About this title: Arbanes takes a deep look at the Harry Potter series, revealing "dangerous messages" that, according to Arbanes, Christian parents may want to be aware of. His work supports the Evangelical idea that Harry Potter encourages witchcraft and magic in our youth.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Horizon Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780889652019ISBN:0889652015
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"Is there a rating less than one star? This book represents everything that is wrong with the fundamentalist-evangelical form of Christianity that is so prevalent in the United States. By taking a book that is benign in its intentions and miraculous in its ability to encourage young people to read, to think, to use their minds, and then turning that book into the anti-Christ, Abanes has taken a step in the direction of the Ayatollah banning Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses and placing a mark on that author's head. Everything about Rowling's work is distorted and misrepresented, and her accomplishments not just overlooked, but completely ignored."
"Abanes makes some good points about real-world occultism, but none of his complaints can stick to the Potter novels. He so consistently misunderstands the Potter novels that it is clear he should stick to refuting the occult in our world."
"I was curious what objections the Christians had to the Harry Potter phenomenon, so I read. Though the author had done his research, I was pretty appalled to see him making excuses for Christian fantasy writers (i.e., Lewis, Tolkien) and saying it was okay for them to have magic-using characters (like the elves in Lord of the Rings) because they were using inborn abilities while Harry Potter kids are studying the occult. (Er, no, the Harry Potter kids had natural magical abilities that they used with no training, even if they did later go to school to refine them.) Anyway. I didn't rate this book low just because I don't agree with it; I rated it low because it was so obvious to me that the author was capable of doing good research but did not do so in an honorable objective way. He was searching for evidence specifically to prove his point and skewed the evidence when necessary in order to make it say what he wanted it to. I find this very dishonest. I do think he's right (putting aside any feelings *I* have about whether it's bad for children to get into Wicca) that the Harry Potter books have enough references to "real" magic stuff that kids could get interested in if they were paying enough attention, but most kids who weren't going to get interested in "real witch" activities when they were older ANYWAY are not going to be persuaded to do so by these children's fantasy books."
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