The book review

[elfs]

Consider for a moment the fact that no sane parents would give their children books which portrayed a set of "good" pimps and prostitutes valiantly fighting a set of "bad" pimps and prostitutes, and using the sexual acts of prostitution as the thrilling dynamic of the story.

While amythis wins the award for the coffee-through-the-nose response, the real answer is, of course, the Harry Potter series.

And I can't see any problem with the writer's logic. The Biblical injunctions against sorcery and witchcraft are much more serious and dire than the ones against sexual immorality; you can occasionally get away with the latter. Nothing Jesus said invalidates those injunctions: they remain in play. The only difference is that when Jesus spoke them the Jewish nation was under Roman occupation, so his words are tempered the knowledge of what his followers actually have the means to accomplish.

[Edit: Found Harry Potter and the Death of God. Warning: It's the Freepers. "Expect sickness."]

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

You realize, of course, that it's now a moral responsibility to actually write a a set of stories using Amythis' concept?

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

There's elements of that piece which are quite rational, if you accept the particular axioms.

But there's all sorts of stuff seeping in which doesn't come from my neighbourhoods view of Christianity.

And some aspects of the article, such as the discussion of the fear of death, could be developed into some serious, and useful, analysis. But when he chooses to cast an issue in terms of euthanasia and assisted suicide, there is so much that he misses. And some of that's cultural: I wonder what the Japanese reaction would be to the whole business, before you even start to consider the question of saving D.M. from committing a mortal sin.

It's ironic that, even as JKR is lauded for the complexity of her characters, she is being criticised by the standards of a simplistic form of Christianity being applied to a simplified form of the book.

A Quibble

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

The Biblical injunctions against sorcery and witchcraft are much more serious and dire than the ones against sexual immorality; you can occasionally get away with the latter. Nothing Jesus said invalidates those injunctions: they remain in play.

Not necessarily. The Council of Jerusalem (see Acts) trimmed away almost all of the Levitical edicts and prohibitions for non-Jewish Christians, including the prohibitions of sorcery, except the Ten Commandments. The Commandments address sexual immorality ("Thou shalt not commit adultery") and say nothing of sorcery.

So Christians are free to light their own fires on the Sabbath, eat shellfish, wear cotton-polyester blends, trick in airport or highway rest-stop men's rooms, and practice necromancy.

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