Harry Potter is of the Devil - The Thinking Atheist Radio Podcast #42
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And not just Harry Potter. All kinds of earthly influences are apparently tainted by Satan. Role playing games, songs on the radio, television shows, films, books and much more.
If you've ever been forbidden to watch a favorite show, read a beloved paperback or buy music from a favorite band because your religious family and culture featured demonic influence, tell us all about it.
And not just Harry Potter. All kinds of earthly influences are apparently tainted by Satan. Role playing games, songs on the radio, television shows, films, books and much more.
If you've ever been forbidden to watch a favorite show, read a beloved paperback or buy music from a favorite band because your religious family and culture featured demonic influence, tell us all about it.
True story- Several years ago, I was working in a medical office, and I was assisting this young girl, I think she was around 9 years old? She was really curious about where I came from in England, and to give her a frame of reference, I said, "Well, you know the Hogwarts castle in the Harry Potter movies?" She and her mother both stared at me like I was the Devil, and she shook her little head and said, "Those books are wicked, they bring evil spirits into your house!" I was kind of dumbfounded, so I looked at her mother. Her mother explained to me that she was running for the Superintendent of Schools, and if elected, she would have every copy removed from the libraries and destroyed (I never found out if she actually won, by the way).
So, I'm relaying this story to my older sister, who lives in a very liberal part of south Florida. She told me that her next door neighbor is the Headmaster of some private school there, and he recently hosted a- get this- book burning! in his backyard. All of his students were invited over, to throw their Harry Potter books on the barbeque grill! And I'm thinking, THIS is the 21st century??
I am sooo glad that my family allways cherrished knowledge and freedom of choice above anything else. And had enough sense to realize, that modern fairytales like Harry Potter are no more harmfull then Red ridinghood was. Sure my grandparents and aunt were horrified, when they heard that I read the "Satanic Bible" from Anton LaVey, BUT they did not shun me for it, and my uncle and my mother had my back, telling them, that they should leave me seek any kind of knowledge, and that actually befire they judge about this book, they should either listen to what I got out of it, or read it themselves. What these people are doing to there children by declaring any kind of knowledge as evil or harmful is from my point of view child abuse. It poisons the mind of children, hinders them to grow and learn.
And my parents got me a set of HP books on my birthday.
@Lew Rodd Some of the Midwest and most of the Southern parts of the USA (I have lived in both). lol
Book burnings. Always a sign of an advancing culture. 🙄
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
--Isaac Asimov
@Cj - "It is impossible to be an atheist" - Do tell us all your reasons behind that statement.
@Cj huh?.....very possible
When you play anything by Seth Andrews backwards it says "I can't believe I believed this shit for 30 years...satan satan"
clgaram720 😂😂😂
LMAO
He should do that!
As an aspiring author, I wouldn't be offended if somebody burned a few of my books as long as they purchased them first and I made some money off the idiots who were too stupid to realize or care that they were supporting me financially.
Nice 👌 0:45
As an aspiring author, myself, I think I'd be offended if someone somewhere didn't think my material was of the devil. 😁
My stepmother made me get rid of The Chronicles of Narnia books (back in the 80's) because she thought they were releasing demons into the house and giving my toddler aged half-siblings nightmares. Kinda ironic considering C.S. Lewis' position in the Christian world.
buzzardbeatniks I have read all the Narnia books ASIAN is a CHRISTIAN figure,for Hecks sake
...wow......
I'm going to go with, she has no idea who CS Lewis was. 😒
My mom would not have let us read them if it was not for their overt Christian overtones. I just... I feel ya. I really do. Now I am in Ravenclaw
Turd Ferguson I am Hufflepuff.
Ravenclaws!!!
My 75 year old mother, lifelong catholic and lesbian came to me and, in obvious distress, whispered "Michael I think the church has been lying to me". With biblical rage I hate religion and the soulless cretins who perpetuate this ultimate evil. My mother died terrified convinced that she was on her way to infinite suffering. Thank You christians, I wish I could believe in hell because I like to think of you there.
