Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Yes wicca is a religion, but i fail to see your point are you jelous because someone has actually acheived in promoting a religion to the youger generation something the christian church has been trying to do for centuries a religion that the church was so scared of that they decided to burn,torture,mame,drown(well you get the picture)thousands of inoccents for. Have we not moved on from the times of the Inquests, do we not promote freedom of speech(or writing for that matter) or are you just closed minded? While I agree that some of the points you made have a certain validity to them the fact is it is a fictional book.It isn't a referance point for Wicca-101 nor do I think that droves of children have converted wicca just because of it. Because like any religion it wicca is a life choice.

May the God smile upon you by day and the Godess watch over you and bless you by night.

Blessed Be

Are you on drugs or something? :)

Is witchcraft a REAL religion out there? Are there web sites that

present witchcraft as a real alternative to Christianity? If so, then the

Harry Potter books must be seen as Wiccan propaganda. The witches are not

presented as evil creatures (as in fairy tales). The witches are the

HEROES of the book. When a child in earlier days read about Daniel Boone,

he wanted to go explore the woods and fight with a dangerous bear.

Certainly such books had their own dangers. But there were no widespread

Daniel Boone cults that presented themselves as an alternative to

Christianity. When "Evel Knieval" was the big craze, all the young boys in

America began jumping ramps with their bikes, and many indeed broke their

legs, if not their necks. When children read Superman comics, they wanted

to pretend they were Superman. But there was no cult out there

called "the Superman cult" that presented itself as an alternative to

Christianity! What will children who read about Harry Potter want to do?

They will want to pretend they are witches and wizards. But wait one

second: there ARE hundreds of web sites out there that advocate true

witchcraft! And they DO present themselves as an alternative to

fundamental Christianity.

But someone objects by saying that the witches in the Potter books are

fictitious. I do not see how this is any objection. But instead of

worrying about that, it is important to point out that Rowling presents

REAL WITCHES as heroes in the context of fictitious ones!:

"Chocolate Frogs have cards inside them, you know, to collect - famous

witches and wizards. I've got about five hundred....Ron was more

interested in eating the frogs than looking at the famous Witches and

Wizards cards, but Harry couldn't keep his eyes off them. Soon he had not

only Dumbledore and Morgana, but Hengis of Woodcroft, Alberic,

Grunnion, Circe, PARACELSUS, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes away

from the druidess Cliodna, who was scratching her nose..." (pp.102, 103)

Cliodna was the daughter of a High Druid. Circe was a sorceress in Greek

mythology who turned people into swine. Yet, Paracelsus (1493-1541) is a

REAL hero of modern day witches and wizards! He was an ALCHEMIST (i.e.

sorcerer). Albert Pike (Mason) wrote in his "Morals and Dogma" (1950,

1871):

"The Hermetic Art is, therefore, at the same time a religion, a

philosophy, and a natural science...we must inquire for its processes of

Paracelsus [and] Nicholas Flamel..." (p.774)

Pike attempts to take his initiates into the mysteries of TRUE OCCULTISM.

He lists two heroes who "held the torch" of this mystery religion in the

middle ages. One of these is Paracelsus, who shows up on a trading card as

a model hero for Rowling's young readers! So it's all just fantasy? no

children will go to their library and explore the life and writings

of Paracelsus? But Rowling is not through. Pike also mentions Nicholas

Flamel as a Masonic (occult) hero.