> That reminds me of how some people didn't
realize that "The Screwtape Letters" was
meant to play devil's-advocate. This might be
even stranger than the Harry Potter
controversy in that the author was Christian,
the "advice" wasn't to people but to a demon,
and the readers were just "listening in," the
evil spirits recognize God and His powers,
and are eventually foiled by Him.
>
> Anyone else got stories of paranoid
interpretations of media?

No, but I really enjoyed that book. C.S. Lewis
is probably my favorite Christian author. And I
thought it was pretty cool when I did a report
on J.R.R. Tolkien my senior year of high
school and discovered that he and Lewis
were friends.

That reminds me...how can people condemn
Harry Potter and yet have no problem with The
Lord of the Rings? I haven't read any of the
Potter books, but it seems to me that Tolkien's
descriptions of sorcery, demonic creatures,
etc. would be just as vivid if not more so than
Rowling's. Would anyone who has read
Rowling want to tell me I'm wrong?

Gri"perplexed, befuddled, and
cornfoozled"shny