World Religions: Group Seminar

"Is Harry Potter and Twilight considered to be sacreligious?"

message: if anyone happens to go on here please leave a comment saying which "side" you will be on for the seminar debate also if you would like to discuss a certain question feel free to leave any suggustions as a comment! thanks :)

Overview

This seminar is going to try and answer the following questions:

• Is Harry Potter and Twilight considered to be sacreligious?
• Should these books be band or have "warnings" to parents?
• Does Harry Potter Promote Wicca or Witchcraft?
• Is the catholic religion against all fantasy gere of movies?
• Does the Golden Compass fall under the catigorey of being sacreligious?
• If the curch is against fantasy then what about The Cronicals of Narnia?
• do you think that it is the people that exaggerate these possiblities of movies being sacreligious?

The Chronicals of Narnia and how is supposed to be a Christian movie:

- kids travel to the diffeerent relm and everything thing is cold, unhappy, nothing is unheard (trees pass it on), aslan comes and seen as god, sacrifices himself for edmond who had sined and was under the white witches rein. then he cames back to life and proves that he is all powerful and saves the land and returns it to good order.

prince caspian

- lucy thinks that she sees aslan but because no one else believes her because they diod not she she second guess herself and dicided that they are right. becuase of this they must go through hard obsticals and go all the way around the mountain instead of following alsan (jesus). later aslan meets up with lucy and says that just because others do not believe does not mean that it is not true. you dont have to see to believe, you believe to see.

Group Members

• Rachel
• Deborah  
• Sarah  

Timeline

• recieve notes on the seminar topic: Thursday 15th
• Review notes and website info: between Thursday and Sunday  
• Seminar: Monday 19th

Website articals found on the seminar topic

• http://en.allexperts.com/q/Catholics-955/Harry-Potter.htm
• http://atheism.about.com/od/harrypotter/i/witchcraft.htm
• http://atheism.about.com/b/2006/10/07/harry-potter-books-to-blame-for-school-shootings.htm
• http://atheism.about.com/od/harrypotter/a/censorship.htm
• http://atheism.about.com/od/harrypotter/i/christianity.htm (this one says that it teaches the Chirstain Religion)
• http://atheism.about.com/od/harrypotter/i/immorality.htm
• http://atheism.about.com/od/harrypotter/i/women.htm
• http://atheism.about.com/b/2005/07/28/harry-potter-converting-christian-critics.htm (changing their minds)
• http://atheism.about.com/b/2005/07/05/pope-benedict-opposes-harry-potter-novels.htm
• http://atheism.about.com/b/2006/02/18/harry-potter-gay-icon.htm (WHAT?!?)
• http://christianteens.about.com/od/christianentertainment/a/harrypotterdeba.htm
• http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa080900a.htm
• http://atheism.about.com/od/harrypotter/a/censorship.htm