I was beaten silly by my god-fearing father for sneaking out and seeing KISS in concert back in the mid-seventies because they were evil. It was worth it.
KISS ARMY!!
Imagine if someone had told him that KISS means Kill In Satans Service.
Ron Nicola
They burned a Harry Potter book? I'm burning 5 Bibles in retaliation.
+nathan bill Nice!!!!!!!!!!
+Defaultdan97 Id like all the bibles to be burned everywhere. I fucking hate that book of fictional bullshit
+nathan bill all offering to God seem to be in the burnt sytle of offering
+Defaultdan97 Bad idea... if we#ve got the book of blood and blunders we can point out where, how and why they are messed up in their thinking.... If they have to return to poisoning kid's minds by word of mouth we'll no longer have any way to intervene with logic, as it will even more turn into "what i feel in my heart to be god's truth".
Instead schools should have from first grade on a comparative religion class showing how all of these superstitions teach bad morals and incredible stupidity, how none of them is any way better than the rest and how it came into this situation through millenia of manipulation, lies and blatant grabs for power by the "holy" people. And it should be a mandatory if you fail you cannot pass the year course and the personnnel teaching it needs to have passed it too before being able to enter a classroom.
Everybody is entitled to their own beliefs, but schools are mandated to teach the truth, be neutral to all religions and worldviews and not to bow down into indoctrinating the kids into any one of the many competing sects of this world.
Book burning isn't OK. Even if it is the Bible. The Bible can be respected as mythology and literature. I would rather burn the ignoramuses who burn books than burn books. I would have killed millions without hesitation if that's what it would have taken to save the Great Library of Alexandria.
I guess you could say I value knowledge and culture more than I value human life.
I remember an interview with Ozzy Osbourne back in the 80's where he said that the best thing that ever happened to him was preachers talking about him because it caused his album sales to skyrocket.
I remember that..
"I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do. Anything he does on television, I will watch."
-Daniel Radcliffe
This episode is a perfect example of how religion teaches you what to think, not how to think.
Care Bears, Master Splinter, Pikachu, D & D... all of the Devil, folks! Burn them! Burn them all!
If they burn my pokemon I'll just give them a potion and take them to the pokemon center.
Care Bears? First time I've heard that one lol.
Harmless things are always the devil because they lacked the courage and ability to deal with things that could actually do them harm .
And because it was fun 😒
Of course Harry Potter is of the devil. JK Rowling's novels got kids reading, and that means kids will become literate and realize the Bible is a story, nothing more.
Concerning D&D, I've been playing for 20+ years. When I was 14, my buddy's mom (who is very religious but a wonderful lady) walked into the kitchen where we were playing and sprinkled us with holy water. It didn't burn.
Harry Potter is symbolic and biblical. J.K. Rowling is a christian herself.
Dumbledore represents God. He is wisdom, - an old guy with a long beard- and courage. And at some moment, it's not really clear if Dumbledore is really the good guy, since stories about his past are shared.
Harry is hurt, but he still follows Dumbledore's path and let's Dumbledore guide him in his life.
Dumbledore knows Harry needs to die, so that evil can be destroyed forever. He also dies himself for this.
Harry Potter represents Jesus. He died so that evil got destroyed and came back from the death, (Since only the 'bad' part in his body died, together with Voldemort, but that's too long to explain.)
Also, he follows Dumbledore, no matter if he might be wrong or he has no clue what's going to happen.
Peter Pettigrew represents Judas. He used to be friends with James and Lily, but betrayed them and later on, betrayed the rest as well. He keeps betraying everyone, the bad guys and the good guys.
Voldermort represents the devil/evil in all sorts. He has a lot of bad followers, that are all very sad or hurt in their lifes and therefore, want to take revenge on the happy people.
He loves to hurt and scare people and can't stand people loving each other. Since he was never loved and his soul is only 0/8th of what it used to be.
On the other hand, Harry Potter contains scary moments, which christians might not like. Voldermort, the face of pure evil, kills an innocent unicorn.
