(February 9, 2016 at 7:28 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(February 9, 2016 at 3:25 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I don't have any problem with kids reading and enjoying Harry Potter, or any other such stories for that matter.
Kids should definitely be encouraged to read as early as possible (I myself was taught independent reading way before I started infant school). Giving their imaginations totally free reign should be among the top priorities of education at that age, if not number one. Shackling a developing, enquiring mind at the exact point at which it is the most fertile would, in a parallel universe in which a truly caring deity existed, be the single most heinous thing disqualifying someone from getting into heaven.
(February 9, 2016 at 3:25 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: The difference between those works of fiction and certain other stories, is that no one claims Harry Potter to be factual and based on real people and events.
No one - except the rabid, agenda-driven, mind-raping pulpit pundits who have never opened a book in their pathetic little lives, sadly.
Your lucky you don't have kids of your own! Do you not care about them reading harmful things? What about things that are extraordinary violent or pornographic? You'd let them read/watch them? Crazy..
Fortunately Harry Potter is neither of those things. I might permit it.. as long as they know witches and wizards are not ok in real life!!
