Why theists really hate Harry Potter

[Angrboda]

I don't know regarding the Onion article and the letter. I think it's more an example of a tendency to read and accept the things we read uncritically. At a recent discussion about "Fake News" I confessed that I tended to engage in a lot of uncritical acceptance of content from secondary sources, and don't spend a lot of time double-checking things, so I don't necessarily consider myself above the fray. It's more a symptom of the general overload that exists in a world where there is so much going on and our resources for coping with it evolved millennia ago to solve different challenges. I recently faulted Roadie for believing largely propagandic claims of conservative sources, but as noted, I doubt I'm immune from doing likewise. My only personal gripe is a tendency, common among creationists, of misrepresenting sources and particularly of repeating claims from secondary sources and claiming the primary literature as a source. That practice has become a breeding ground for error among conservative religious people.