Thanks.

Hope you have not been working on Sunday. "Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..." Hope you never made a bird in art class or a turtle carving for your home and gardens club. If your children have, then I suggest you tell them that they have made Satan happy. Don't want those sins to add up. In other words, don't quote the Bible for the messages that you didn't insert will come back to bite you later! The Harry Potter series is not to be blamed for this. It just proves that parents have not given their children the proper teachings. If HP did not exist, then there would be letters like this speaking out against Bugs Bunny and how he influences children smack while eating carrots. If your child does not know the difference between fantasy and reality, then you as a parent have not done your duties. Besides if television must raise a child, I'd rather J.K. Rowling do it than most of those other things out there. As a child I knew that if I hit someone, that they'd feel pain, and that guns caused people to die. It's the people that tell their children that grandma was tired and needed some rest, that raise the murderers and pagans. Tell your children from the beginning, "this is not real, Daniel Radcliffe is a real boy over in europe" etc. and sit down with them while watching the making of the movie. If the parents don't take responsibility for not even being there while their child is watching television and explaining what it is that they see, then the creator of that show/movie is not to blame for the lack of guidance. In this case all television is evil. "don't watch the weather channel Tommy, because they claim to forsee the weather, that's evil" "don't watch Barney Jenny, because dinosaurs are extinct and he is not truly who he claims to be". YOU have to draw the line somewhere, if not, then your child will have the Santa Clause complex for someone not so "merry".

I have to say I agree with ecthelio… Look around you-- the world is full of images and things that were railed against in the Bible. Even if you took your children out in the woods and raised them until adulthood, they would still learn things the Bible preaches against before you let them go out into the world-- and they would not be prepared for the world, either. They would be arrested for stoning to death the first person they saw out here, just because they believed the Bible completely. 1. The Bible was written by men. Yes, God does speak through men... and women... and even J. K. Rowling. People are falliable-- they speak in parables and tales and the Bible is full of tales children shouldn't take to heart, as full as it is of good morals and history. 2. "Paganism", as you put it, is the set of religions that existed before Christianity, and Christianity is based on Pagan beliefs. I promise you, if you study history you will discover this to be 100% true. 3. J. K. Rowling's books teach important lessons and should not be ridiculed. Children and even adults tend to believe things they shouldn't. It's less likely to happen if parents teach their kids to tell fact from fantasy. I see your point, but the opposing viewpoints should be considered carefully before you go to so much trouble to speak on a subject.