bible and learn about genocide, mass rapes, infantcide, senseless animal slaughters, blood drinking, flesh eating, zombies and people being banned from worshipping god because of their physical defects?
At least Harry Potter shows that a nerdy kid with talent can make something out of his life. What does the bible teach; No matter how hard you try, you will NEVER live up to the ridiculessly high and unnatural laws that are against the very nature of human biology?
Anybody who drives kids away from the babble should get a fucking medal in my (secular) book.
And you in an asylum. One, if the word of GOd is unchanging, why are there cars, antibiotics or this computer?. Why is Harry Potter leading children away from God?. Why should they be in prison in a country where there is separation of church and state, and where nobody forces you to go to a party?.
Does grumpygranny have any actual examples of children who turned away from their religion because they read Harry Potter books, or is she, like most fundies, just pulling stuff out of her ass?
Poe or Troll, I think. Either way, I've met people like this IRL. Including my father who LOVED the books, then hated them when he "found" Jesus.
@Robbie
Actually, this one's legit.
Why do I know this?
Because it's my grandmother ... shudder ...
You poor thing.
It is an abomination unto Nuggan. Your Bible comes with a convenient three-ring-binder section for updates on new abominations.
At least grumpygranny is being honest with herself about her personality and mental state. Still needs a nice long fashionable blazer with extra-long sleeves that have those nice buckles on the ends, and perhaps luxury accomodations in the nice, clean hotel with mattresses for wallpaper.
There, there. Everything will be all right....
To Lupine:
I know, right? She found the website on my daughter's computer and damn near flipped her wig. Just because she's my grandmother, though, doesn't mean I have any familial affection for her - I don't even like her.
Gah. I feel for you, Robbie. I unfortunately have a similar grandmother. Except she goes the other ultra-Christian way and is just all sickly sweet and revolting about everything. She'd just be on that forum telling everyone she was praying for them, and it's not too late to ask for forgiveness and embrace the love of the Lord, and don't they know Jesus loves all the little children, even the dreadfully straying ones who read Harry Potter?
*vomits violently*
Sounds like your preacher-man is railing against the competition in the Bullshit Magic Fairytale business. Don't worry granny, nobody is going to get turned into a pillar of salt or a handful of rice pudding. You might want to check the hardness of your arteries though, before you give yourself a stroke and blame it on de debbul.
The "not allowed to be around diabetic people" kind, Skywolf?
The thing that got my attention was her choice of (supposed) attributes of the Babble to underline. I got the mental image of a little old woman terrified by and/or furious at everything that came out after 1975... Was it close, Robbie?
Maybe it's a troll. I mean, they can't claim to be persecuted if they, on purpose, enter a place where they know that their comments are not wellcome and mingle in their affairs for no good reason. Fundies, the usual ones, don't go that far. They say what they say in forums that are fundy or likely to be fundy or, occasionally, in middle-of-the-road ones, with a more or less neutral tone. They are never yoked to unbelievers.
Robbie , I feel for you, I really do.
I can only imagine what you'll have to endure when every bookstore, department store and the occasional grocery store (a few out here sell popular books) are advertising the premier of the new book.
Well, then, I guess you'll just have to cart off 90% of the population to the jailhouse then, maybe all of them. Everyone has read a book that has contained some element of fantasy, whether it's a fairy tale, myth, science fiction, etc. What kind of books do you consider acceptable other than the Bible? The phonebook?
It's not just children who are engaged in the Potterverse. The Deathly Hallows was a pretty dark and scary book/film, so nothing for the younger children.
Unerring and unchanging? So, Catholicism or Orthodox Christianity for you, then, and only the Greek/Hebrew/Latin near-originals?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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