Christians Burn Harry Potter And Porn In Offering To God
“IT is allowed for Harry Potter to be taught in our schools, but not the Bible,” says International House of Prayer pastor James Crawford during the Shreveport Regional Unity of Faith Revival.
Pastors from “several denominations and races” ripped pages from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and pages from a pornographic magazine, tossed them into a pit and set fire the lot on fire.
“As I tore the pages, I felt a generational curse of immorality and perversion breaking off my family,” says one Adriane Banks. “I felt it.”
“We need healing. We’ve got pornography, abortion, murder, violence on the rise in Shreveport,” Crawford went on. “The focus is making sure we can do everything we can for our city as ministers.”
“I am not a doom and gloom preacher, I am a truth seeker. But we are at the threshold of dark days,” Crawford told the congregation.
John Valdez, of Bossier City Four Square Church hears the call: “We have a supernatural enemy, and we need to be unified to fight. … We have the same mission.”
Burn Harry Potter by all means, but isn’t a burnt offering “one that is consumed by fire, and regarded as ascending to God while being consumed”?
If so, it might be best to toss a fig leaf into the fiery pit…
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April 23rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I wonder what J.k rowling thinks about this ive never seen porn in a harry potter book ,what next elmo red is the color of satin must be put in fire
September 25th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
BURN EVERY COPY OF EVERY HARRY POTTER BOOK! PUT THE HARRY POTTER’S ASHES AND SCATTER THEM TO THE SEA!
June 15th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Do we have to keep hearing about what these crazies do? I bet they hear voices too!
June 13th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
As a Christian, a Conservative and a Republican (in that order) I can honestly say that I disapprove of the burning of books. I love the Harry Potter series of JK Rowling and I have never once read anything offensive or questionable to my faith in ANY of them.
Get a grip people, the real enemies of Christianity are out there and you want to waste time on burning books? Act like real Christians and not like Nazi SS men!
June 13th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I just talked to God this morning and He dosen’t like religious fundamentalism either. God has always been a friend of mine and, to me at least, He really dosen’t have anything to do with “religion” per se. It’s the Absolute Moralists of ANY so called “faith” that take a basically good idea and screw it up. God says not to hate anybody…..Just forgive their stupidity and ignorance and move on, people……..
June 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I don’t beleive that any religion, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Wicca, and even atheism (sorry if I missed some) cause wars etc.
It is people that carry out the attrocities in the name of their reigion.
All religions are based on tolerance and forgiveness, but extremists interpret them in a way that justifies their actions (well to themselves anyway).
These biggoted intolerent people would find some excuse to act the way they do even if they weren’t religious.
M and A
Thats the whole point Nosey, they aren’t religious, they are just posturing as religious.. The genuine leaders of all faiths should condemn their actions very clearly, tolerance has allowed them a toe hold.
But peoples faith/belief is a very personal thing as deeply rooted in some as who they love, and nothing can sway that. But they don’t go around killing in the name of that faith, or burning books.
I haven’t read any HP books, but I know a lot of people who have, some enjoy them, some don’t BUT JK Rowling has made a generation who weren’t reading anything , read, and created a love of reading and books
June 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Think so, Dairy!
But a lot of Christians just don’t want to be associated with Christian fundie movements, who will probably do more damage to Christianity than any other hard core group, hence the lengthy protests
June 13th, 2008 at 10:40 am
…is this a competition to see who can write the longest post….?
June 13th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Josh, I completely agree with you. These so-called Christians have either not read the Harry Potter series and condemn something they don’t know anything about, or they have read the books and are too dim-witted to understand them.
I am an English teacher and a Christian. I have read the Bible and, like you, I have read all seven Potter books multiple times in English, once in German, and I am now reading them in French (It’s a great way to brush up on foreign languages.)
If these self-righteous religious fanatics ever made the effort to read these books, they would find out that the theme is not witchcraft and wizardry, but love, friendship, courage, family, integrity, and self-sacrifice. Witchcraft and wizardry are simply tools in Harry’s world, like electricity and technology are in ours. They would also discover that the heroes of the story follow very much the teachings of Jesus.
Then again, one has to be intellectually challenged to behave like these “Christians” in the first place, so it is quite possible that they read the books and simply do not comprehend them. In that case I feel very sorry for them, because they are not only missing out on great literature, but they must be constantly struggling to comprehend the world around them.
