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Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/17/2005 7:32:10 PM   
knees2you


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Status: offline 		The Biggest selling book
of all time is "Harry potter" No wait not yet
it isn't. It is still the Bible.

They both have great charactures,
They both have endings which untill the
one is writen, and the other is shown,
we will not know the outcome of either.

It looks as though the Bible as far as books being
sold, is in for a change, a new front runner.

I hope not.

They have talked about how it leads kids into
witchcraft, etc.
But I say raise Your kids right, and tell them
right from wrong, and how it is just Fantasy~

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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/17/2005 10:13:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Y'know, I hardly ever agree with you, but on this one, I think you're right on.

If your children have trouble telling that a book is fantasy, they have bigger problems than being led into witchcraft.

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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/17/2005 10:39:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't care for it myself, but i think it's great that it's getting young kids to read 300 page books.

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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 1:04:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Some are more like 700 pages, proudsub. I've never understood people that hate reading, but it's good that people are finding SOMETHING they can stick their noses into and then theorize as to what's gonna happen next. I'm proud, though sad, to say that my guess as to the book 6 death was correct. And my sister was right in her guess about the half-blood prince, damn her.

(I haven't read the book yet, but I couldn't resist reading a spoiler-filled review in a friend's LJ)

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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 10:33:45 AM   
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I don't care for it myself, but i think it's great that it's getting young kids to read 300 page books.


In the era of the Internet and video games anything that encourages a kid to pick up a real, live book and read it and use their imagination is a good thing.

As for the stories leading them into witchcraft, well... just because it is referenced in the book doesn't make the book bad. It also doesn't mean that it influences them to turn to witchcraft.

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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 11:25:06 AM   
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Anyway my dom gets mad at me he always has the remote. He always is watching some form of sports. I get bored, do other things. Well he gets mad and tells me to take the remote. So yesterday while waiting for company to show up after he went outside to retrieve something I turned on the television. There was some movie on...about the Evolution trial in the 20's. Anyone see it?

Of course, our beliefs differ greatly. This was no movie he would ever watch on his own...but because he has told me to take control now and then. He sat down and watched it with me.

All the while as the trial was going on...looking at me telling me I make too much sense. He could have scripted it by my words....hehe.

Anyway...as they asked the alledged prophet. Where in the bible does it say how long a single day was?

Well, it doesn't.

The sun was created on the 4th day. What about the 3 prior days? How long in reality were they? The bible does not tell us.

So, does it not leave open for interpetation that dinosaurs..etc..etc..could have been on the earth in those 3 prior days? They could have been millions upon mullions of year's.

Why not embrace it all?

Yes, I know..it is a mere theory. It is a part of my own theory but not all.
Anyway, it was a good movie.

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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 11:30:42 AM   
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ORIGINAL: knees2you


But I say raise Your kids right, and tell them
right from wrong, and how it is just Fantasy~



Which book of fantasy are you referring to? Harry Potter, or the Bible?

...I tried to resist....



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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 11:45:04 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: MrThorns


quote:

ORIGINAL: knees2you


But I say raise Your kids right, and tell them
right from wrong, and how it is just Fantasy~



Which book of fantasy are you referring to? Harry Potter, or the Bible?

...I tried to resist....



-laughs- Here here!!

And I've actually thought about that idea before sub4hire. I've always wondered what a single "day" would be for someone who has all the time in the world... Surely his/her/their 'day' would be quite longer than a day to us. Who's to say that evolution and creationism can't co-exist. I guess it just takes an open mind...

I'm quite happily agnostic for the time being. But I think most religions have merit. It's the people who practice them that give them a bad name in most cases.



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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 12:28:11 PM   
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I'm quite happily agnostic for the time being. But I think most religions have merit. It's the people who practice them that give them a bad name in most cases.


I totally agree with you. I've studied many religions over my year's just for myself. Not found one yet that is truly appealing, where the members do not preach hatred among their own members.


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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 6:47:48 PM   
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I totally agree with you. I've studied many religions over my year's just for myself. Not found one yet that is truly appealing, where the members do not preach hatred among their own members. sub4hire.


I believe there is no religion or cult that does not practice
some sort of Hatred against another religion or cult.

Me being a Christian, I just do what I feel Jesus would have done
while he was here.

They just found 2 pieces of Scroll with versus of
Leviticus.
I hope they will turn out to be authentic?

Sincerely, Ant

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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 8:28:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Some generic thoughts and questions I've thought about religion...any religion.

What influence does how many members have on its credibility?
In recent times, the word "cult" became a catch word; especially after the Jim Jones mass suicide. What is it that changes a "cult" into a "religion?"

What influence does how long the religion has been around have on its credibility? The Mormons have been around for roughly 200 years, started in update New York I believe...got kicked out of that area and settled in Minnesota...got massacred there and moved to present day Salt Lake City, Utah. Yet lots of followers are to be seen today.

Islam started in 622 A.D. and is now the biggest and fastest growing religion on earth.

Some religions are so old, nobody can tell for sure how they got started; which seems to add to their veracity by way of the mystery this creates.

Why are some religions taken more seriously than others...or given more substance of thought?
The many peoples in the Brazilian rain forests...they have their own religions. So do the Aborigines in Australia, and the !Kung or Massai in Africa. Are their religions any less valid because they are not modernized civilizations?

Why do some parts of the world have what could accurately be called "living philosophies" (guides for everyday living) that contain the same basic values as western belief systems that include a history of creation and detailed miraculous "events?"
What took place differently in each area that helped to create the unique belief structure that took root? Parts of northern China, Korea, and Japan don't have what we in the west would call a "religion." Yet their systems are as ancient if not older than the religions in the west and contain the same basic lessons for living...Taoism for example.

I'm not looking for answers but rather sharing these questions with you as food for thought to see what others may have to share. This way of looking into the nature of religion has always fascinated me.

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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 8:35:15 PM   
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Why are some religions taken more seriously than others...or given more substance of thought?


This is the only question I have a comment on at the moment. I believe it depends on how people behave within the religion.
Take scientology for instance. A lot of brand name stars in it. So it looks good. Well, now that Tom Cruise is actually acting somewhat normal and talking to the press we are all finding out how nuts he has been all of these years. Taking some credability away from Scientology.

I have no real clue, nor where to find the info out but I'd bet the largest religion in the US is catholic.


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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 9:26:54 PM   
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What I do know is one of my Aunts who lived in California and was fairly wealthy got cleaned out of all her money by Scientology. They don't come cheap.

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RE: Harry Potter versus the Bible? - 7/18/2005 9:32:51 PM   
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I think most people turned away from what they already knew to be true.
Although the Aborigines in Australia have created there own way of life,
They to believe in a higher being. Not nesessaryly God though.
Just as people in America have done, created their own way of life.

I was a buddhist, and paganist. It was in paganism, that I saw the devil
for what he truly was.

If there is Evil, then there must be Good~

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"It's not what You do before the Fire or after the Fire,
but what You do during the Fire."

Sincerely, Ant

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