I love Betty Bower too – she’s hilarious!

Ya gotta love delusionals. My hat is off to you for having the patience to respond civilly to such a moron.

And I love Landover Baptist. I have a “Jesus is watching you touch yourself” T-shirt. And Betty Bowers – world’s best christian is great.

Hi Benny. I am worried that you may have been lied to by the leaders of your church and I advise you to look closely at them. Any person who can make a comment like: “Have fun burning in hell” to a fellow human being is surely more likely to be the one doing Satan’s work. Personally, I wish only good things for humanity.

As an example, my ability to maintain this website makes it clear that I am neither mentally challenged nor an ignoramus. Your church has led to make such clearly incorrect deductions because of the way they appear to have indoctrinated you. I see further evidence of indoctrination in the assumption that any opinion that is different from your own is retarded. Only those who are scared that their own perspective will be shown up as being wrong insist on such blind adherence to their point of view and refuse to listen to others.

If the beliefs you have been taught are strong and true, exposure to different beliefs will only show that. None of us should be scared to read or listen to the opinions of others. The more we know, the better able we are to make good judgments and decisions.

I am reminded that men are capable of deforming any thought to it is deranged agenda.

But it is finally driven home that to really be perverse and truly destroy something it takes a “god-fearing chirstian” with a tiny bit of knowledge.

Please for the sake of your own spirit and the sake of your children, get a hobby. Make wallets. But in the name of all that might be holy, stop pretending to think. Your scaring the dog.

Hi. I’m aware that there is a huge amount of symbolism in the Harry Potter series – recognizing them is one of the things I really enjoy about the books.

I knew Nicholas Flamel was a real person and alchemist before I read the books, that he tried to make a philosopher’s stone, and that there are reports that he succeeded. Personally, I don’t believe there is any such thing as a philosopher’s stone.

There are other things about the books that show it’s all made up, such as stone columns into Hogwarts being topped with winged boars i.e. flying pigs. There’s another such allusion I noticed recently (I’ve juts re-read the books) but I can’t bring it to mind at the moment.

Anyway, as I said above, I think recognizing all the allusions are part of the fun. Kids enjoy them without knowing Latin (which is the language of most of the spells) or Greek myths, or about alchemy etc, and adults enjoy recognizing the patterns. Albus (white) Dumbledore and Rubeus (red) Hagrid are heroes. Malfoy (mal foi – bad faith) is a baddie. Vol de mort = wings of death. You could write books about it all.

I don’t take any of it seriously, and I don’t think anyone else should either. Just enjoy the stories, or not, as the case may be.

I just read your article on the film… I can understand your response to ‘moral panic’ on the Harry Potter series but you may be interested in ge fact that many people have noted the parallels between the message of HP and Rosicrucian thought (even those who are all for that philosophy. You sound like an adult with well formed views so I’ll just leave you the link and let you make your mind up if you agree with the observations and like the message of the books…

http://www.harrypotterforseekers.com/alchemy/alchemy.php

Can you tell if someone is pulling your leg? Nope – as with any irrational bit of baffle gab, without any objective evidence there is no way to check it. the whole thing exists as a figment.

The best I can do is salm the door on ther foot. Or head.