Passing Glance

Because someone loves me I ended up spending part of my day today looking up articles that propose to prove that the Harry Potter series is in fact Satan working through books.

Of course it's very difficult for me to believe books are evil. I've never been bitten by a book before...but I hear the letter Q can be quite rough when it's been drinking...

In all seriousness there is a lot of debate about fiction of any kind being moral. This post is not about that debate.

This post is about a scrap of an article that jumped out at me from the doomsday prophecies that have been flooding my mind and computer screen:


Lots of the emails revealed another problem. Many email addresses had words in them that were occultist in nature. Words like witch, poison, potion, cat, goddess, etc. were in the email addresses. This represents the large number of children and young people who are already involved deeply in the occult and the like.

I can perhaps see how a word like Witch could be considered occultist. Witches are often linked with the occult. At the same time I can make enough concessions to allow that Goddess could be irreversibly linked with Polytheistic Religions - and therefore could be occultist (If a is sometimes b and b is sometimes c then a could be c...and a train leaves Chicago at 4:35PM traveling east...).

I am less willing to allow that potion or poison are in fact occultists words at all. There is nothing occult about cyanide. And potion is a word that means any mixture...but I will concede that these two terms could in fact be used with a nod to dark or evil doings.

However! Though cat could also be linked to something occult I do not believe the use of it in an email address speaks to the evil and dark nature of the emailer. A cat is occult now? A cat? What? Why? Because it has four legs and goes mew? All shall look on the quadruped and despair! Cat is an occult word? Cat??? What if...god-forbid (and apparently He does) the girls name is Catherine? What do you think about your occultist cat now huh buddy? And if cat is bad we better darn well look out for worse words such as dog (which incidentally used to be the shape of an Egyptian God AND the specter of death in divination) or bird (Alfred Hitchcock anyone?)

Oh yes, all those evil people calling themselves cat are to be scorned and feared. The idea of a cuddly, warm, purring ball of fur is indeed a notion to be shunned by God-fearing (and they do) individuals.

You know what I say to that? Huh? Do you?

OH MY GOD KITTENS!!!

MEW, MEW, MEW!!!

(If you would like a full context of this article it comes in two parts:
Harry Potter And The Antichrist
The Truth about The Harry Potter Series)