As it says in the link, it's the second book - which for some reason I can't remember the title of at the moment. It's the one with the basilisk - and she seems to be basing it more off the "looks" brought out by the movie than by the book itself.

*rolls eyes*

Yeah, Voldemort as "God" and "Potter" as the Anti-christ. Oh, boy.

"The Chamber of Secrets"

Wow...that really hurt my head. I mean, the prose style alone is enough to induce fits of paranoia and neurosis.

Her name is really 'Lurleen'?

I thought one of her points is so funny I have to mention it. Okay, so the clearly bad person Lucius Malfoy (we know believes in slavery and casual abuse of servants from the same book)but he's supposed to represent the Church giving the Bible to the 'common people' when he gives Riddles diary to Ginny. Now, we know he does this in full knowledge of what the book is, and with directly harmful intent to Ginny in specific and everyone else in general. So by extension, Lurleen is saying that the Bible is meant to be harmful to those who take it.

Or did Lurleen drive me insane?

Well, I knew the characters and quotes and situations were from the "chanber of Secrets"...but what I meant to imply was that thought I read a book called "The Chamber of Secrets", and "Lurleen" read a book called the "Chamber of Secrets"...and though both books had the same characters, words and events in them...

...we clearly read completely different books that bear no similarity to each other at all.

Obviously, Lurleen read one from an alternate universe where God is evil, the Anti-Christ is good, and the Bible mental poison.

But then, elsewhere on this site the "yin-yang" symbol is identified as a "satanic symbol".

I think that the problem (well, a problem) with extreme fundamentalists, is that they often try to hard to establish themselves as a group, but marking what they are not. Since they believe themselves to be a select few, it is important to recognize, that they are not part of the greater evil world. Therefore, anything that is madly popular, especially if it involves magic, needs to be denounced as Satanic.

This might not come as a surprise, though, when one realizes that much of the reason for the Mosaic Law, in addition to basic sanitation, was to differentiate the Israelites from the Canaanites. So, there is already a model for creating arbitrary distinctions. Also, it's just basic sociological in-group/out-group behavior

That being said, the part of me that was raised Christian would have to immediately refer to parts of the Bible in which witches are condemned and say that Harry Potter and other such works glorifying witches are not appropriate for Christian consumption.

Yes. they should stay far, far away from such things.

Even if they pray, trembling in fear, for guidance before reading the books and watching the movies, I think they should assume that if God gives them the go-ahead to do it for "educational purposes"...they should assume that they got their wires crossed and it's one of Satan's deceptions.

After all, Lurlene could not have possible had God's guidance on her adventurous forray throught the books...she encoutered SO MUCH MORE evil than I did. Somebody was guiding her alright...but it wasn't God.

I ask you...would God guide you through the book and take you to see sex with goats? I didn't see any sex with goats. None of the people I know who went through the books without the help and guidance of God saw sex with goats...

...and some of them apparently feel cheated.

Not being into goat sex myself, I'm just as glad that God isn't my co-pilot...but I guess whatever turns your crank.

Hey, I didn't see any goat sex! Her copy is much more interesting than mine.