But I have a question for you about your blog... when you talked about Harry Potter. I don't understand your argument that it's ok to read Harry Potter books because it's not "real witchcraft or real spells. It's all made up and nearly all children grasp this." If the bible tells us that witchcraft and sorcery are sins, why would those things be ok in pretend form as entertainment? (Even though Harry Potter is using his powers for good.) It seems to me like that would be the same as saying that it's ok for kids to read books with sex scenes or bad language in them... because it's not real sex or real kids using bad language.
Great question. Let me clarify the distinction I'm making. It's not that Harry Potter is fictional but that the magic portrayed is fictional.
Sex, violence, drugs, etc. are all real and their use in a fictional setting can have a negative influence on young readers. That would be a fictional story is portraying real things.
But the magic in Harry Potter is a fictional story portraying unreal things, things of fantasy. The "sorcery" found in Harry Potter is not real sorcery; but just the silly imaginings of an author. If Harry Potter was a story about kids learning true things about the occult, filled with demonic activity and antipathy toward Christ, and set in the our real world, this would be another issue entirely.
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So you would have no problem with the Harry Potter series being in the church library next to Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings?
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