They want to ban fiction. What do they think the Bible is? A document faxed to us by God? Do they think Jesus left notes to be used seventy years after his death to begin writing the New Testament? The Bible is loaded with guesswork, the personal interpretations of its writers, their angles, perspectives, motivations and agendas; it is oozing metaphors and similes that people of that time and culture were perfectly able to understand, but are very difficult for us, because most of us are not very familiar with the social and cultural context of the first century C.E. Yet these religious brain amputees are convinced that they, and only they, have all the right answers.
I believe in God! I trust in God! I often ask myself, “What would Jesus do?” and try my best to follow his teachings. Somehow I think I know what Jesus would NOT do. He would not behave like these evil “Christians”.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I agree these people are ignorant and have way to much zeal. You can’t generalize all Christians. How would you like me to generalize you and put you in a box. Most Christians are not like this. They do a lot more good then harm. Just because some ignorant fools make it on the news gives you the right to judge the whole lot! The big bang theory was disproved. Watch a video called Creation Science 123 and a new movie call Expelled. (We can’t all be crazy)Trailers on God Tube. It will change your perspective. I own all of the Harry Potter Movies and Enjoy them very much. So my friend are you going to put me in a box too. Call me a Christian lover too? Most Christians believe in a loving God and right and wrong. If we didn’t have the founding fathers and their faith.Where would our society be with no moral fiber? They ran from England and all it’s religious wars too. People claiming they have Gods favor and manipulation of the population. THEY USED GOD TO SUIT THEIR NEEDS! Wrong! I believe in a personal relationship with God not Religion. Religion is man made .
June 13th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Ok I am a christian and I love Harry Potter. I cannot understand why anyone in the world would burn these books. People fear what they do not know or understand but if they took a moment to read these books, they would realize that there is nothing to fear. These books are based on the power of love, overcoming hardships, and the meaning of friendship. The whole magic/ wizard aspect is just for entertainment, but it is not the message. Anyone who read this book would see this. People are so ignorant. I am disgusted with these Christians they give the rest of us a bad name. All they were really doing was bring “glory” to themselves not God.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:01 am
And Christians wonder why people are turned off by religion. Why stop at Harry Potter? Lets burn the Libraries down, because the Bible isn’t taught there. And how about The Lord of the Rings? And all the Narnia books, because that Cupboard was the devil! We don’t want imagination and fiction anymore!! Noo. We want to go back to the OLD Testements because if you are actually a Christian - Jesus was about love and acceptance of everyone. Not a book burning sadist. He was the greatest Jewish hippy.
This reminds me of the Nazis, oh wait - they claimed to be Christian too.
And why isn’t Christianity taught in PUBLIC schools? Because this is religious freedom, what our whole country was based on. Gold, God and Glory! And guess what, Jesus loved people from other religions too! Which is why he had the following and these wanna be Christians never will.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Yes Harry Potter is soooo evil. It is something that gets your children into reading and even preaches about the power of love. Yes we must not let our read that sort of thing.
And porn…how is it evil exactly? I mean I know a lot of you Christians think sex is the work of the devil, but think about it…without it where would you be?
June 13th, 2008 at 3:16 am
I love Harry Potter and I am a Christian. I have had many discussions with other believers about the evils of HP and its witchcraft teachings. But I can’t figure out why HP is evil when Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia are held up as acceptable when they have witches and magic in them. If witches and magic are from satan, then it stands to reason that Lord of the Rings and Chonicles of Narnia are too!! You can’t accept one and not the other-if you do its called hipocracy!
Second burnt offerings are sin offerings not burned books! A burnt offering is a sacrificed animal that takes our place- how do books fall into that category?
