pope finds harry potter satanic.

Harry Potter 'satanic': Pope's exorcist

The Vatican has never been a fan of Harry Potter, but its chief exorcist has gone one step further and condemned J. K. Rowling's fictional boy wizard as downright evil.

"Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil," Father Gabriele Amorth, the Pope's "caster-out of demons", said.

The books contained many positive references to the satanic art, falsely drawing a distinction between black and white magic, he told the Daily Mail in London. Father Amorth also said he was convinced that Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler were possessed by the devil.

Last year the Pope, then Cardinal Ratzinger, described Harry Potter as a potentially corrupting influence. The Vatican's criticism comes as two Australian academics suggest a new generation of spiritual seekers are using popular fiction and medieval myth to add magic and enchantment to their lives. Lynne Hume and Kathleen McPhillips, editors of a new collection of essays on popular spiritualities, said sacred religious texts and scriptures were in many places being superceded by medieval myths, comics and fantasy literature.

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Terry Pratchett's Discworld series had inspired interest in spiritual spin-offs.

Pagans had borrowed from the Discworld series peopled by dwarfs, witches and fairies, while young men had shaped their living fantasies on comic-book heroes and Star Wars narratives.

Role-playing games of the 1990s such as Ravenloft and Dungeons and Dragons spurred interest in acting out fictional characters and events.

The eclectic vampire subculture - bigger in the US and splintering from the '70s Goth movement - borrows more from Anne Rice's broody, immortal and powerful figure of Lestat in the Vampire Chronicles than Bram Stoker's figure of old. The subculture, said Dr Hume, consists of vampire role players but also people who believe they are vampires, blood donors and occult-based and mystically oriented groups

dylan.

😛 I'm not a christian so I'm not commenting....

lol...don't know wat to say!!!
i find harry potter series to be my saviour so.....!

Yes, all of us HP readers are morally corrupt people. You must really forget about starving and homeless people all over the world and start persecuting people who read about a boy who rides a BROOM. Coz thats gonna save us all! 😆

well its their view but we cant laugh.
every human being has a right to say whatever he wishes to n so has pope.
M not a christian n m not defending him m just stating the view.

thnx for sharing 😛

Originally posted by: T.

Yes, all of us HP readers are morally corrupt people. You must really forget about starving and homeless people all over the world and start persecuting people who read about a boy who rides a BROOM. Coz thats gonna save us all! 😆

i am a christian but still i think that u r right.harry potter is a fictional character,i don't find anything satanic in the books.

dylan😆

Originally posted by: T.

Yes, all of us HP readers are morally corrupt people. You must really forget about starving and homeless people all over the world and start persecuting people who read about a boy who rides a BROOM. Coz thats gonna save us all! 😆

lolz...my thoughts exactly!!!😆

lol 😆
It's just so funny!

really don kno wat to say!
but i like it! it's funny! 😆

Originally posted by: lovelyprincesst

well its their view but we cant laugh.
every human being has a right to say whatever he wishes to n so has pope.
M not a christian n m not defending him m just stating the view.

thnx for sharing 😛

Yes, but there is a difference between "freedom of speech" and "not knowing what you're talking about". 😛

The Pope/his assistant makes such comments without reading the books.