John Hagee Says Harry Potter & Paganism Corrupting Our Kids, in Classic Right Wing Evangelical Hypocrisy

Right wing evangelical John Hagee says Harry Potter and paganism are corrupting our kids. Never mind the fact that evangelicals have a higher than average divorce rate in the U.S. Secular humanism isn't to be blamed for that statistic. Hypocrisy is. Many evangelicals treat their significant others like sh*t, objects to be dominated. I was shocked when Dr. Charles Stanley got divorced. It doesn't matter who filed for divorce. It happened and he is still the leader of one of the biggest churches in the Southeast. Has he been celibate all these years, or do they think we are so stupid as to look the other way. Hagee and his cronies would have you believe other wise -- do as I say, but not as I do. If the truth be told, Harry Potter doesn't teach children about witchcraft, as he alleges. It's pure entertainment and you have the option not to read the books or watch the movies.

John Hagee, like many right wing evangelicals, have hypocrisy oozing from their pores. He is the same guy who said God tried to destroy New Orleans with a flood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina because He hates gays and lesbians:

I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they are – uh, were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that Katrina came.

He also insulted Jews by saying God killed millions of them during the Holocaust. In other words, what Adolf Hitler, another mad man, did was ordained of God. Really?

God sent a hunter. A hunter is someone who comes with a gun, and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.

Yeah, the world is in a free-fall. A moral free-fall into the pits of hypocrisy emanating from the pulpits and television networks such as TBN. He should worry about the paganism coming from the pulpit. We have Juanita Bynum insulting the Lord by typing in tongues. What's that? That is A-OK in the books of the right wing evangelicals because they believe the general public is gullible enough to fall for their "jive talk." Seems to me that John Hagee pushing a deeper tolerance for hatred and divisiveness by attacking this country, made up mostly of Christians. In fact, he and his cronies are really the ones in a moral free-fall.

Is the Latest Harry Potter Movie from J. K. Rowling's Blockbuster Series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," Perpetuating Racial Prejudices?

My oldest son went to the midnight release of the latest Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," with his friends and he gave it four out of five stars. I have never been one to join the Harry Potter craze and I certainly never viewed it through racial lens. I came across an article in the Washington Post, written by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite and entitled "Harry Potter: Wizards and Racism," that focuses on the racial prejudices in the film. Ms. Thistlethwaite states that the use of "Half-Blood" in the title of the film/book specifically refers to racial mixing. She states that in Wizard society (like in human society), persons of mixed race heritage are often the subject of explicit racist prejudice. "Mud-bloods!" is another term for those who share the "blood" of both wizards and Muggles (humans).

Here's Rowling's point on "half-bloods." Wizards may do magic, but prejudice does not magically disappear in their society. Racist prejudice bedevils both wizard and human society. Rowling's use of the term "half-blood" to vividly evoke the damaging effects of racial prejudice in the life of some of her key characters must be highlighted, especially this week. This is the same week where the American people have been treated to the unseemly spectacle of conservative politicians using "racism" as a club to beat up Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic American woman nominated to the United States Supreme Court. These attacks on her, as illustrated but not limited to Senator Sessions' remarks, illustrate that her questioners have no insight into their own racial formation, and deformation, in a white-dominant American society.

I highly recommend that several of these Senators go see the Harry Potter film--and better yet, read the books where the racial prejudice by some in the wizarding community is horribly illustrated. "Generations of purebloods, wizards all--more than you can say, I don't doubt...a filthy, dirt-veined Muggle," says a Wizard racist whose negative attitudes toward racial pluralism have fatal and near fatal consequences for both Wizards and Muggles alike in the film and in the book.
The coming of age theme would not hurt the Senators either. My first reaction to seeing these wonderful young people and how they have grown from film to film was "wow!" They're gorgeous. And then there's dating. There's "snogging" (kissing) and there is a growing maturity about their responsibilities as young adults in what is effectively a war--and like young people living with war in Iraq or Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world, they see more death than anyone, especially a young person, should have to experience. Source: The Washington Post

After reading this, I had to ask my son if he saw the racism that the author is referring to? Of course, he said no, but I do see the point Ms. Thistlethwaite is making. We have a responsibility to eradicate our racial prejudices and misconceptions about people because of their ethnic or racial background. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done. Can we go back to the days when when we went to the movies, we did that just for fun and not worry about being politically correct? So, my parting question to you is do you think J. K. Rowling is sending a message of racial intolerance in her books?

Jamie Waylett, Harry Potter Film Star, Arrested After Cops Find Potfarm in His Bedroom

Jamie Waylett, a teenage star of the Harry Potter films, has been arrested after cops found a "goldmine" of sorts in his bedroom -- a cannabis farm in his bedroom. For Harry Potter fans, you will remember him as bullying Hogwarts School pupil Vincent Crabbe in the wizard movies. The cops swooped down on his home after a tip-off.

According to media reports, police first stopped him in an Audi car and discovered eight bags of pot inside the vehicle. Waylett and a pal in the vehicle were held at the scene on suspicion of possession.

Cops then raided the home the actor shares with his mom Theresa, two brothers and a sister — and seized ten mature cannabis plants valued at about $2,900. The plants were growing under powerful hydroponic lights beside the actor’s DJ decks and a PlayStation. Wow, I guess his Mom was oblivious to what was going on in her home. Maybe she was a pot smoker too. Anyway, this is a minor charge and certainly won't derail his acting career, if he still has one at least.