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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 11/23/07 11:18:44 PM Age 16, NJ
I believe your all taking this just the wrong way. These books that many children adore are not for the witchcraft or Dumbledore, it's the adventure and morales it teaches children. A lot of you being Christian can agree that teaching children good morales and a good upbringing is vital to life. That is what the books DO. They teach us good from evil, they teach us the triumph of good over evil, they teach us respect for others and love one another. Everyone is just taking it out of proportion. Not once is it even mentioned in the 7 books about Dumbeldore's sexual preference, therefore why even bother? If you or I couldn't figure it out, do you think children will? Basically, adults just took over a great children's book and smashed and beat it to the ground. What inspired millions of children's, now fuels hatred, and why? Why do the books that deal with good triumphing over evil fuel hatred? All of you think before you even dare type. This book is not glorifying witchcraft, its a story that teaches love and care, something a lot of poeple do not care about these days.
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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 10/28/07 04:24:28 PM Age 52, CA
I believe this is all just the beginning...that in fact the real truth will be that MS. JO is, herself, gay. And yes, I too believe she had this thing planned LONG ago (the whole coming out thing) and there will be more to come...bets on new books coming in the future that explicitly promote the gay agenda....
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  1. Re: Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
    Posted On: 11/01/07 06:42:28 AMAge 49, OH
    I agree with most of what your feedback states; however, I don't agree with you saying that the writer is gay. You are making a judgement about the lady that is defamatory. Eph. 4:29 says, "Let not corrupt communication proceed out of thy mouth."
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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 10/26/07 08:26:01 AM Age 27, MN
God bless you for posting BIBLICAL TRUTH!!! I wish everyone could come to grips with this, and with the many other happenings taking place right before us. Thanks again for all that you do--you come from a great family!
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  1. Re: Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
    Posted On: 10/31/07 10:08:24 PMAge 18, OH
    I have been raised in the Christian faith my entire life and continue my practices here at college. I've read the Bible cover to cover...and I've also read all 7 books in the Harry Potter series. I believe Ms. Rowling to be a wonderful story teller and I think her books have helped a whole new generation ENJOY reading. I guess my comment is that in all my years in church and Bible study, I've never heard God "hating" anything as Biblical truth...
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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 10/26/07 12:31:11 AM Age 46, CA
I just read four of the novels 1-3 and the last. Rowling's recent announcement that Dumbledore was gay completely destroyed the second thoughts I'd been having. I never encouraged my children to read them. Now I never will. This gives a whole new creepiness to Dumbledore's and Snape's facination with Potter, don't you think?
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  1. Re: Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
    Posted On: 10/29/07 05:12:34 PMAge 24, TX
    Wow - that's taking it a bit far. Dumbledore and Snape didn't have creepy fascination for Harry Potter. That's really upsetting that you would even make a statement like that. Harry was alone - an orphan, destined to kill and to be killed himself. Dumbledore was a father figure, completely and only a father figure. Not a creepy old man with bad intentions. Snape hated Harry Potter because of his father - no sick fascination, merely a longtime grudge against the man who married the woman Snape loved. Key word there - woman. Snape isn't gay, he was in love with Harry's mother and chose evil over love. Human mistakes - Dumbledore made human mistakes too - but don't try to turn characters with faults into pedophiles. That's just sad.
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  2. Re: Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
    Posted On: 10/28/07 12:18:10 AMAge 25, FL
    Thats senseless there just books it's not like your kids are going to go off and try and be a gay wizard and second of all by reading them you can't tell that he's gay. You wouldn't even know if she didn't say somthing about it.
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      Posted On: 11/01/07 06:53:58 AMAge 49, OH
      Satan always has an agenda. Although she hasn't revealed any gay activity so far in her books, she will in the near future. I don't know if you have accepted Christ in your life, but the scriptures are clear on witchcraft. Satan knows, if it was written in an offensive manner, the parents wouldn't let their kids read it. Beer advertisements are made to look like it's fun to drink, but you and I know that the end results can be ruinous.
