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Hipster alien
Join Date: Dec 2001
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Twenty articles linking Harry Potter and Satanism/Demonology
Link to list of articles (at bottom of page) demonstrating how (witch) J.K. Rowling is leading children away from God and toward Satan. Also some articles criticizing Pokemon and D&D.
We live in the 21st century and people in industrialized countries cannot distinguish between fiction and reality. As Mark Twain once said, "There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce." |
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Is the JREF message board training wheels for people who hope to one day troll other message boards? It is not that hard to get us to believe you. We are not the major leagues or even the minor leagues. We are Pee-Wee baseball. If you love striking out 10-year-olds, then you'll love trolling our board. |
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Chief Cdr Scientist, NWO Cloning Labs
Join Date: Mar 2007
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I always laugh whenever I see christians attacking Lord of the Rings and JRRT, considering how chrisitian JRRT himself was, and how many christian themes he wrapped into the books.
I think some of those other links are quite amusing, too. Apparently Caspar the Friendly Ghost is owned by Satan... Cheers, TGHO |
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I think they would grab onto anything that is popular and sell books about how it is leading your kids to worship the evil dark lord. Just about anything could be construed as Not Godly.
He-Man is the work of the Devil. Which ruins my whole religious philosophy of asking "What would He-Man Do?". |
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OD’ing on Damitol
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Walk in an ever expanding Archimedean spiral and you’ll find me eventually
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Personally, I was turned toward Satanism by reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
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I collect people like you in little formaldehyde bottles in my basement. (Not a threat. A hobby.) |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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What are these idiots going to do when the series finishes with Harry sacrificing himself in good Jesus fashion?
Some people never learned to read, did they? |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: May 2007
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Of all the hundreds of popular fantasy out there, Harry Potter gets the most flack. Personally, I think it's because it's gotten kids into reading.
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Chief Cdr Scientist, NWO Cloning Labs
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: the downunderverse
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Wait, Harry Potter isn't Satan?
You mean I've been sacrificing goats to Our Dark Master Lord Harry for nothing. |
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Tinkering with my brain
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Sarcastic Conqueror of Notions
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Why do people blame Satan anyway? It's God who throws you into Hell. He's the bastard here.
Given death would be better than unending agony, which is the ultimate destination for the vast majority of people who ever lived (according to the Bible), then the fact that God exists, and rules as He does is an unmitigated disaster and pox on existence, and tragedy the order of which beggars description. Surely the most pious of the religious must admit to this! As John Lenon said, "Imagine no heaven. No Hell below us. Above us, only sky." Surely even the most religious would admit that would be a better state for everyone than for the terrorist Yahweh to actually exist! |
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"Great innovations should not be forced [by way of] slender majorities." - Thomas Jefferson The government should nationalize it! Socialized, single-payer video game development and sales now! More, cheaper, better games, right? Right? |
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Insurance Underwriter of Doom
Join Date: Nov 2006
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You know that Pokemon is doubly evil, as it not only teaches children occultism, but also the evils of evolution!
Fear the Pokemen! They will destroy our world! |
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"If you drink virus water ,i must say ‘don't drink it,it is trap’." -Emre_1974tr Ex-defendant in Simpson v. Randi, et al. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Dithering between book choices in a shop somewhere.
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They already have - and we are the damned living in the new world populated by Digimon!
(Sigh, yes, I have a pre-teen.) |
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'Lord Emsworth, that amiable but bone-headed peer, stood at the window drooping like a wet sock.' -PG Wodehouse, The Crime Wave at Blandings |
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Ardent Formulist
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To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. Woo's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by aliens. |
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Unindicted Co-conspirator
Join Date: Jun 2006
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To forgive is human, to condemn for eternity is divine. -- AudioFreak Truth is where evidence comes from, not where belief leads to. --yy2bggggs Expelled exposed! Sylvia Browne |
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Chief Cdr Scientist, NWO Cloning Labs
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Muse
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: West of Superstition
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I got into this in another forum with a character I came to think of as my very own pet Calvinist. He genuinely believed that damnation for the overwhelming majority of humans who have ever lived was a fair price for his own existence. His argument was, "But this is the way God set it up. Would you rather nobody got to live and go to Heaven?" And when I said yes -- that I would gladly relinquish existence, relinquish ever having had existed, in exchange for the assurance that no thinking being would be consigned to eternal torment -- he couldn't understand what I was saying.
