Friday, July 15, 2011

Why I Won't Be Seeing Harry Potter!

Did you go out to see Harry Potter at 12:01 am? I did not and my kids did not. Why? First off Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a scary title for a kids movie. Second, I get the creeps when I see that haunted guy with a smashed nose on all the movie pictures. As a teacher, I read the first two books, then part of the third book and I stopped reading the series. Why? The books are dark. The first two are designed to bait you into the series and the starting in book three the forces of evil begin to hook you with witchcraft. Harry Potter is witchcraft, yet young kids are reading it all over the world. What happens when you read witchcraft? Well, it has "side effects." Let's just say that you open yourself up spiritually to things that you were previously protected from. I was reading about the side affects of participating in Witchcraft and one of them was "seizures." Believe it or not, one of my very young family members who loves Harry Potter started having seizures. I know too many parents who are very casual with Harry Potter, even spiritual people, who need to know that Witchcraft is against what God teaches.

" There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass though the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord." Deuteronomy 18: 10-12

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