A doppelgänger who is part of Voldermorts crew, trying to invade the school, is undercover as a teacher and trying to teach black magic to the kids. He tortures a spider and eventually kills it, in front of one of the kids who's parents died at the hands of Voldermort. This is sadistic and they eventually find out that he's the bad guy, so they put him in prison.
There áre mermaids and ghosts (nice ones) and certain spells, but they are fighting to prevent evil things from happening even if they have to die for it. They are basically telling the bible story, with magic.
Harry Potter is not biblical and it is of the devil it represents Satan J.K Rowling is not a born again christian left behind is better story then harry potter
Widdekuu91 What’s ironic is that J K Rolling was a presbyterian and she wrote a book about a magical boy who goes to a magical school
ara bezjian Actually Harry Potter did a heroic sacrifice to save his friends from Lord Voldemort and was brought back to life. That’s very Christ like isn’t it?
you should have pretended the holy water burnt just to wind her up
I'd actually be impressed if kids were checking the Necronomicon out of their local library, considering it's a *fictional* book, mentioned within the works of H.P. Lovecraft. It's mentioned in the stories, but the book itself was never actually written.
If you're checking out The Necronomicon from the library this is what you're getting:
www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925
Someone actually published a Necronomicon book quite some time ago. They took all of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos material and threw in a bunch of Sumerian and Babylonian mythology to fill out the page count.
Lol I'm sure the fumes from the burning of the records did more damage than the backwards messages.
Lol completely forgot about that
I’m just this week reading and watching Harry Potter for the first time. In high school I was the only kid who was absent from class during English when Harry Potter was read. We thought I was a real crusader for Jesus. Now I’m pissed because im getting started on the 20th anniversary edition of Harry Potter and most TH-cam videos have told me what happens to Dumbledore and how Voldemort gets killed. I’m pissed that I missed the show. Well my husband has the first printing of all the books and gave them to me and I am getting back what I was denied for 20 years.
Every time I buy a pokemon game, I mutter the words "suck it, fundies".
Amen
When I was a kid my parents went as far as to not let me eat lucky charms. And not because of the sugar content. No, I could eat sugary cereal, but lucky charms was off limits because of the "charms" and "charms" were not biblical and thus pagan witchcraft not of God and therefore lucky charms cereal was full of evil spirits. Kinda like the toy that comes in the box!
Ikr, some of my friend's parents were so strict about religion when we were little that they were never even allowed to watch disnet movies, because they "were involving magic and witchcraft". They couldn't even wear charm bracelets because they were apparently pagan and evil. Funny how almost all of those friends are now drug addicts, and dropping out of high school while the parents who never forced religion on their kids ended up raising them to be the real christians.
That's fucking ridiculous....
@@victoriarose2428 yeah not me per say but a girl I dated back in hs who had similar parents most of the time it was us doing the things her parents forbid and her just venting
I wonder what would happen if you played christian music backwards
It'll sound better.
How funny would it be if there was an actual satanic messige.
You'll hear Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
Christian rock band Petra actually put a backmasked message in one of their songs just for a laugh: th-cam.com/video/4MFFgbKwGhQ/w-d-xo.html
It will reveal the truth that the God of the Bible is actually Evil but not Good !
Christianity: Pushing people into the closet about pretty much everything
My grandmother practically raised me. When I was very small she told me stories of fairies and elfs and gnomes and dwarves who live in mud houses and toad stools - the kind of stories you tell little girls who play in the garden. One day she gave me this incredible book - How to Find Flower Fairies. It was a hand drawn pop up book with enormous scenes of forests and gardens and ponds with fairies hiding behind large leaves and secret doors. My imagination went wild. I loved and cherished that book.
I lived with my mother at the time, and she got ahold of some or other DVD that told her anything magical or fantastical was evil. So, gone was her beautiful iron and crystal dragon statues, gone were most of my movies and games, gone were my sisters yugio cards, and gone was my fairy book. It laid in a large plastic bin on a piece of land, in the wind and sun and rain, for weeks until the dump truck could get it... The thought of it still makes me sick...