I did manage to back him into a corner, somewhat, on the "free will" argument. At first he argued that there was no such thing as human free will -- that everything we do and think was dictated by God at the beginning of the universe. So no human being could choose to turn to God unless God had dictated that he so turn (and yet that failure to turn to God merited infinite punishment). The problem is that there are huge numbers of people who think that they're "saved", that they're among the "elect", who -- in my interlocutor's belief -- are damned. That's where I felt the mousetrap in my mind snap shut. Okay ... so they think they're saved, but that thought did not arise by their free will, because that's a trait they don't have. God made them believe they're saved when they weren't. God made them think they would be in Heaven with him. So ... you're saying God is a liar, then? At this point, my interlocutor dropped out of the discussion for a couple of days, long enough for the thread to be bumped off the forum queue, and then showed up saying that he didn't know what degree of free will human beings had (except that he was still certain they did not have the capacity to turn to God unless God had chosen them to). I'm still hoping for a chance to try and pin him down on whether God has free will or not. |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Dec 2002
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The Christians have a point. I don't necessarily believe Rowling is purposefully leading children to witchcraft and satanism, but that will nevertheless be the result of her writings. Nobody stood up and protested Dr Seuss, and now we have a world full of people who dress their cats up in ridiculous f
king costumes. It has to stop somewhere.
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Jesus ... wasn't he the bloke who turned fish into wine and made the lepers multiply? -KateHL Violence is more acceptable than incest. I have been told to keep this in mind. |
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I've found more. Voltron is Satan! So are Transformers, Thundercats, Rock music and just about every other fun thing. Apparently, it is all from a book. |
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Insurance Underwriter of Doom
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"If you drink virus water ,i must say ‘don't drink it,it is trap’." -Emre_1974tr Ex-defendant in Simpson v. Randi, et al. |
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Orthogonal Vector
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Sufficiently advanced Woo is indistinguishable from Parody "There shall be no *poofing* in science" Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Force ***** on reasons back" Ben Franklin |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Oooh, that's an evil thing to do. Challenge the notion of the "gift of life."
Is it really the case that living is better than not living at all? This is the epitome to me as apples and oranges. Actually, it's not even close to being apples and oranges. It's more like apples and moonrocks. They are incomparable (more or less the comparison is undefined). But as you note, religious people can't comprehend the idea that life is not necessarily a "gift." Would it really be worse had you never been born? You wouldn't be around to even miss it in the first place, so how is that worse? |
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"Baseball is a philosophy. The primordial ooze that once ruled our world has been captured in perpetual motion. Baseball is the moment. Its ever changing patterns are hypnotizing yet invigorating. Baseball is an art form. Classic and at the same time...progressive. Baseball is pre-historic and post-modern. Baseball is here to stay." (Stolen from the side of a lava lamp box, and modified slightly) |
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Smelling fishy
Join Date: May 2004
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Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow. "...untrustworthy obnoxious twerp." - CFLarsen |
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Hipster alien
Join Date: Dec 2001
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Oh yeah? Well, if that were true, Mr. JonnyFive, then the Bible Game for XBox and PlayStation 2 would be boring. Oh, wait a minute - it is boring. Um, nevermind. |
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Is the JREF message board training wheels for people who hope to one day troll other message boards? It is not that hard to get us to believe you. We are not the major leagues or even the minor leagues. We are Pee-Wee baseball. If you love striking out 10-year-olds, then you'll love trolling our board. |
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"If you drink virus water ,i must say ‘don't drink it,it is trap’." -Emre_1974tr Ex-defendant in Simpson v. Randi, et al. |
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