Guest dec2057 Posted July 31, 2009 Report Posted July 31, 2009 If you look for the good in life - you will find it. If you look for the bad, you will surely find that, too. There are messages in all things, bad and good. Quote
NeuroTypical Posted July 31, 2009 Report Posted July 31, 2009 (edited) Stripped down, Harry Potter is essentially a story about good triumphing over evil, is it not?It's always a fun debate to have with an athiest. My claim, is that unless you have some ultimate source of good and evil (God and the devil), then the best you can hope for is a story about nice triumphing over mean.And I haven't found even the teeniest, tiniest hint of God anywhere in Harry Potter. Stuff is that way because it just is. In Rowling's world, there isn't good or evil - only power, those who can wield it, and the reasons they use for wielding it.It is, almost exactly, the same worldview of the Golden Compass books.IMHO, Tolkein's Lord of the Rings universe is far superior to both Potter and GC. There is indeed good and evil to be found in Tolkein's world. I've heard a story that Tolkein even had a hand in C.S. Lewis' conversion to Christianity - with Tolkein making the claim that the only thing that could keep someone from being Christian, is a lack of imagination.LM Edited July 31, 2009 by Loudmouth_Mormon Quote
cwadrupldijjit Posted August 1, 2009 Report Posted August 1, 2009 Hopefully we are more receptive to the good. President Gordon B. Hinkley said that we shouldn't stew over the bad, and look toward the good. I prefer this strategy. Quote
Majorbookworm Posted September 26, 2009 Report Posted September 26, 2009 The Harry Potter books are awesome, and they actually get kids to read!They are about as demonic or satanic as "The Wizard of Oz", or any other work of children's fiction.That is very true. The first chapter books my younger sister actually read were the Harry Potter series. She read all seven books within two months. For not reading a lot much before that, reading them that fast was pretty good. Quote
Prodigal_Son Posted September 26, 2009 Report Posted September 26, 2009 (edited) 21.) He who doth not recognize the ancient good-opposing-evil lessons of these records of the people of Hogwarts and Muggledom and lay hold upon them and treasure them up in their hearts - verily, verily, I say unto you, shall have no reward in heaven. Edited September 27, 2009 by Prodigal_Son Quote
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