On the bright side, I hid away some other fairy books that my grandmother gave me. Theyre nothing like the book I lost, but I still cherish them. They're a happy reminder of the woman who taught me to be curious and who nurtured my imagination despite my mother.
@Whiterun Guard I was like 10 and the place we dumped everything was on the other side of town.
Plus, I believed my mom. I was a kid. I had no reason NOT to think my pretty book would attract demons.
@NWO Official 666 Thanks. I'm actually more of an artist than an author myself. Maybe a picture book would do, someday. It's a good idea :)
@NWO Official 666 I'm... Not going to do it now... because I'm working on a different book - also fantasy, also has fairies, but not a kids book.
I appreciate the motivation, but I'll do it in my own time
Oh man, this hits so close to home that it's a bullseye. Harry Potter, Pokémon, rock music, hip hop, even pop music!, anime, movies, American cartoons, graphic t-shirts, skirts above the knee, open shoulders, money, riches, and just about everything not having to do with church or god was satanic. If I wanted to learn to play an instrument if it wasn't to eventually play it in church then it was satanic! Hell, when Pokémon go! came out we had a preacher who, on stage, went out and said that every Pokémon you catch is a demon you let into your heart. I had to read the Harry Potter books in secret or my mom would have burned them even if they were library books.
Loved Harry Potter, loved tormenting my grandma with reading it and watching the movies. I often went to her house with a wizards hat and robe... I think my mom loved freaking her out too.
My mother keeps trying to convince me that the video games i play are evil and off the Devil .... i am 23 years old.
Try persona 5
I remember all this from the 80s. Funny how the first time I heard the name “Pol Pot” and the atrocities he was committing, was from a punk rock song by “The Dead Kennedys” called “Holiday in Cambodia”.
Religion always overlooks the truly important issues, in favor of nonsense that will scare their flock into giving them money.
Your laugh is so funny :) You really seem to enjoy recording this stuff haha
Love your podcasts!
This podcast reminded me of when I was growing up as a Baptist. Harry Potter was being read in my seventh grade Reading class and parents in the county were up in arms over its occult influence being required reading in a class. My own mother, a devout Baptist, just rolled her eyes and said if people couldn't tell a good book from evil, that was their issue. Well, it was also our church's, it turned out. A copy of HP: Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone was donated to the Church Rummage Sale. We ended up buying it, because one of the organizers was going to take it out in the parking lot to burn it, so it couldn't lure children into the occult.
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." - Heinrich Heine
I'm so glad all the crazies jumped on boats and left us here in Euroland.
Michael S. Thomas
Please take them back.
Even tho I am an atheist today, I still cant be bothered by how easily and willing I and everyone around me accepted these myths/urbanlegends/church lies without even questioning it.
I had a Muslim girl tell me that my motorcycle is evil because it sounds like a demons laugh.
Ha ha!! Crazy!!
when my sister an I were children, our mom confiscated one of our books I loved, it was a really heartwarming story of how Santa and his wife when they were young adopted two Krampus. in the story these characters weren't evil at all, they were just like very lively children, only they constantly smelled of smoke. 😆😆😆 But my mom said they were devils, so it's bad for us to read about them. this was in Hungary in the 90s.
after my mom passed away, our little brother was really into Harry Potter and our father took the book from him because our aunt convinced him it was teaching witchcraft. Luckily they never burned books, so we found them later. 😆😆
Father Ted is hands down the funniest comedy Ireland has ever produced.
If sorcery was a course offered in high school when I was in the system, I would have taken that class in a heartbeat
The poor guy had to experience his own mother grabbing his pocket monster. Hopefully she's still in prison.
When I was little, my paternal Catholic grandmother yelled at me and my cousins for "inviting the devil in" because we pretended that some twigs we found outside were magic wands.
The thing about playing the songs (whatever songs) backwards, I used to freak out about this and actually believed that those musicians were evil devil worshippers! Now I just laugh at my stupid moments as a kid!
Well, at least when the rumours about J.K. Rowling being a witch or that Harry Potter is a book series to lead children astray into satanism or wiccan practice, I laughed at the naivety of the people who bought that shit!
