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Saturday, July 28, 2007

Truth or Consequences

Well, I've resisted the urge to post about Harry Potter, because I have friends that sit on both sides of the "issue" whether or not HP is "good" or "bad" for you. Some contend that it's fantasy like C.S. Lewis, other contend that stories like Harry Potter open the door to the occult.

In a recent article that I read, a Barnes & Noble bookstore held a "Divination Party" to herald the latest Harry Potter book's arrival.


The "Midnight Magic Costume Party" was held last weekend at a Barnes & Noble outlet in Augusta, Maine. CCL spokesman Mike Hein says the event included fortune-telling using a brand of occult tarot cards called "Gypsy Witch." He also says that the event was held in the "Children's Department" with several hundred children in attendance.

According to Hein, store employees also used the book Cards of your Destiny, a book that shows how to use birthdays to tell fortunes, for the pre-teens and teens who waited in line for an opportunity to experience what the store literally labeled as "divination" by having their tarot fortunes read.

It's unfortunate that adults are helping to blur the already gray lines that our kids are seeing between what is good and what is evil.

Some say that kids aren't affected by this. I don't agree. Whenever kids go to see a martial arts movie, they come out kicking and chopping each other with a "Hiyaah!". Likewise, I know kids that have been to these movies and come back home, only to make "wands" out of sticks to use with their "spells" while they are playing.

Couple this with "real witchcraft" that the stores are pushing and a once make-believe story becomes plausible possibility for a child. I personally know because I was one of those kids., but that's a story for another time.

God has made it abundantly clear in Deuteronomy 18:9-11 that we are to have nothing to do with dark arts.

9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Anyway, my point is to get people thinking and to square that thinking up with what the Word of God says, because, if you don't stand for the Truth, you'll eventually pay the consequences.

Because Truth matters,
George

Posted by George Romano at 4:08 PM

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Diana said...

The consequences will lie in the future of the children we are raising. If they given options that are unhealthy in the food department we are to blame in not showing them the proper way to eat. Wouldn't the same be true for morality and spirituality? If you don't feed the real and whole truth to our children, whose fault is it when the younger generations are led the wrong way. For the answer we have to look in the mirror as parents.

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