(February 7, 2016 at 2:45 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Just a random thought, if you were a wizard and lived in a land where wizards were common then you might not have seen Jesus as doing anything spectacular as far as miracles are concerned, walking on water, coming back to life, turning water into wine, wizards do most those things on an average week don't they?
At one point, I had a whole backstory of the history of wizarding and magic thought up about how magic could have evolved into the human species and given rise to many religious figures - but which also was a contributing factor the some wizards' attitudes of superiority to muggles because they not only could do magic, but those pitiful ignorant muggles actually worshiped as gods people the wizarding world knew were "just" wizards and that there were hundreds of thousands of other people who could do the exact same things as those religious figures so they aren't actually anything special.
Which then brings up the question of: if Jesus was just an ancient wizard with an evolved magical ability and not, as purported, the son of a deity, what might wizards be so in awe of that they would deem it worthy of worship? Would they see claims of a god as nothing more than a super powerful wizard? Does the magical world have a completely different mythology to muggles?
#nerdalert
(February 7, 2016 at 3:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: There are 2 bible passages in Harry Potter. They are both in the last book. She waited until after the last book came out to reveal that the whole story had a ton of Christian parallels.
You didn't have to wait until JKR to "reveal" the Christian parallels in the HP books - they're obvious.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
