So Obama HAS read Harry Potter. - Democratic Underground

there goes the extreme Fundie vote.

it's FICTION! I think a lot of fundies can barely discern the difference between fiction and non-fiction. Like when they watch Fox News. :^)

I've read a news story a few years ago about priests and other super religious people who wanted Harry Potter books banned in schools and libraries that they believed the book taught a Wiccan religious point of view, with some saying it taught a godless view.

To them its not fiction. Haven't you heard the way they pray? Its like they are invoking the name of god for their own desires. Like they believe there is some 'godforce' power that they can tap into like its a magical force; like they are casting an actual spell.

My immediate family are fundies and while we have a no-god-talk policy, sometimes they get off a story or two before I hit my limit. My parents actually believe my dad gets good parking spots because he prayed for it and that my sister had a headache go away due to a "healing wind" (their words) from the tv when a fundie program was on.

...Harry Potter books as a shared activity.

He's just scaring them now!

Just one more sign that they are the ones who are the radicals and the fringe, rather than the mainstream. The fundies have been pushing a tyranny of the minority while Obama is going for the plurality that the Founding Fathers wanted rather than a simple tyranny of the majority.

So f*ck off fundies! Magic is cool.

She loves Harry Potter.

us that..we've had evidence of that kind of thinking around here when there were objections to our co-op selling Harry Potter.

Not only that..he remembers everything!

It goes without saying who the Slytherins are...

Endeared him to me even more - I'm a huge Potter fan.

CHENEY is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

And deep down, in the end, Malfoy had a good speck hiding somewhere in his heart.

I don't think McCain is evil at heart... just awfully misguided. Palin on the other hand... there is something really unsettling inside of her... and it is NOT something Christian.

The Lord of the Rings books are infallible? I've seen this from more than one fundagelical, and I don't get it. Of course, I live in a semi-rational world and I don't know that these types can be measured on the same scale.

They've had a McCain sign in their yard for quite a while. They also supported Man-on-Dog Santorum. Those folks have been wandering in the desert for many years.

Although the crutacious curse might be a bit too much.

???	Bicoastal	Oct-29-08 08:53 PM	#1
joke	uppityperson	Oct-29-08 08:54 PM	#6
The fundies hate Harry Potter because MAGIC is used in the story... never mind that	codjh9	Oct-29-08 08:55 PM	#9
bah-they're just a bunch of MUGGLES!	gypsylud	Oct-29-08 08:57 PM	#13
I thought they hate Harry Potter because of a lack of mentions of God	ShadowLiberal	Oct-29-08 09:01 PM	#21
Actually there is quite a bit of Christian symbolism in HP, particularly Book 7	five_horizons	Oct-29-08 10:27 PM	#26
They object because they really believe in magic	Nydari	Oct-30-08 12:37 PM	#34
In the infomercial, Michelle Obama says her husband and daughter read...	Eric J in MN	Oct-29-08 08:58 PM	#14
Ohhh, that was the part I missed.	Bicoastal	Oct-29-08 08:59 PM	#17
Sarah Palin is probally praying for him now...nt	mallOUf	Oct-29-08 08:54 PM	#2
yea, didn't she try to take Potter books off the shelves.	alyce douglas	Oct-29-08 08:59 PM	#18
Because they were right there with us up until now...	PermanentRevolution	Oct-29-08 08:54 PM	#3
Like it was ever an option	tekisui	Oct-29-08 08:54 PM	#4
Oh yeah... they hate Harry Potter, don't they?	eshfemme	Oct-29-08 08:54 PM	#5
Oooohhhh!! The 700 Club is gonna be all over this one!!	muntrv	Oct-29-08 08:55 PM	#7
Send them to Azkaban! I love Harry Potter! My daughters love Harry Potter!	Jennicut	Oct-29-08 08:55 PM	#8
Now I wish I could vote for him twice.	graywarrior	Oct-29-08 08:56 PM	#10
um	GoPsUx	Oct-29-08 08:56 PM	#11
It might get my RW mom's vote...	cynatnite	Oct-29-08 08:56 PM	#12
I thought of that when Michelle told	zidzi	Oct-29-08 08:58 PM	#15
Obama is Gryffindor material!	Rocknrule	Oct-29-08 08:58 PM	#16
And smart enough to be a Ravenclaw, too!	MANative	Oct-29-08 09:19 PM	#22
Hey! I like Slytherines! I'm so in love with Draco Malfoy... and so NOT in love with McCain	musicblind	Oct-30-08 12:34 PM	#30
I guess the rumors about him being a wiccan are true	fishwax	Oct-29-08 08:59 PM	#19
LOL... he never had the extreme Fundie vote to start with!	crossroads	Oct-29-08 09:00 PM	#20
He'll make a wonderful Minister of Magic. n/t	Withywindle	Oct-29-08 09:26 PM	#23
McCain is Voldemort...	libby	Oct-29-08 09:36 PM	#24
No, McCain is Malfoy...	damonm	Oct-29-08 10:29 PM	#27
McCain is no Malfoy. Malfoy is HOT!	musicblind	Oct-30-08 12:36 PM	#33
Palin most certainly is Umbridge but I don't consider McCain Voldemort	musicblind	Oct-30-08 12:35 PM	#31
why is it that they (fundies) all seem to think HP is satanic, and yet,	DisgustipatedinCA	Oct-29-08 09:39 PM	#25
Oh NOES!	cryingshame	Oct-30-08 12:25 PM	#28
My neighbor told her kids I was a bad mother for allowing my kids to read Harry Potter.	PA Democrat	Oct-30-08 12:32 PM	#29
What utter idiots. If I could cast a spell on people like that I would.	Jennicut	Oct-30-08 12:46 PM	#35
People who hate Harry Potter books wasn't going to vote for OBAMA anyway	Max_powers94	Oct-30-08 12:36 PM	#32