June 13th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Speaking of reading, why don’t you try reading your Bible and maybe you will fill your head with something that will benefit you instead of cloud your mind. Christ died for our sins so that we can all be forgiven. These Christians are not judging, they are standing up for what they believe - THE TRUTH! Hey Denise, speaking of “casting the first stone”, who voted in the murders that started 9/11 in the first place, were they Christians too? I think the point that this church is trying to make is that if we are to consider all races and religion in equality, why is is that the schools are condemning Christianity, while allowing all these other religions/cults/fictitious literature into our schools - when The Bible itself is a history book? The Bible is an interesting read if you give it a chance, it challenges you to use your mind and actually read about something uplifting instead of dragons and monsters and sex and violence.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:35 am
So I am from Shreveport and am a Catholic, and to make things clear most of shreveport is normal and Chatolics are a hell of alot more liberal than alot of the other Christian religions. Also I have no clue why Catholics got brought up because it is clearly stated that these people were from some random ass churches that 99.9% of us have never heard of. But yes we have all read HP and most of us loved it, it has no evil in it. Also witch craft and wicca are nothing to condem or be afraid of, I tried my best to learn about them and maybe even become a wiccan and to me casting a spell is just like praying, it might work it might not, but you are basicaly asking for something to happen that you cn’t do on your own. And another Also religion is not bad it is a good thing in the end, in fact if people were not going to war for religious beliefs then they would go to war for something even stupider. Also alot of wars have nothig to do with religion. But again Shreveport is a good city Catholisism is good, other religions are good, HP is good, and these people are just wierd and too extreme, but hell who likes extremist, liberal or not. ( also as a liberal for me to say shreveport is good means it is not filled up with too many supper religious right wing morons)
June 13th, 2008 at 2:21 am
oh shut up crawford, you’re not a truth seeker. You are a pathetic world attention seeker.
You picked Harry Potter books to burn?—the books read and admired in the whole wide world? you don’t need to advertise your religion anymore. you are now known and hated around the world! —-forever!!! Using the wide-world popularity of HP to get free advertisement of your religion? it’s obvious isn’t it??—damn your ‘ingenious ‘ greed.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:19 am
God and prayer should always be in our schools. The United States stand on the very words IN GOD WE TRUST.
Why have we gotten away from this?
June 13th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Yes We should take HP OUT of our schools.
We should put GOD the BIBLE and the ten commandments back in our schools where they belong. You would be amazed how grade and behavior would be much better.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:54 am
I’m a Texas gal…Please don’t lump all of us in the same basket.
If being christian means being closed minded sheep that blindly follow every *self proclaimed holy man that claims to drink coffee with Jesus at 10 am in the morning,*I am glad I had enough sense to reject the teaching.
Rev.Hawkins and the FLDS have a house waiting for you.
Ignorance is not bliss,it’s no excuse!!!!
The book burners have wayyyyyy too much time on their hands…dashing about collecting porn and unlike the H.P.books,I’ll bet they looked at all the pictures and read every “perverted “word.Did they get a “swanggggg?”Did they have to pray and repent for all those nasty thoughts? Maybe they should have read H.P. instead.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I’ve been called a Satanist because I read Harry Potter. And you know what my option is to them, screw them. I enjoy those books, I even got my parents to read them. J.K. Rowling has got MORE KIDS TO READ! So you know what people who are closed minded should leave this website because this topic really pisses me off. That book burning video, those people are so into there believes good for them but I don’t believe the same way so quite trying to push it on me.
This is my view on region for you: [b] You have to have faith, having a belief its much trickery to change people die for it.[/b]
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June 12th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
It seems to me, maybe instead of remembering “HE WITH OUT SIN CAST THE FRIST STONE’ Maybe they should remember the witch’s creed “harm no one”
After all the good christian vote gave Bush his right to kill “200.000′ Irqis
June 12th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
People you all need to get real. Harry Potter is a work of fiction. Brooms can’t fly, sticks can’t cast a spell. It was Harry Potter who got my son interested in reading so I say go for it. All Christians need to lighten up and get a life. I’m a Christian but I don’t go around burning books becasue I disagree with them.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
I am also from the South (S.W. Arkansas, 60 miles from Shreveport/Bossier). I am in my thirties and love the Harry Potter bookes and movies. I think what happened is completly deranged! I am a Christian. The Holy Bible says that what God has blessed you with you shouldn’t waist (paraphrased). I put this forth to you, what did they use to get the porn—MONEY! Financial blessings from God! Also the bible says “abstain from ALL appearance of evil! What did the check-out clerks think when they saw preachers and church members BUYING PORN! I sure that left a lasting impression on those people about churches and Christians! I personally think the books are some of the most well written books of the modern age. I am a well read, highly educated man from the south. I love reading the series, and then starting over again. I have done this about ten times so far. I can tell all those “potter-haters” that if you think there is anything “evil” or “satanic” in the Harry Potter series, I challenge you to read them. (Learn to read first). If after that you still think in the narrow minded, blind, dogmatic way you once did about the Potter stories, perhaps you should consider moving off the planet Earth. It always seems that that people who know the least about something are the ones that want to scream the loudest about it.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