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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 10/25/07 10:40:45 PM Age 36, OK
All I have to say is Who cares? We can all go on and on about how bad Harry Potter is but when it comes down to it you have to do what God says and go by if he convicts you of it. I don't feel a bit bad about watching the movies or reading the books but that is my personal decision. As far as the abomination thing I feel that it is ridiculous to quote scripture on how God feels about practicing witchcraft, these are FICTION not reality and reading the book doesn't make me want to practice witchcraft either. There are so many other important issues in the world than getting all upset because Dumbledore is gay, geez we all need to get a life...
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  1. Re: Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
    Posted On: 11/01/07 07:01:37 AMAge 49, OH
    Two things I have to say to you: (1) I feel sorry for you! (2) I'm glad God doesn't have your attitude.
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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 10/25/07 10:33:33 PM Age 28, OH
There are many interesting responses to this article. My husband and I personally never allowed our son to read this series (which he tried to do at school without permission because of all the hype and his friends reading it...one more reason for us to consider homeschooling so that he can't do things behind our back). I don't think that just because something is fiction that it isn't dangerous for our children to be exposed to. I know many people have said to me that kids who wouldn't normally read, will pick up these books, so at least they are reading. I don't agree with that way of thinking. Children are SO VERY impressionable. Even if we as adults, can look at the difference between real and make believe, that doesn't mean our children can...or that we should test their skill in this! And we as Christians, are called to high standards. We censor what our son watches, and what he reads should be no different. I think that our children can be led astray by anything...even if it is subtle. This issue is just one more example of secularism trying to promote the gay agenda so that our children WILL think it is acceptable from the time they are young, or give them enough doubt/reason to question when they are being taught differently.
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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 10/25/07 09:45:54 PM Age 24, TX
Jo Rowling says that she always considered the character of Albus Dumbledore to be gay. As a longtime reader, I can understand why she felt the need to make this statement. In the first few books it's not necessary to understand the character. Having read book seven (published in July in case someone managed to miss the hype) I can understand why she's now making the claim. It really does explain the last book so much more clearly now. Whether you like the books or not, you cannot make the claim that it has no place in the story. It does in the final book, and helps explain everything Dumbledore does throughout the series. I understand how many(most) Christians feel about the issue of Harry Potter, and the issue of homosexuality in general. I am 100% for parents teaching their children what they believe is right and wrong, and what the Bible says is right and wrong. However, there comes a time when people have to make the choice for themselves. Personally, I wouldn't touch the books until my pastor, who was so bogged down with questions by parents about the books finally sat down to read them himself. The third book had just been published and he read them in order to answer the questions put forth by the congregation. His verdict? It's up to you. He presented the facts - what the books teach, what they don't teach. He said that he would not tell anyone in the church to read or avoid them. He did, however, say that he enjoyed the books, and would read them with his family - keeping the last book aside until his daughter (10 at the time) was old enough to understand the changes. Because of this response, I made the decision to read the first book. I haven't been able to stop reading them since. I adore the series. I love the characters, the story, the life lessons that can be pulled from them. If I ever have children, they will be exposed to Harry Potter. They will understand that the books are a story, a fantasy, no different than Narnia, or Middle Earth. I'm sure that statement will be met with displeasure, but it's the truth. Rowling did not set out to turn all of the world's children into Wiccans. She did not set out to beautify the occult. The books are not about those things. The books do not condone those things. When a child tells Jo Rowling that they've been practicing the spells in the book, she responds, "Don't bother. They aren't real." So she wants to promote peace and tolerance in her books. I don't understand why people get so upset about a fictional character's closet outing and they cannot get upset about the genocide going on in the Darfur region of Sudan. Get up in arms about something real. Stop sitting at your computers and griping about an author and her story and do something that will change the world - or at least help a little bit. Dumbledore is gay. Let it go. Don't read the books, don't watch the movies. But if you feel the need to have a fit about something - have a fit that can save lives, not one that merely feels like a mosquito bite.
