"Am I therefore become your enemy,because I TELL YOU THE TRUTH...?"
(Galatians 4:16)

JK Rowling's Harry Potter condemned in Vatican newspaper

An article in the Vatican’s official newspaper has condemned JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books for posing a danger to children by promoting witchcraft and the occult. In a damning indictment of the bestselling books, among the most successful in publishing history, the Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, has called the teenage boy wizard “the wrong kind of hero”.Under the headline 'The double face of Harry Potter’, the lengthy article concludes: “Despite the values that we come across in the narration, at the base of this story, witchcraft is proposed as a positive ideal. "The violent manipulation of things and people comes thanks to knowledge of the occult. “The ends justify the means because the knowledgeable, the chosen ones, the intellectuals know how to control the dark powers and turn them into good.“This a grave and deep lie, because it is the old Gnostic temptation of confusing salvation and truth with a secret knowledge.”“The characterisation of common men who do not know magic as 'muggles’ who know nothing other than bad and wicked things is a truly diabolical attitude.”The piece goes on to compare Harry Potter unfavourably with two other great British children’s classics, the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, epics both written by Christians with deeply-held beliefs.The article, by Edoardo Rialti, a professor of literature at Florence University, said that the works of Tolkien and Lewis show “a transcendence and the beauty of the infinite.”Harry Potter books, he said, have an “inverted and confused spirituality: a world where bad is good” and that they are characterised by a “vague, new-age philosophy”.
However, his attack was answered in a parallel article on the same page by Paolo Gulisano, the author of a book on Tolkien.Mr Gulisano wrote of Harry Potter: “He carries the reader from the vision of a selfish man towards a vision of a man guided by moral values, the choice of good, sacrifice, friendship, love.”The Vatican line on JK Rowling’s teenage wizard has hardened considerably since Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a hardline theologian said by some to have strong views on the Devil and exorcism, succeeded Pope John Paul II.[[[The latter once praised JK Rowling for leading the life of a good Christian and Holy See officials during his papacy said that Harry Potter was clearly fighting against Satanism.(sigh...blind guiding the blind)But two years before he was elected Pope, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote a letter to a supporter calling the Potter story “a subtle seduction, which has deeply unnoticed and direct effects in undermining the soul of Christianity before it can really grow properly”. ]]]A spokesman for JK Rowling declined to comment.
PS:Lots of people call themselves "christians" and they are so deceived...that they believe in their minds that they are.Holding strong beliefs,or opinions haven't taken anybody to heaven,,,yep may be you are a CS LEwis or a Tolkien lover.Their work has nothing of christian even though now there are movies made out of their books...Why explaining the gospel with the occult and magic....?Christians should be careful to what they label as "christian"...We are at the end of the great falling away....And most christians have been already beguiled by the strong spirit of delusion unleashed against the church that has found its way,thanks to sleeping pastors and slumbering congregations,drunk with a spirit of deception....
As in the days of Noah.....