It’s hard to believe there are really people in the world who are stupid enough to burn probably the best books ever written. Yeah J.K. is sooooooooo evil right, I mean she only just wrote an 800 page book and auctioned it off for $50000 that went to CHARITY!!!! She’s a far better person then that stupid priest will ever be and burning books is so incredibly pointless that why even waste everyone’s life doing something like that?! I really think that the whole grudge a lot of immature, religious morons have against Harry Potter is ridiculous. If you put the cover of a bible on a Harry Potter book, and told someone to pray on it, they would still tell you “the answers are in the bible”. Oh really??? I’m only 13 but I’m pretty much an atheist. My Dad grew up Catholic and finds the whole thing stupid now. He teaches me about the conflict and beliefs of Christians and Catholics. I’m not saying that religion is bad, so before you leave me a really mean comment saying how wrong I am take this into consideration: I WILL NOT listen to you no matter what you say, and I am not a full atheist. I sort of believe in God, it’s just harder for me now that I’m old enough and mature enough to understand all the horrible things religion has done. Wow, I got really off topic. And just to point out, our own HUMAN HISTORY has had people just as evil as Voldemort and witches and wizards play the HEROS in that series, so I guess we should burn humans then. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with hp and he has so much sorrow in his life and so much pain, yet he fights for good. How is that the least bit evil??? And one last thing: HARRY POTTER AND J.K. ROWLING ARE CHRISTIAN!!! Why would you burn a fellow Christian. That makes NO sense at all. And if that stupid book burning moron reads this, then here’s a little message for him : “YOU ARE THE BIGGEST LOSER ON THE PLANET!!! WHY WOULD YOU WASTE YOUR TIME BURNING GREAT BOOKS, WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE DYING OUT THERE??? AND YOU COULD (instead of burning them) GIVE THEM TO KIDS WHO DON’T HAVE BOOKS AT ALL. IF YOU ASK A YOUNG CHILD WHO LOVES HARRY POTTER IF HE OR OTHER WITCHES AND WIZARDS ARE BAD, THEY WILL SAY NO!!!”
ok I’m good.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I am a Christian. I read my first HP book as part of a Child Lit class at a Christian University in TX!!!!!! We not only discussed the plot but we also picked out the Christian influences in HP. As this was an education course, we also planned lesson plans for elementary and middle school students. Not all Christians believe HP in evil, most Christians can see the Christian themes.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
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Bill Says:
June 12th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Sorry Molly. I was raised Catholic…….it’s a wonder I can think at all!
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I think you are being a little optimistic in trying to present the logical deficiencies of your arguments as the fault of a religious upbringing.
After all, Isaac Newton managed to overcome that handicap…
As for ‘flat-earther’ as an all purpose term of abuse; it’s an embarassing demonstration of historical ignorance.
The belief that medieval scholars believed the earth was flat is a 19th century myth which you are busily recycling…
June 12th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I don’t understand people like this? I get taught the bloody Bible at school? also..
the Bible is evil it teaches people to descriminate! especially towards homosexuals which particuly angers me!
Another thing. reading the Bible aka the book of other peoples opinions.. you are just believing other peoples opinions. surely literature meaning. harry potter, encourages imagination and making your own opinions and dicisions.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I’ve got news for these poor people. The HP books are not evil, as was stated several times they do have evil (or bad) characters. But so does just about every TV show, Book, come to think about it even our own history. Oh, by the way I’m from S.C. born and raised here. I served in the US Navy for 5 yrs. so that these Idiots can burn books, doesn’t mean I agree with them. If our childern grow to love reading because of Harry Potter, all the better. I’ve read all 7 books, loved every one. Yes they do teach values to people, no matter what their ages are. How many of you readers understand what this means? A.F.M.. And no it is not something evil or bad. Give up? Ancient and Free Mason. You have to believe in God to be one. I’ll not get into a word match with people about Masons. But we are all over the world. Several Presidents have been my Brothers.
Brother Len S. A.F.M. S.C.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Sorry Molly. I was raised Catholic…….it’s a wonder I can think at all!
June 12th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I get pretty riled up whenever I hear about book burning incidents, but in this case, Lizzie, in post #23, kindly included the video link of the actual book burning and it’s actually fairly amusing, because there were only about 10 people in the room for this momentous occasion. I’m sure there has now been more press and comment about this event than was really warrented, as much as I agree with most of the previous comments. I, too, love the HP books.