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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 10/25/07 09:36:12 AM Age 43, TX
I totally agree with this article. Deut. 18 is very clear about God's heart toward witchcraft and magic. It saddens me how many christians don't apply His word to some of C.S. Lewis' writings or The Lord of The Rings as well as Harry Potter. I believe witchcraft is witchcraft, even in entertainment. His word stands on its own, He doesn't need stories or analogies based on witchcraft. :)
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  1. Re: Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
    Posted On: 10/26/07 03:21:32 PMAge 20, CA
    How delightfully one-dimensional and predictable this article was! It fails to launch out of the paradigm the author wanted to find displayed in the books. We have to consider authorial intent here. Just because Rowling always thought Dumbledore to be gay in her mind, our real concern must be the textual evidence for this when deciding the value of the books. If Rowling wanted to push a pro-Gay rights agenda, she could have easily worked it more explicitly into the text, but she didn't. The text is remarkably ambiguous on this issue, whereas Rowling is otherwise characteristically creative and poignant in her portrayal of issues. Additionally, Rowling has been markedly careful about what she says to the media and when she says it. Could it be, perhaps, that the media, including the author of this article, willingly take the bait and become those reporters and journalists who, as illustrated in five of the seven books, are concerned with this type of yellow journalism and sensationalism. Three things we can learn today are: 1) Rowling's diagnosis of critics in her work is painfully accurate, 2) We should show caution in taking the careful statements of a mistress of narrative misdirection at face value, and 3)perhaps we should show some pause in judgment, lest we fall into the extended universe of a writer whose story may not have ceased with her books.
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  2. WHAT DEFINES WITCHCRAFT
    Posted On: 10/25/07 07:15:33 PMAge 64, OH
    It is not "magic" that makes witchcraft what it is. Someone could call the miracles of Jesus Christ "magic". But Jesus is not guilty of witchcraft. Witchcraft is using "magic" or miracles for your own purposes. Some professing Christians claim to have gifts of the Holy Spirit and do "miracles". If their power of miracles does not come from God and it was their idea to do the miracle and not God then it is witchcraft. All the miracles done in C S Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" are by the power of the Lion ( a symbol of the Lion of Judah)and not of humans. The whole story is about submitting oneself to God Almighty and not have your own way. That is not witchcraft. I gave the Chronicles of Narnia to a lot of my students and they came to me after they read them and asked to give their life to Jesus Christ. Jesus said to judge by the fruit. Do you think a work of the Devil would lead people to Jesus Christ. Lou
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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 10/25/07 09:09:03 AM Age 44, NE
This article brings up a point that I have been pondering for some time. "Are novels, or movies for that matter, neutral?" Just as Christianity Today touted the Potter books as an example of good versus evil, many Hollywood movies are quoted by pastors on Sunday morning. The dilemma is that by looking through what the world has to offer, we are sifting through garbage trying to find something of value. Christianity is not "good versus evil". It is that mankind is sinful, sin leads to death, and all of the good in the world will not save us. Jesus was not a "good" man. Jesus is God, perfect in every way, and died to destroy sin. When we dig through the garbage, we may find something that looks appealing, but closer examination will show that it has been tainted by its contact with the other garbage. As a pastor, I am extremely reluctant to quote from literature or movies, as it will be seen as an endorsement. There is tension between being Holy, and being relevant. While Jesus was willing to rub shoulders with sinners, he remained sinless. (when you work with sheep, you end up smelling like sheep) We need to stop looking through the garbage for our daily bread. None of the world's best literature, movies, or music can give us a good example of what the Bible so plainly tells us. We should not be shocked when we find it contradicts Christianity. It started out flawed (tainted). I am not saying we should be ignorant of what is going on around us. But don't try to bend it, twist it, or otherwise make it conform to scripture. It isn't going to happen.
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Re: Harry Potter and the Gay Wizard: The Secret Behind the Story
Posted On: 10/24/07 09:36:40 PM Age 35, MD
Very well written. Thank you for reminding us to hate what the Lord hates and to stand for truth. Ephesians 6:10-20.
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