"And you have to tell yourself, 'these people vote!'" You made my day! Also a lifetime gamer and PROUD OF IT. Take care.
Jack Chick is actually still releasing new Chick Tracts even now. Not that his style or understanding of the world has updated since the 70s.
I had no idea who he was until I stumbled across a reference to Chick Tracts on a podcasst. First tract I saw was one telling me why Catholics aren't Christians.
The Bible Reloaded does his chick tracts real often. Some of them are really crazy. Like you just shake your head, & say, "Shouldn't they make him take a drug test before he does these?"
Fortunately Jack Chick is dead, now waiting for Pat Robertson to kick off.
Tara Oh shit help us!!
T Razz Soon I hope
Speaking of the fake $20 bills... I have worked as a server and bartender for quite a while now. One thing I have noticed is that people think if you work a job similar to either of those, that you are "unsaved." I ALWAYS get little bible tracts, sometimes in place of tips. One person left me one of those fake $20's in place of a tip and on the back it said "Disappointed? Jesus will never disappoint you." I immediately showed my coworkers and said "Huh, I think he already has" lol...
Brad Jones reviews a great example of this anti-rock propaganda called "Rock: It's Your Decision". Very funny.
The Cinema Snob - DVD-R Hell: "Rock: It's Your Decision"
I was skimming through the radio stations several years ago, and I stopped to listen to a Christian broadcaster talk about how dangerous the Harry Potter books are. Just before I switched off the radio, the man asked "Why can't our children read something good and wholesome?" I believe he was referring to the Bible when he said that. And, you know what? We should give our kids copies of the Bible to read, because when it comes to good and wholesome nothing compares to a book that instructs us to kill disobedient children.
I remember going to a church retreat for a week in the mid 70s where they just pounded into us that modern music was sinful. I remember specifically that the song "Chevy Van" was sinful and encouraging us to have sex. I loved that song. LOL It was this kind of thinking, and some thinking and questioning on my part, that ultimately turned me away from the religion.
"If God wanted women to breastfeed, he wouldn't have created bottles."
PURE FUCKING GENIUS!
I always wondered why Hogwarts school made such a huge deal out of Christmas - decorations, trees, dinners, Yule dance etc. - considering that the bible says witches should be put to death!
Gage Blackwood Christmas isn't a Christian holiday to begin with, it's a pagan holiday and was originally called Yule.
Is there a cross or nativity scene as a decoration in Hogwarts?
I remember when I was 12 in Sunday School where they played a clip of a show much like the "backwards rock is EVIL" show, and they were playing the solo from Kiss' "I love it loud" saying "Who knows what evil messages are held within..." That day the seeds of my atheism was planted. Best part - One of our teachers was the brother of the lead singer of April Wine, a fairly big rock band at the time. Don't know how he kept a straight face through the lesson.
I spent a lot of time in the Army listening to voices on "fringe coms," Soviet tankers talking through throat mikes, etc., and I can't make any sensible phonemes out of these backwards records. I can only conclude that the preachers are lying.
Judith Sanders Same here; Soviet tankers with throat mikes! Yeah, the Ghost Hunters would get real frustrated with me when they played their "EVPs."
Preàchers lying? I'm shocked!
I remember my brother burning some Marvel comic collectible cards when we kids because he was told they were satanic.
Back then everything was satanic, Spiderman when he did his hand gesture to shoot web, the Chicago Bull's logo turned upside down, video games, the list goes on and on.
Looking back at it, I realize how absurd it was and how easily we as children were persuaded by others to do and think what they wanted.
Its nice to be free of the chains of superstition and religion.
i wonder what cristian hyms whould sound like backwards
or maybe a preacher doing a sermon
fornicate with choir boys, fornicate with choir boys, fornicate with choir boys,
Teddy Ruxspin and Carebears _ARE ACTUALLY_ evil, though
This really isn't about Harry Potter, more the general subject of innocent things being called evil.
Please stop!! My side and eyes are burning from laughing!! 😭😭😭 help, I’m bout to rub one out!!!! You have got to be kidding!!!
i love TTA podcasts! keep me busy/entertained at work!
