Quote:Oh, I'm sure you understand what I meant, but I don't deny there was an intentional undercurrent of intentional tongue-in-cheekness there.
Okay, that hurt. My nose is now serving drinks - you have the choice of what I was just drinking, which admittedly is not much of choice at all.
Acyl wrote "Hell, my own family is an example. A good number of 'em are serious Christians. And they're also Harry Potter fans. They're fine with the concept of magic in fiction, because, well, that's fiction."
As a disclaimer, I do indeed go to church quasi-frequently, but I've also asked a pastor how many communion wafers I need to collect a whole Christ.
Certainly, I am being terribly flippant about a serious subject, but then I'm flippant about every serious subject, and if you can't confront an essential apparent absurdity, then what can you do?
In any case, the comparison of Harry Potter to religion can't be that far off. I mean, look at the fandom out there. It's a freaking cult. Maybe literally, in some cases.
As has already been proven, JK Rowling saying ol'Dumbies rides broomsticks is one freakin' firestorm of controversy within the fandom - much less outside it, in the mass market of people who don't take it nearly so seriously.
And to Bob: well, I imagine you'd need to build up to it somehow. Frame it. I dunno.
EDIT: Oh jeez, with Dumbledore being gay and all the eye twinkling he did when looking at Harry, my mind is like going into VERY BAD PLACES NOW.
-- Acyl