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Harry
Potter's Fruit
In
a world filled with darkness and deception, Jesus warns us to be
vigilant. He equips us with a means to test all things in Matt 12:33,
"for the tree is known by its fruit." We are to test all things
by the fruit that it produces. "Make a tree good and its fruit will
be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad." The following
articles and quotes will shed some light on the type of fruit Harry
Potter is producing among our children.
The
Pagan Federation's media officer Andy Norfolk states in an article
authored by Berit Kjos, "Although it refuses to admit members under
age 18, it deals with an average of 100 inquiries a month from youngsters
who want to become witches, and claims it has occasionally been
'swamped' with calls."
This
quote by the Pagan Federation's Andy Norfolk was taken from the
newspaper, This Is London, Aug. 4, 1999. It states, "In response
to the increased queries coming from youngsters, we established
a youth officer, …it is quite probably linked to things like Harry
Potter, Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Buffy The Vampire Slayer."
An article from The Observer, Aug. 14, 2005, states "An Austrian
school for witchcraft and wizardry has reported a surge in recruitment
since the publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
…When the Hexenschule first opened in 2003, the world's press scoffed,
but two years later, it is booming."
USA
Today, Nov. 13,2002, stated "Hexenschule's founders freely thank
Harry Potter for the surge in attendance. Before the movie came
out last year, we had 40 students, Kulmitzer says. Now we have more
than double that. We think it is quite funny how the movie benefited
us."
The
Religion News Report for July 11, 2000, talking about Paganism and
Witchcraft, states, "Kate West heads the Hearth of Hecate, a coven
in Norfolk, in the UK. …Now she is writing a handbook for young
witches for the post-Harry Potter market, offering step-by-step
guidance to becoming a witch. West claims not to have read Harry
Potter, probably the real source of the current boom in bewitchment."
Camp
Beaumont, a very large, up-scale summer camp in the U.K., offers
a Witches and Wizards Camp to children from the ages of 6-13. This
camp is advertised as a Harry Potter-inspired summer school. "The
classes include: crystal ball reading, spell casting, …tea leaf
reading, memory spells and oath making." Here is a quote from their
website given by children who have attended the camp, "We decided
to go to Camp Beaumont School of Witchcraft and Wizardry because
we are HUGE fans of Harry Potter. During the week we read the future
(divination), …signed an oath."
This
quote is from The Edmonton Journal, Alberta , Canada, Jan. 16, 2006.
"Canadian children are about to see one of their greatest fantasies
come true: the opening of a real-life Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry. …Advertised as an 'adult version' of Hogwarts, the
Northern Star College of Mystical Studies is now taking applications…"
They go on in the article to equate each professor in Northern Star
College to each professor in Hogwarts. One of their professors states,
"Harry Potter starts to get everybody curious about the mystic inside
of them. …I think it stirs a yearning in people to know more than
just the five senses." This quote is also from The Edmonton Journal,
"Lumos 2006, A Harry Potter Symposium this July…This Las Vegas event,
which combines a fan convention with an academic conference, is
expected to attract 1,200 people, including dozens of professors
and educators from international universities."
These
are quotes taken from the website for Lumos 2006, The Harry Potter
Symposium. "Following our theme of 'Back to School', we are planning
a variety of daytime academic presentations and panels, including
special workshops for educators and librarians. …Night Classes will
give Lumos participants the opportunity to study Potions, Arithmancy,
Divination, and much more. Students will attend thirty minute classes
in up to six subjects taught at Hogwarts."
In
the San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 2000, a ten year old Gioia
Bishop, writes, "I was eager to get to Hogwarts first because I
like what they learned there and I want to be a witch."
A
book entitled, We Love Harry Potter, We'll Tell You Why, by Sharon
Moore, from beginning to end is full of quotes resembling this,
"I want to learn magic, so I'd like to go to wizard school. I'd
like to be able to put voodoo on bullies and enemies." Sarah-age
9
Here
is a statement by Peter Smith, General Secretary of the British
Association of Teachers and Lecturers. "…Harry Potter … will lead
to a whole new generation of youngsters discovering witchcraft and
wizardry…Increasing numbers of children are spending hours alone
browsing the internet in search of Satanic websites and we are concerned
that nobody is monitoring this growing fascination."
We
need to ask ourselves three questions
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1.
Do you believe in a real devil?
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2.
Do you believe the occult practices listed in Deuteronomy 18
are really dangerous and do they really come from Satan?
- 3.
How likely is it that the real devil, (Lucifer-Satan) has nothing
to do with the worlds fastest selling book on the planet, that
are communicating concepts of witchcraft to kids? (From:
Steven Wohlberg, Hour of the Witch)
Please
pray and ask the Lord's direction on how you could make a difference,
and what He would have you do to help save a generation.
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