A friend told me that she was giving her grandmother a ride just after getting her driver's license. Grandma was lecturing her about how the Beatlses were evil and she shouldn't listen to their music. She said she should listen to songs like the one that happened to be playing on the radio at the time. The song was "Norwegian Wood". My friend said she didn't have the heart to tell her.
You'll love this. Every time I used to find one of those fake 20s on the ground I would save it, then put something disgusting inside it (usually chewed gum) and put it in the offering plate on Sunday.
I worked in a private book store in Tennessee in the early 90s and, among other duties, I was responsible for doing the window display. I always loved when “ Banned Books Week “ would come around. I’d get a list of famous titles in the Banned Books designation. There was a used bookstore down the pike and I would go there to get my selections. I would then take the books and make a pile in the back parking lot. I’d spray the books with some lighter fluid and set them on fire. I’d quickly extinguish the fire and then take them to arrange a display . Now, I was careful to avoid burning the titles on the spine of the books, so they could be seen in the display in the window. I would make flames out of construction paper and put in the back of the display. Now I carefully placed on the bottom of the pile a copy of the Bible, which has long been considered by some traditions of being inappropriate for popular consumption by lay readers. I was always a bit worried I’d get fired if this ever became known. Yet I got nothing but praise for the creativity in the displays. Now this was in the buckle of the Bible Belt, but maybe I got by because this was in a college town. I never told my boss and that was okay with me.
When I was in grade school we had a commadore 64 and the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game, Pool of Radiance. I was too young to really understand the game but I loved watching my sister play it. One night my father, after just getting home from a men's group, took the 5.25" floppy disks and cut them into pieces in front of us. Ever since then I've looked for replacement copies of the game, thankfully they did re-release they whole collection a few times. Great show as always~
"If God wanted women to breast feed, He wouldn't have created bottles." That's it. I'm done. It's been fun, everybody but the experiment known as Humanity has ended in failure. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
favorite harry potter quote:" books can be misleading."
The more I look into the beliefs of influential people who have true power, or just the common person on he street....I don't want to live on this planet anymore. There is no hope for this species.
Man I am really enjoying these podcasts. Ultra awesome stuff.
Response from the drummer in a swedish christian rock band when confronted by a lady that said that the Devil lives in the drums!
-That's why I hit them so hard!
Cracked me up! :D
I graduated high school in 1986 as well. I remember the times when "backwards masking" was the big thing. I remember a youth camp I went to that had Alton Garrison who showed us what "messages" were in these rock songs "if you played them backwards". I was SO in to that. It was SO convincing to a young christian who had no actual clue. I wish I could find that tape [got a copy of it]. Hilarious stuff.
Yes, . . the "number 9. . number 9 . . . number 9". Good times!
I had a friend who went all beserk about Jesus. He just couldn't stop. I eventually lost my temper and, in a controlled way, told him that if he felt so passionate about Jesus he should preach to people who really needed it. Like those in Saudi Arabia. Silence followed.
So I listened to Christian radio growing up...and I remember Seth's voice...it's a damn blast from the past lol.
"on 100 fronts losing" When I was quite small I had thought that the war was over, and that we could all get on with being MODERN and EDUCATED. Growing up gave rise to the shock that the world was lagging behind my expectations. Still should be inevitable but what an annoyance..
Stairway to heaven? I have enough problems understanding that song being played forwards! Don't ask me to listen to it backwards.
There is wisdom, honor and sorrow in the Harry Potter series. Harry fights, at great cost to himself, evil. This is a GOOD example for kids to follow.
When I was a kid I was one of those kids who had to go in the hallway because the class was watching Harry Potter. I'm just happy my mom isn't so crazy anymore.
I wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter when I was a kid. I had to read them in secret. I was allowed to read The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings even though those had magic in them. Never understood why Harry Potter was singled out by paranoid, conservative parents.
