Lunatic Christians have mini Crystal Night

[StSanta]

And the poor target is li'l Harry Potter
 http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/31/potter.book.burning.ap/index.html

Of course, I realize that this is the position of a fringe Christian group and hardly representative of the faith in general.

But, you gotta admit, lines like these ARE funny:

"Jack Brock, the Christ Community Church founder and pastor, said the books burned Sunday were "a masterpiece of satanic deception."

"These books teach children how they can get into witchcraft and become a witch, wizard or
warlock," Brock said."

LOL, lotta crazy people out there  

[Wilbus]

DUH!

The poor guy who burned the books probarly don't even know what Satanism is.

[Revvin]

Which is why religion has been the biggest cause of war in the world.

[Leslie]

Now,there's being minted a Harry Potter coin, by a supposedly legitimate United States mint.  The coin has a likeness of Queen Elizabeth on the obverse, with Harry Potter casting a spell on the reverse.  It's about the size of a silver dollar, and you can buy it for around $20.  It's legal tender, claims the ad; where, it did not say.

All I can gather from this, is the author must have been granted sainthood by the queen of England...like Paul McCartney,of the Beatles.  Now, here's the question.  Why hasn't Paul's image been minted as an official coin?

Les

[thrila]

harry potter has been banned from a local school after several parents claimed it was "anti christian"  


There are some very insecure christians out there.

Bama please don't tell me you're a christian nut or else i'll have to point and laugh at you.  

As far as i know the Author of Harry Potter has not been appointed a sainthood and i know that Sir Paul McCartney hasn't.   Didn't even though that the Queen could make people saints.


Remember, Harry Potter is on the coin and not the Author.  Just a thing for kids and Harry Potter fanatics i expect.

Or maybe it is a conspiracy against christianity after all......    

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[Dinger]

Many tiny countries make a bunch of money off of postage stamps.  Others, like Liberia, also issue coins.

I too maintain that Harry Potter books should be burned because of their corrupting influence on children.  If they read and believe that stuff, they won't end up as satan-worshipping witches and wizards.  Rather they'll find themselves being sodomized in some ropey British public school.

[Curval]

We had a principal here ban the book from the school curriculum...we have more than our fair share of fundamentalist Christians here!!!

These people should read "The Malleus Malificarum"...the Catholic/Christian treatise on the prosecution and persecution of witchcraft and then take a long hard look at their own morality, because this is where they will find the roots of it.

[Wotan]

Santa them folks aren't necessarily "fringe" there's plenty o' Chistrians round here who are rampaging against it as well.

In between mumblin in "tongues" and begging fer money I dunno where they find the time.

Some of umm make them West Virginia Snake
Handlers seem main stream......

must be all that time they spend on their knees.....

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[Tac]

"Across the street, protesters chanting "Stop burning books" stretched in a line a quarter of a mile long.

It may be useless but we want (the church) to know the community is not behind them," said Joann Booth, who protested with her four grandchildren. One protester dressed up as Adolf Hitler."

That protester deserves a medal. Brilliant quick thinking and sent them a REAL message to those religios maggots.

[SirLoin]

Talk about banning books..Chapters has just banned the sales of Mien Kampf.I guess they feel you're better off not knowing how the genocidal mind thinks.You know what they say about people who forget the past..  

[J_A_B]

"Others, like Liberia, also issue coins."

Which is the case with the "United States Mint"--it is from Liberia.  I know this from seeing their ads for WTC coins constantly on late-night TV.

J_A_B

[BenDover]

i'm not a christian, but i hate harry potter.

if you hate harry potter, click here

[funkedup]

Yes I see the comparison to the real Crystal Night.

 

Not.

All anti-Christian fervor aside, don't you guys agree that Harry Potter sucks?  I think this was a victory in the name of good taste, up there with the "Disco Demolition Night" riot at Comiskey Park in 1979.
 http://whitesoxinteractive.com/History&Glory/DiscoDemolition.htm

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[eskimo2]

As an elementary school teacher I am typically repulsed by kiddy trends, Poki-mon and such.
Didn't care much for Harry Potter either, until I decided to actually READ THE BOOK FOR MYSELF.  
What do I think of Harry Potter now?

It's probably the best children's book ever written!
(And I loved it!, as well as books 2 and 3.)

Being a teacher, I have read a lot of children's books, heck, I own about 2000 of them.
It would take me several hours to thoroughly explain why Harry Potter is the perfect children's book, but basically, it's well written, easy to read, exciting, complicated, unpredictable, provides complete escapism, and has children outwitting adults (#1 most critical element for appealing to kids).  It also teaches morals more-so than it teaches witch craft.

I am sure that some kids will get too interested in actual witch craft for their own good after reading H.P.
But, for every kid who goes seriously awry, 10,000 other kids have learned to love reading without ill effects.
And that, is priceless.
I've worked my butt-off each year to get just a few kids turned-on to reading.
This book, this author, has turned on millions of kids to reading, like magic!

<S> J. K. Rowling!

eskimo

[funkedup]

Wait I just found out they burned AC/DC records too.  They must be stopped!  Nazis!!!

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