Re: Opinion Please...On Harry Potter

Hi Sharon,
I'm not as opposed to 'fantasy' stuff as many Christian folks I know, as I do allow my daughter some fairy tales and such. I have come under criticism for it from a number of people, and yet as I myself grew up with fairy tales of castles and princesess, I see no harm in allowing these for my own child. However there is a point at which I draw a line, and Harry Potter is one of those such very thick lines.

A while back my friend and I went to visit her sister and shortly after I arrived her husband put on a Harry Potter tape. As the movie played on, my friend and I started to really get the creeps and we left way before the movie was over.

To be honest with you, it is absolutely beyond me how anyone who is truly spiritually aware can sit in front of this stuff and not discern the evil that lurks behind these movies. In the case of the couple we were visiting, the husband was a co-pastor and excellent man of God a few yers ago. Then something mysterious happened and they fell out of fellowship with the church they were in and haven't joined another church in a couple of years. Only God kows if this lack of discerment is a direct result of whatever else is going on in their lives, but one thing is for sure, we are in the last days and it's never surprising to see deception doing it's rampant work in the lives of God's followers.

We can rationalize anything and convince ourselves of the innocence of anything, after all, did God really say???? But even if many would say the root source is all te same, IMHO simple tales of fantasy differ quite a bit from outright forays into the occult. I have noticed in myself that when I make an excemption to allow myself something that is spiritually questionable, it isn't too long before I begin to make allowances for more and more of what in the past I have considered unthinkable. It's as if a desensitizing effect takes over and draws me further into deception. At that point I have to take hold of myself firmly, repent and start all over again.

Staying on course seems to be harder and harder these days, why even our churches have begun on a course of compromise and ultimate deception, so more than ever we need to stay spiritually awake, lest we fall away without even realizing it. Some will say this is living in fear. I say they can say whatever they want, it's my walk.

As Biblical Christians, we are told that there are things that are not even fit for us to talk about, and we must flee even the appearance of evil. In light of the Word, there are countless scriptures that will shed the light of truth into the works of darkness. Why would we want to step over the line into the enemy's camp into something that is so far removed from the Lord's Kingdom? And furthermore, why would we make it O.K. for doors into the demonic be opened up for our children of any age? Why would we want to delve into with the demonic???

Anyway dear sister, you asked for opinions and it just so happens this is one subject over which I have a strong opinions, and when I get opinionated -- watch out!!!! LOL