Rowling presents true New Age heroes in other, more subtle ways. The powerful, famous "good" wizard of the story is Dumbledore. His loyal pet is named FAWKES. Guy Fawkes (1570-1606) was the Roman Catholic that is famous for the Gunpowder Plot. On the night of November 4-5, 1605, he was caught in the cellar underneath the House of Lords. He was arrested and hanged for conspiracy to blow up the English Parliament. This was really Satan's attempt to stop the Authorized Version from finding its way into the hands of the common people. To this day, every book on witchcraft, astrology, new age religion, etc. hates that one Book more than any other. The reason is that it is blunt in denouncing astrology, etc. Witches and astrologers find it easier to justify themselves with new versions (according to their own admissions - see "The Four Horsemen" by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, etc.). "Fawkes" becomes a name for a LOYAL pet in Harry Potter. Rowling's point is ominous. Perhaps this is one of many reasons that Catholics love the Harry Potter
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What, you think Guy Fawkes is the only person every named Fawkes throughout history?
As for each New Age religion hating any other new age religion, look to your own. Christianity has one of the bloodiest histories concerning hating and trying to stamp out other and older religions.
His loyal pet is a PHOENIX.
Phoenix. Fire. Bonfire. Guy Fawkes. It's a ****ing cute gag, not a subliminal instruction to rebel against your bloody book of lies.
"blunt in denouncing astrology"
Astrology has nothing to do with witchcraft! Astrology is more related to Christianity, especially during the Middle Ages.
And could you read into the book a little bit more? This isn't the Bible you are talking about, you can't just make whatever willy nilly interpretation of it that you like and consider it to be valid...
In the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum (first published in 1900), Dorothy owns a dog called Toto. The name of this animal comes from the band Toto, who released the song Africa in 1982. The song's story is told from the perspective of a man in Africa awaiting his female partner's inbound flight. The protagonist looks forward to their time together during the rainy season as it grants a reprieve from his normal responsibilities.
From this it is clear that the Wizard of Oz is a thinly disguised endorsement of sex outside marriage, irresponsibility and sloth. All God-fearing Christians would do well to burn all copies of the book before desecrating Baum's grave in the name of Jesus.
Yeah, it couldn't have been that a group of Protestants (one sect of Christianity) were trying to get rid of Catholics (another sect of Chrsitianity)...
Christians are so adept at hate that they even hate each other.
The King James Bible was produced by the Anglican Church. At the time, the main Bible used by Protestants was the Geneva Bible. The Anglicans were opposed to other Protestant sects, and it was a long time before the KJV was accepted by anyone other than Anglicans. The Europeans who first came to America, e.g., the Pilgrims, came here to escape the Anglicans. They used the Geneva Bible.
Since the KJV is about 95% identical to the Geneva Bible (which was already published) and used the Catholic Douay-Rheims translation as one of its sources (which the Geneva Bible didn't), Satan could hardly have been concerned with promoting Catholicism by thwarting the publication of the KJV. Besides, the KJV translation was done at Cambridge, Oxford and Westminster, not in the Parliament building.
FIY, Catholics are Christian and as much anti-New Age and Mumbo Jumbo as anybody else. And by the way, the authorised James Bible came from a homosexual secret Catholic King several years afterwards. The Bible, on the other hand, was a matter of eclesiastical NOT POLITICAL institutions. So, blowing the Parlament(many years before)was impractical.
@Osiris: the Catholic church hasn't taken a stand on Harry Potter. Some high rank Vatican officials love it, some loathe it but, again, as it has nothing to do with dogma whatsoever, they don't mingle. A very looney German woman tried to say that the Pope condemned Harry Potter. Facts, when he was prefect of the Office for the preservation of the faith, he wrote to her a letter, apparently. However, he has stated that it's a PERSONAL OPINION and that he has never read the books and that he's not at all concerned with a work of fiction. And most of the devout Catholics I know, read it with passion.
Guy Fawkes was hung, drawm and quartered and his head put on a spike.
He wasn't there to blow up th eplace to stop a certain version of the bible coming out.
The aim of the plot was to displace Protestant rule by attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament, while king James I and the entire Protestant aristocracy were inside, a reaction to increasing oppression of Roman Catholics in England.
Damn us Roman Catholics, the 'muslims' of yesteryears!
"The powerful, famous "good" wizard of the story is Dumbledore. His loyal pet is named FAWKES. Guy Fawkes (1570-1606) was the Roman Catholic that is famous for the Gunpowder Plot."
An impressively lame attempt at guilt by association.
"To this day, every book on witchcraft, astrology, new age religion, etc. hates that one Book more than any other."
No, no they don't.
"Catholics love the Harry Potter."
So do many Protestants (of the non-fundie type, naturally).
Yeah, and Hermione Granger really embodies Rowling's hate of Western Civilization. You see, if you switch the letters around in Hermione's name, you can find the Sanskrit words for 'I hate Christians.' Second, the school Hogwarts is obviously a comment on how we should all leave our families and worship the Beast (aka Professor Snape).
Also, all the characters are gay. Except for Cho. She's really a man (that's the REAL reason Harry had a crush on her!).
you forgot all the mentions of famous chemists, mathematicians, and other scientists, probably inserted to poke fun at fundies who call them witches and sorcerers
Fundies attack the Harry Potter books because they will eventually surpass the bible as "Best Selling Fantasy Books Of All Time."
Makes as much sense as any of the other reasons they claim for their hostility toward the Harry Potter series.
Just perused your site. You're incensed at what, exactly? That J.K. Rowling is a well-read author? That she knows about European history and folklore and, due to her subject matter, about the various hermetic traditions?
What's so effin' bad about that? It's history and it's culture. For instance, she derived most (fictitious) spell names from relevant Latin words. You know, the official language of the Church...
If Rowling is evil for knowing those names of "real" witches and druids, how come YOU know them? Oh, and still with all those references, Rowling is nothing against Alan Moore; if you want occultism, you should read the Promethera-comics. (sorry, couldn't work in any V for Vendetta-reference)
So? God's pet goat is called Satan. You must be evil if you name your pet goat Satan. Evil, evil, evil, evil.
New Age religions and beliefs have far less blood than Christianity. They are also a bit (or a lot) more accepting. Who's hateful? Also your bible has a character who uses magic, and a god who endorses rape, pillaging, death, slaughter...
@ #494246
FIY, Catholics are Christian and as much anti-New Age and Mumbo Jumbo as anybody else.
I have no doubt the Catholics are anti New-Age, but they have an impressive amount of mumbo-jumbo of their own: just google transubstantiation for proof.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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