Having attempted to debunk God and not being one to leave well enough alone, author Richard Dawkins now wants to debunk Harry Potter.
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I’m not sure. Perhaps it’s something for research.
Chilling, what? Maybe he’s open to the harmlessness of fairy tales, but he’s already convinced that teaching children about hell is abusive. (via Books, Inq.)
I love this. Imagination is the home territory of Christians. Materialists should distrust it, they are on enemy ground.
Dawkins is such a scold.
I looked at the article, but stopped reading when I ran into this:
If Professor Dawkins said that, he is a nitwit. I don’t know of any parents, even parents of the most rabid of Harry Potter fans, who are bringing up their children “to believe in spells and wizards.”
I mean, children recognize make-believe.
But what more to expect from Dawkins, a man who “loves” the execrable books of Philip Pullman.
Roy, have you read Pullman’s books? They’re awful popular apparently. I remember a friend of mine hating what he read of The Golden Compass.