My brother and sister-in-law received several items that depict dragons, including a puzzle, for their young daughters. They gave them all to me knowing I enjoy things of that nature. Among other things was a book related to the "Harry Potter Universe" that was easily worth $50-$60 alone.
All I can do is be their for my nieces to talk to when they do not feel comfortable talking to their parents.
During my brief time as a fundamentalist I got rid of my gorgeous deck of tarot cards with Russian-style illustrations because they managed to convince me that having that kind of thing around was witchcraft and would let devils into my house. :P I still regret throwing those out.From 33:30 Did anybody else notice that 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 on the list of "signs your child is involved with Satanism" could also be signs of depression? Funny, that.....
I used to have a Mormon friend who wasn't allowed to watch certain movies and read certain books. When people were reading all of these amazing books like Harry Potter and even the Hunger Games, she wasn't allowed to read any of them. As an atheist, I couldn't understand why they would bind her freedom like that, I thought it wasn't fair at all.
"We got Trouble! Right here in River City.....with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool! Remember the Maine, Plymouth Rock and Golden Rule!"...The Music Man
It's stories like these that make it so hard to not think religion is a mental disease.
When I was young, one of my friends wanted to join our Vampire the Masquerade group. Her mom, unfortunately, was extremely religious. I let her mom borrow my Changeling book to show that it wasn't Satanic, and when she gave it back she informed me that it WAS Satanic. She also told her daughter that we were getting together, undressing, and dancing in a circle during our tabletop sessions.
Adgee Emantsal
Yee gawds, makes me wonder what she'd have said had you taken her Mage: The Ascension or Wraith....ROFL.
Hell, Werewolf cosmology makes more sense than Xianity.
Harry Potter is not of the devil, but can turn you against god. I have friends who would leave their faith, and turn their backs on god, before turning their backs on Harry Potter.
SAME
Harry's easier to like than god.
My sister went to one of these seminars at her church and when she came home she took all of my nephews harry potter toys, posters, games, books and movies and burned them in the backyard, he was 8 years old! and cried he couldn't understand what he did wrong and why he was getting punished
Your southern preacher impression is dead on XD
Harry Potter is the most impactful story in my life. The Bible can't even come close. I feel so bad for my friends who weren't allowed to read it. I just feel so much pain knowing what they missed out on.
Father Ted, that's a good show! It's a critique on the church practice of moving rwody priests to different churches in an effort to cover up Church corruption. Father Dougal (I think thats how it's spelt) was my favourite because the only context we are given for his wrongs deeds are "The Black Wedding" and nothing more
When I lived in Russia there was a house-church there that we went to that was part of the Chuck Smith/Calvary Chapel franchise and they believed that the Teletubbies were of the devil! (That was when I still took religion seriously, although it wasn't religion allegedly, it was "a relationship with God").
Adam C spongebob was a no no in Calvary chapel too
On the subject of backwards masking, I had the 12" extended version of "Hole in my Shoe" by Neil, and it ended with a big crescendo spoofing the Beatles' "A Day in the Life", complete with the sustained piano crash at the end which lasted several minutes. I could just make out a tiny voice whispering backwards over the long ending, so I played it backwards over and over, straining to make out what the voice was saying, until I finally realised what it was: "Don't do that, you'll scratch the record".
Interesting you mentioned the modern day church and its music. I was the bass player for a mega church for awhile. One of the top players used for the THREE Sunday morning services, with nearly 8,000 in attendance. I was going through my eventual de-conversion [at that time] and was just hanging on because I DID like the music and people. I left when the leader said, "you play well, but you need to MOVE more, else we can't use you in the main sanctuary". Really!!
Seth's voice is so calming. Great for listening to before bed.
I remember going on a "youth group revival trip" and we stopped off at the boardwalk in San Antonio, TX. I bought my first Rammstein CD and was told (by my youth pastor) that their music would infect my brain and I would become like one of the gunman at Columbine! Insane logic...
Every time you talk about evil, your voice reminds me of Jack Nicholson in Witches of Eastwick... and it makes me laugh. Awesome topic
I remember as a child my mother told my brother and I that Harry Potter was "evil". Then I caught her reading it, and it was suddenly okay.
