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| December 2001 |
Vol.4, No. 10
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Breaking the Spell of Harry
Potter
While America wages war in a "just
cause" in Afghanistan, audiences are flocking to two current movies dealing
with witchcraft and sorcery. How does God view this scene? Can a nation call for
God's blessing while it exports witchcraft?
by Darris McNeely
"Oh, I feel so sorry for those American churches who keep Halloween and
encourage their people to celebrate such a demonic custom. They don't know what they
are doing!" So said a Bulgarian Protestant minister in a phone conversation
with me a few months ago. The gentleman was calling to discuss the beliefs of the
United Church of God. When I explained that we observed the biblical Holy Days rather
than traditional holidays of the world, he mentioned how sad it was to watch his
fellow Protestant churches observe what to him were obvious pagan practices.
We are seeing today a rise in fascination with the occult, in a far more focused
way. This winter, movie audiences are being served a double dose of occult entertainment
with the release of movies based on the highly successful Harry Potter and
Lord of the Rings novels. People, and in the case of the Potter movie, young
children, are flocking to the cineplexes to watch the film incarnations of these
fictional characters from the world of witchcraft and sorcery.
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