Out of Their Own Mouths

An interesting article on the religious and supernatural implications of the Harry Potter series from eSkeptic reports this concerning witchcraft:

Other Protestant critics have been even less forgiving; a woman in the documentary film Jesus Camp said, “Had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter would have been put to death.”

Don’t people like that realise what they’re saying? That their religion is a barbaric relic of ancient superstition? And it is not just a relic of the Old Testament: it has only been a few hundred years since Christians were busily and self-righteously burning thousands of witches to death. For nothing, except being different, strange or unpopular.

Yes, most modern Christians are more enlightened (literally: the relative defanging of Christianity is an achievement of the Enlightenment, not the Church). But that is at the expense of the literal truth of the Bible as the reliable Word of God: and when you have to sacrifice the only actual basis of your beliefs – you’re on the slippery slope to total rejection.

Amen to that.