I remember at school we had this super religious woman who taught us religion - Catholicism and almost every lesson she tried to tell us to avoid Harry Potter, Pokemon, any cartoons/anime that have magic in it and I remember a lot of people in my class were disappointed because they liked dragon ball and were scolded for it.
Seth I laugh every time you do the Christian/church lady type voice. Man I have really been enjoying your show since I found it about a week ago.
I read my copy of the 4th Harry Potter book while at lunch at International Bible Society (IBS) a woman asked me what I was reading and so I told her. She never talked to me then, but turned to the person next to her and said, "I never let my children read THAT!" I missed my chance because I should have said, "and I never had to pick up my children at jail." It's a coming of age story after all.
+William Peterson To claim that it champions witchcraft is hilarious anyway. The magic in Harry Potter is never ascribed to any rituals or told to stem from any source like gods, demons or the female nature of the world.
It is no more devil worship or witchcraft, wikka or whatever you want than Halloween costumes or playing knights as kids makes you medieval worshippers.
The problem they DO have with such aspects of pop culture is that in the eyes of impressionable kids they are so much more exciting and fascinating than the eversame old boring bible stories and moralistic tales... You are not meant to invest any time or energy into being enthusiastic over such stuff when you could sit in bible lessons or sunday school and learn of the Jesus and how he loves you and needs your undivided attention.
My younger sister would not let her children read any of the Harry Potter books since her priest had told her that the contents were Satanic, that the spells were actually demonic chants. Neither she nor her priest had actually read the books. Having been allow to read fantasy books while growing up, I was puzzled. It was okay for her children to read "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", but Harry Potter was evil. I personally could not see the difference, but I guess her priest knew better.
"These Ninja Turtle fellas" lol ok.
I Heard a story about the ouijaboard which goes like this: This Group of friends were playing "The spirit in the glas." One of them asks where the devil is and the glas answers "In the closet." He/She goes over to the closet and opens the door.
That kid is in a mentalhospital now."
I guess it´s a pretty common story. But have you ever thought about the fact that these stories are Always someone´s cousins best friends uncles grandchild?
It´s never someone who says "It´s real I was there!"
When I was a christian I had an argument with someone who genuinly believed, that any music made with synthesizers is inherently demonic. And I was already producing Dubstep and Trap at that time, so I told him, that I made electronic music and simultaniously was a believing christian. He couldn't wrap his head around it...
I love how the advertisment on the right of the video is for me was a free psychic reading.
I can't count the number of times I've had some Christian or even an 'agnostic' respond to my vocal or written wish that religion would be eradicated; "What harm does it do?" I am always dumbfounded that anyone who is aware of the world around them and any kind of history would think religion is harmless. This show demonstrates that it is far from a simple set of beliefs that do nothing but offer comfort for the faithful. Ironically, religion is the evil that surrounds us.
Haha I remember that madness. When Harry Potter was rising in popularity, I was attending a Christian school, and you had to get a permission slip signed by your parent AND have the parent come in to buy a harry potter book at the book fair. The entire harry potter book set was kept in a locked bookshelf and was pushed down the hall, away from the library. People are silly.
“Shake hands with the bishop!”
I’ve never heard that one before, but it’s so freaking perfect!
"Albums" ... I still use that term on my music website (progfreak), I refuse to accept that it's dated or that anyone can date me ;-) long live the studio album!
It is truly sad that the mere inclusion of magic is enough to poison these people. The Harry Potter books are among the most morally instructive books ever written for children. I and very glad I read them to my son. He has learned compassion, responsibility, friendship, loyalty, social responsibility, courage, independent thinking, reaching out to wise elders in time of need, not judging people by superficial appearances, the importance of discretion, love, and honesty, from these books.
1:04:50 Well I'm from Finland and I'm starting to be very familiar with American religious culture. Though I still remember when I heard of Kirk Cameron and the Banana Man for the first time. Oh those innocent times watching Diamanda Hagan. By the way I'de love for you to have her in the show, both in and out of character.