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Harry Potter Craze Comments by Bill Hicks

In the old story of the man called Pied Piper; he played a beautiful hypnotic melody on his flute and all the children of the village followed him away from their parents.

These Books and Movies on the Little Witch or Warlock called Harry Potter are being hyped by Hollywood, TV, News Papers and other Publicity forums They are getting a huge following. Children and unknowing ill informed parents are reaping huge profits for the author, printing companies, movie industry book stores and TV networks.

They are leading children into the evil world of the occult, demons and Satan. The Bible speaks of this occurring during the last days. Children who have participated in occult or violent video games, or used Ojai boards have later committed heinous crimes.

The Bible condemns occult practices. Satan is the arch enemy of God and when a person engages in those things, they are consorting with Gods enemy. They are leaving themselves open to Demons. These are more signs of the corrupting of mankind and civilization in preparation for the anti Christ.

Millions of young minds and their parents will accept Satans man of the hour when he appears for they will already have been conditioned to believe the great lie. They will reject the truth of God for the lies of Satan and his followers.

If you or your children have been involved in this. Throw away the those books,vidios or any thing of the occult and pray to God to forgive you and teach your children the things of God.

Go to church and take your children with you. Set a good example as a Christian believer before your children. Live your lives according to the Bible, not the customs of this world. Be ye different for you are a chosen generation, pilgrims and strangers in this world. When you are saved you are children of Gods family washed by the blood of Jesus. You are ambassadors of the Kingdom of God and heirs of eternal life. Your sins are washed away by the precious blood of Jesus.

You are delivered from Satans kingdom of darkness and have come into Gods beautiful Kingdom of light. Live as people of the Kingdom of light don't participate in evil any more. God will give you the gift of the Holy Spirit to live inside of you and help you to understand the Bible and over come evil temptations.

Read the Bible pray with your family be born again, be baptized and live the happy Christian life with your family.

The evil we are seeing in the world is just one of the many signs that Jesus is coming soon. Get saved. Go to this web site an click on how to be saved.

Be ready for the Lord to come. He will take you and your loved ones to his wonderful kingdom that he has prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Below you will find what the Bible Deuteronomy 18: 9-14 says about occult

9When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
Please see the excellent comments by Jan Markell below

July 16, 2005 - Harry Potter: Politically Correct Paganism

Chaos reigned in my home town July 16 at midnight. Little kids roamed the streets in ecstasy as they had just purchased the new Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Most were dressed like witches and wizards. They are addicted, but not to righteousness. And they just want to be like Harry and, if possible, attend Hogwarts' School of Witchcraft. When told it doesn't really exist, they are heartbroken.

Okay, so J.K. Rowlings is the second richest woman in England only preceded by the Queen because she can spin a good fantasy tale. There are "Christian Potter advocates" out there who will tell you that you can find God in Harry Potter. Entire denominations have endorsed him and respected Christian magazines as well. I have only a few paragraphs to persuade you differently so here goes.

Harry Potter is a wizard. Excuse me, but how many times does the Bible warn of us wizards, witches, witchcraft, sorcery, spells, incantations, and more? Aren't Christians to have no fellowship with darkness? (II Cor. 6:14-17) Rowlings says each book is getting darker and darker and she is right. He and his pals actually engage in between 75 and 100 practices forbidden in the Bible. Some are pretty gross, in fact. It's pretty tough to think about anything, "true, honorable, lovely, of good report, etc." as it says in Philippians 4:8 when one is focused on Potter gimmicks. He's almost always involved in occultic-type things including drinking blood and talking to the dead (necromancy). Oh, and Harry's "shed blood" has magical powers. Shouldn't that be a huge red flag?

You may be saying, "But this is a struggle of good vs. evil, so what do you expect?" You're right. It's "good" wizards and sorcerers battling "bad" wizards and sorcerers and in the end who wins--wizards and sorcerers! Christian Potter advocates need to grasp that this is not the way the Kingdom of God works. We want righteousness and Godliness to win, and in the end, it does! Read the last chapter of the Bible. And do you think that J.K. Rowlings, who doesn't understand the Bible any more than I understand the engine of my car or the guts of my computer, actually intended this to have true spiritual overtones?

So the Potter plot may be fantasy/fiction, but the setting and characters promote an occult-based worldview that kids accept as truth in normal life. What's cool in Harry's life is cool in their world, but Harry's world is surrounded and characterized by evil. Standards of behavior are distorted. Good and evil are just how you perceive it (situation ethics). There are no absolutes which is just what our post-modern culture needs. Harry is often rewarded for doing evil such as when he lies and cheats. Aren't there about a dozen red flags by now?

The Potter books and movies cleverly mask the evil concepts by presenting evil in a fantastic and alluring child's world. The biblically illiterate are fooled, and how sad when biblically literate parents are fooled and are just happy that finally their kids are reading.

Since organizations like the Pagan Federation of England state that they are recruiting hundreds of inquiring kids thanks to Potter, shouldn't that be a storm warning? In that hundreds of witchcraft Web sites are linked to Potter Web sites, does that sound an alarm?

Mysticism and love of the supernatural are thriving today even in some churches. Thus, the wonderfully mystical and emotionally awesome experience of Harry Potter fit right in. Today a lot of people crave the supernatural as well as "experiences" and even "signs and wonders." We're just far enough into the last days' apostasy so that it's actually spun out of control. J.K. Rowlings timed things well.

According to Gallup, at least one third of kids under age 18 have read a Harry Potter book or seen a movie. No, it won't lead every kid down the primrose path of witchcraft and Satanism but why should we give the devil an inch when he will want a yard or even a mile?

I have had some so-called "Christian Potter advocates" on my radio program. One told me that Jesus would use Potter as parables for children if He were around today, or would have in His day. I'm sorry, but Harry Potter is a different gospel. Deception and delusion abound here. He is a product of evil being called good (Isaiah 5:20). If Potter products are tools for the Kingdom, I have to ask, which Kingdom? Since author J.K. Rowlings promised to make each episode darker (and has done so), I hardly think she had in mind the Kingdom of God.

I strongly recommend Caryl Matrisciana's film: "Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged" available at www.caryltv.com and also my entire category of "Harry Potter" at my Web site, www.olivetreeviews.org.

Awaiting His return,
Jan Markell
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