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April 21, 2006

Teaching Evil to School Children

The School Board in Gwinnett County, Georgia will be spending the next two weeks deciding whether to ban Harry Potter books from school libraries after some parents complained the books are "anti-Christian." The problem is, according to the parents, is that the books teach "witchcraft, demons, murder, evil, evil and more evil."

Never mind that Christian parents love for their children to read The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings, both of which are full of magic, witches, murder, and evil.

Of course, these parents admit they haven't actually read the Harry Potter books. If they had, they would know that the books are all about resisting evil, fighting for good, being a true friend, and taking responsibility. All good moral values, right?

The offended Christian parents want to replace Harry Potter with the Left Behind series. As John Sugg editorializes:

[T]he violence in them borders on pornography. … I’d counsel that the Jesus I know would not, as LaHaye depicts, return to become the greatest and most sadistic mass murderer in the world’s history.

Interesting how twisted people's logic can become.

Posted by Becky at April 21, 2006 10:14 AM

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