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7.13.2005

Harry Potter Gets Bene-Dicked

With only three days until the release of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, letters have arisen that denounce the Harry Potter series and are signed by former Cardinal-turned-Pope Ratzinger.

In a letter dated March 7, 2003 Cardinal Ratzinger thanked Kuby for her "instructive" book Harry Potter - gut oder bose (Harry Potter- good or evil?), in which Kuby says the Potter books corrupt the hearts of the young, preventing them from developing a properly ordered sense of good and evil, thus harming their relationship with God while that relationship is still in its infancy.

"It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly," wrote Cardinal Ratzinger.

The Vatican doesn't want young people reading about magic healing potions, broomstick travel, jellybeans of every flavor and whomping willows. No, they want you to read about transmutation of water into wine, miraculous healings and necromancy.

Personally, I feel any books (with the exception of erotica) that get kids reading are good books, no matter the subject matter. When I was growing up, I used to read The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis' drawn out allegory of Christ. No one was up in arms about these. Perhaps if someone spent some time and found some sort of deep meaning in the Harry Potter books there wouldn't be a modern witch hunt happening.

LifeSite.net :: Pope Opposes Harry Potter Novels

(joe :: Harry Potter Gets Bene-Dicked)

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