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Fears over book are ridiculous

Web posted September 12, 2000

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Editor, The Chronicle

It has come to my attention that the debate about the Harry Potter books has gone to the far right extreme.

I have lived in this community for six years and being a Christian I have seen much in the way of rants and raves in the name of God. If faith is such an important part of each of our lives why do we feel only our faith is the true one?

Where do we as Americans, with a history of religious, political, and published freedoms, get off and damn a book?

I suppose that these same people would be quick to do the same to that great moralist and Christian C.S. Lewis and his group of books about Narnia, which involved magic both good and bad?

Books by themselves are thoughts and ideas, meant to entertain and inform. The Bible in its current form has been edited for content, and structure many times. We still accept the teachings of God and Jesus from these Gospels in their current form. I do not see how a story is going to subjugate the teachings of the fellowship of Christianity.

Morality as a community standard is important; however, believing the Harry Potter books are Satanic in nature and promote evil is the most ridiculous notion I have ever herd.

Robert B. Cameron, North Augusta