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	<title>Comments on: Harry Potter and the Christian Allegory</title>
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		<title>By: Aerandir</title>
		<link>http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/08/harry-potter-and-christian-allegory.html/comment-page-1#comment-1129</link>
		<dc:creator>Aerandir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, the links to Christianity are only one side of the coin. I&#039;ve written an article on Harry Potter and the references to Occultism last month (unfortunatly it&#039;s in Dutch).&lt;br/&gt;There are certain aspects that are quite intrueging. To name a few: the resemblances between Dumbledore and Eliphas Levi on one side and Voldemort and Anton LaVey on the other. The presentation of &quot;Horcruxes&quot;, which resemble thoughts of Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516),in  “The art of drawing spirits into crystals&quot;. The same goes for &quot;occlumency&quot; and the thoughts of Giordano Bruno, in &quot;De Umbris Idearum&quot; and &quot;Ars Memoriae&quot;.&lt;br/&gt;I think you can&#039;t just dismiss Rowling&#039;s inspiration as being &quot;Christian values&quot;, there&#039;s much more to it.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Of course, there are some Christian values inside her books. After all, most of those values are rather universal and can be found in many religions. And, a fact which most people seem to forget, the whole &quot;magic and occultism&quot; thing is a typical western tradition (there are others, but those aren&#039;t too well known in Europe or America for that matter), and was dominated by Christianity (if not Catholicism) from it&#039;s origins until the late 19th century. It&#039;s unthinkable to imagine &quot;Magic&quot;, without the Christian influences.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, the links to Christianity are only one side of the coin. I&#8217;ve written an article on Harry Potter and the references to Occultism last month (unfortunatly it&#8217;s in Dutch).<br />There are certain aspects that are quite intrueging. To name a few: the resemblances between Dumbledore and Eliphas Levi on one side and Voldemort and Anton LaVey on the other. The presentation of &#8220;Horcruxes&#8221;, which resemble thoughts of Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516),in  “The art of drawing spirits into crystals&#8221;. The same goes for &#8220;occlumency&#8221; and the thoughts of Giordano Bruno, in &#8220;De Umbris Idearum&#8221; and &#8220;Ars Memoriae&#8221;.<br />I think you can&#8217;t just dismiss Rowling&#8217;s inspiration as being &#8220;Christian values&#8221;, there&#8217;s much more to it.</p>
<p>Of course, there are some Christian values inside her books. After all, most of those values are rather universal and can be found in many religions. And, a fact which most people seem to forget, the whole &#8220;magic and occultism&#8221; thing is a typical western tradition (there are others, but those aren&#8217;t too well known in Europe or America for that matter), and was dominated by Christianity (if not Catholicism) from it&#8217;s origins until the late 19th century. It&#8217;s unthinkable to imagine &#8220;Magic&#8221;, without the Christian influences.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason Pitzl-Waters</title>
		<link>http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/08/harry-potter-and-christian-allegory.html/comment-page-1#comment-1077</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason Pitzl-Waters</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;To claim a strong christian message to &quot;Harry Potter&quot; sounds to me like many christian parents coming to grips with the fact that censorship is wrong...&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Or it could be that people are paying attention to what the author of the books has been saying for some time now, and looking at the actual  Biblical references within the books.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;To claim a strong christian message to &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; sounds to me like many christian parents coming to grips with the fact that censorship is wrong&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Or it could be that people are paying attention to what the author of the books has been saying for some time now, and looking at the actual  Biblical references within the books.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/08/harry-potter-and-christian-allegory.html/comment-page-1#comment-1076</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since when is christianity the only religion which believes in an existence after death? Are christians the only ones who observe celebrations at midwinter?&lt;br/&gt;The answers are obvious!To me, the only question is: why does evrything have to be &quot;christian&quot;?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Why are no wicce, druids, asartru, romuva, etc., claiming their festivals, beliefs, etc., from &quot;Harry Potter&quot;? Probably because these groups feel no need to bully the world into following their paths, nor have the inclination to interject themselves, so often fallaciously, into every aspect of everyday life. To claim a strong christian message to &quot;Harry Potter&quot; sounds to me like many christian parents coming to grips with the fact that censorship is wrong, and that denying their children access to these erstwhile satanic works hasn&#039;t worked so very well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since when is christianity the only religion which believes in an existence after death? Are christians the only ones who observe celebrations at midwinter?<br />The answers are obvious!To me, the only question is: why does evrything have to be &#8220;christian&#8221;?</p>
<p>Why are no wicce, druids, asartru, romuva, etc., claiming their festivals, beliefs, etc., from &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221;? Probably because these groups feel no need to bully the world into following their paths, nor have the inclination to interject themselves, so often fallaciously, into every aspect of everyday life. To claim a strong christian message to &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; sounds to me like many christian parents coming to grips with the fact that censorship is wrong, and that denying their children access to these erstwhile satanic works hasn&#8217;t worked so very well.</p>
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