"Double, double toil and trouble..." -- Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (Act 4, scene 1)

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Ned Flanders: [reading] Harry Potter, and all his wizard friends, went
straight to Hell for practicing witchcraft.
Todd Flanders: Yay!

[Ned tosses the book into the fireplace]

-- "The Simpsons"
( season 12, ep. 18, written by Matt Selman)

Hey, Fans of Sc-Fi/Fantasy!

And to all you religious right wingers out there, who think Harry Potter is evil and promotes witchcraft and Satanism and ... gum disease... and... poor posture...

Check it:

The Bible mentions...

Dragons, Witches, Unicorns and Wizards-- Oh my! Three of which show up in Deuteronomy:

"Their wine is the poison of dragons" (Deut. 32:33)
"There shall not be found among you... an enchanter or a witch" (Deut. 18:10)
"And his horns are like the horns of unicorns" (Deut. 33:17)
"And Saul had put away... the wizards out of the land" (First Samuel 28:3)

And let's not forget King Saul visiting a soothsayer, who conjures up the ghost of Samuel the prophet (First Samuel 28:7-25).
(No details about whether or not the soothsayer was played by Whoopi Goldberg)

Granted, most of these mythical creatures are mentioned in negative contexts throughout the Scriptures... but they're still mentioned!


If you're gonna take the Bible literally... take EVERYTHING literally.

So Bala'am's donkey talked to him (Numbers 22:28)... Maybe the donkey had the voice of Eddie Murphy.


Plus,
Moses had a magic wand way before Harry Potter:


"Take thy rod and cast it before Pharaoh and it shall become a serpent" (Exodus 7:9)


"And the Lord said unto Moses... Lift up thy rod and stretch out thine hand over the sea and divide it...'" (Exodus 14:15-16)
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